Awwww nuts!
Awwww nuts!
wiiiiiiiipeout?
It was stuck to the beat.
Yes, but I'm impatient and usually skip to the instrumental/synthesizer part at the end.
I also like Congratulations quite a bit, but I don't like any of their other stuff so maybe that makes sense?
V to the IZZAY.
NBC: We comedy.
"George Bush Intercontinental airport", I quietly corrected at the TV.
Okay, I have a theory about hipsters.
Mellow music = mellow opinions.
I felt like I was being rebellious in rejecting Bon Iver, but apparently a lot of people agree with me.
HA! I literally told my girlfriend (who had never heard of Bon Iver) this fact just as i scrolled to this comment.
@avclub-cd01e5786d65f27654ca570edef28c69:disqus @zebbart:disqus Agreed. "Hipster" was just an updated version of the "unlikable cool kid" archetype; the "jocks" of the 00's, if you will.
I blame the overuse of the "hipster" moniker. Skepticism of popular music used to be a critical virtue*, and now it's dismissed out-of-hand.
Good God, yes. I just relistened to the trilogy this weekend and it's better than I even remembered.
Whenever Monster comes on random I always skip to the Minaj verse. Same thing with Pink Matter on Channel Orange, which I listen to exclusively for Andre 3000's verse - the only redeeming part of a track that's otherwise just filler.
Andre 3000 turned Pink Matter from filler to actually-pretty-awesome.
I don't think the article is about Frank Ocean, but using Frank Ocean to open up a discussion about how terms like "classic" and "hype" affect critic's and individuals reception of an album. At least that's my interpretation, and I think that's a perfectly reasonable and important discussion to have.
You:Frank Ocean::Me:Bon Iver
Good article. I liked Channel Orange from the get-go, but that was at least partially because I can't stand most pop music today and am curious when something I enjoy makes it mainstream. But I like it in an of-the-moment kind of way, not in an all-time-classic kind of way (a similar album: The Love Below back in…