I dunno, I think the smartest thing Joel Little did with that album was pretty much let the instrumentation GTF out of the way. If it had been produced like any other pop song, Lorde would be fighting against big ravy supersaw stabs and bouncy basslines and a ton of main-room style dance production. With a big…
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What bugs me about this dude's critique is he calls out Lorde for basically not understanding that the images of these rappers she's critiquing are a reaction to their backgrounds and pop culture…without really researching her background or pop culture.
Oh, I got that, I just thought it was a) ugly b) terribly cliched.
I concur. Everything about the movie felt oddly calculated.
Fun fact: the tortured bishop is Bishop Swithun of Winchester, later St. Swithun, Not much is recorded of his actual martyrdom, so I guess being tortured to death by Vikings is good enough.
Ironically the date I was misrememebring was the date the wall fell.for some reason I pegged it as 86 instead of 89.
The whole "Mother Russia" part of D/MR just SCREAMS "1980's" - the whole cold war panic, soviet chic, all that stuff (although the album came out after the fall of the Berlin wall, if memory serves).
There's a generation of women, now in their 40's who spent their teens looking like Pat…and are still trying to spend their 40's looking like Pat.
6 to 12 hours of Skinny Puppy without a break? Shit, I called that "college."
Morpheus.
Yeah, as a fan of middle eastern music I was really hoping for at least something a little more obvious. I hear a little in the melody (I think it references something famous, but it's not clear) and it doesn't have that distinct here's-a-quartertone maqam sound (but since they're on western instruments they could…
The female leads in Coupling? REALLY? You mean Jane, who's a sex-obsessed ditz for all but one episode (which kind of redeemed her as a character until they walked it back in the finale), Sally, who spends three seasons whining about Patrick and his Junior Patrick and fretting about her age and appearance, and then…
I think the real question is "why didn't Annie Gooddamn Leibovitz fix some of these issues in-camera before shooting the picture?"
Must kinda suck to be Jenna Louise Coleman at the end there…"hey, look, you're still in the shadow of Karen Gillan!"
Well, okay, sure.
"There are few people who can rap like they did in 1986, and as one of them…"
"oh that whole Silence/River Song conspiracy thing that we went on about for two seasons? That was just a splinter group. We're cool now. And that stuff that defined season one was their fault. Moving on…"
Well, there's that BIIIIIIIG one, but he's used smaller ones in non-arc episodes too. It bugs me because it's basically the laziest form of time-travel writing.
Close, Romana II. I liked the Manic Pixie Time Lord thing before it was cool.