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  1. 1. Which band made the bigger cultural impact?

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

Yeah this song and album rule (in my opinion)

it's weird because i like this kind of music. when tegan and sara or metric or best coast do it, i eat it up. i just can't get over hailey as a little girl and her band as a silly kid band. if you sent me a RAR of the album with a fake band name in the tags, i'd prolly love it.

Posted
1 hour ago, daveyjones said:

this one?

it's just a rerun from MTV circa 1983.

This is a song, not an album—but yes, this song is great. I think “rerun from MTV” is a bit disingenuous considering it’s nowhere near as referential as a lot of the 80s revivalism going on in this particular year. Have you listened to the rest of the album?

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1 minute ago, Nasa said:

This is a song, not an album

yes, i just grabbed the first single that came up. and yes, i've listened to the whole album. “rerun from MTV” was me being snarky; it's a joke, NASA. as i said above: "it's weird because i like this kind of music. when tegan and sara or metric or best coast do it, i eat it up. i just can't get over hailey as a little girl and her band as a silly kid band."

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Just now, daveyjones said:

yes, i just grabbed the first single that came up. and yes, i've listened to the whole album. “rerun from MTV” was me being snarky; it's a joke, NASA. as i said above: "it's weird because i like this kind of music. when tegan and sara or metric or best coast do it, i eat it up. i just can't get over hailey as a little girl and her band as a silly kid band."

Yes, no need to explain to me that it was a joke, lmao. I saw and responded to your post before reading the rest of the conversation.

What’d you think of the rest of it?

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Posted
1 minute ago, Nasa said:

What’d you think of the rest of it?

okay. just okay. nothing like best coast or metric great, imo. maybe it will grow on me. it's just super hard to get past the little girl / little kid band hangup i have about paramore. i mean when she was 18 i was 30. yuck.

Posted
17 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

okay. just okay. nothing like best coast or metric great, imo. maybe it will grow on me. it's just super hard to get past the little girl / little kid band hangup i have about paramore. i mean when she was 18 i was 30. yuck.

Yea, plus they were completely manufactured and put together with her obviously being the main piece and focus. I can’t get behind shit like that. Some don’t care, I do. Call me a snob if you want 

Posted
19 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

i mean when she was 18 i was 30. yuck.

Good attitude to have about potential sexual partners; not so great re: music.

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Posted
1 hour ago, daveyjones said:

okay. just okay. nothing like best coast or metric great, imo. maybe it will grow on me. it's just super hard to get past the little girl / little kid band hangup i have about paramore. i mean when she was 18 i was 30. yuck.

I'd give it another go. Lyrically she was dealing with depression and divorce, I've never been a fan before than record but I absolutely loved it. Grew on me like a fungus. Fake Happy, Rose Coloured Boy, Caught In The Middle, Idle Worship... Fucking beautiful album tbh. 

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1 hour ago, daveyjones said:

okay. just okay. nothing like best coast or metric great, imo. maybe it will grow on me. it's just super hard to get past the little girl / little kid band hangup i have about paramore. i mean when she was 18 i was 30. yuck.

growing up with Paramore and not enjoying them until this album renders my experience with it different. but like Kay said, i’d consider giving it another go for the reasons she cited.

do you tend to listen to and enjoy music whose band members are in your gender and age demographic? not being able to get past listening to Paramore because Hayley Williams was a young girl once is kinda weird to me.

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1 hour ago, Diddy Faplord said:

Yea, plus they were completely manufactured and put together with her obviously being the main piece and focus. I can’t get behind shit like that. Some don’t care, I do. Call me a snob if you want 

the label’s original plan was to turn Hayley Williams into a Top 40 pop singer, but she resisted because she wanted to play alternative rock music with a band and show they could write their own songs together. she also met the guys who she later formed the band with through a homeschooling program and befriended them in vocal lessons and songwriting sessions...does that read as “completely manufactured” to you?

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2 minutes ago, Nasa said:

the label’s original plan was to turn Hayley Williams into a Top 40 pop singer, but she resisted because she wanted to play alternative rock music with a band and show they could write their own songs together. she also met the guys who she later formed the band with through a homeschooling program and befriended them in vocal lessons and songwriting sessions...does that read as “completely manufactured” to you?

That’s one way to spin it 

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Look, @daveyjones, that single is alright the rest of the album is not great, not bad, middle of the road. It's alright for the back ground at someone's house or car or something but outside of that, you're probably not gonna get in to it.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Patient #48273 said:

Good attitude to have about potential sexual partners; not so great re: music.

i'm trying to explain my bias as best i can. i'm the first to admit it's a bias.

Posted
1 hour ago, Nasa said:

do you tend to listen to and enjoy music whose band members are in your gender and age demographic?

i would not say particularly. but i will admit it's quite difficult for me to enjoy musicians who are quite younger than me, regardless of gender identity. most of my peers report the same. it's just something that happens when you get older. check back with me when you're in your 40s, NASA.

Posted
1 hour ago, Diddy Faplord said:

That’s one way to spin it 

It’s not a spin. That’s what actually happened. Do you want sources?

18 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

i would not say particularly. but i will admit it's quite difficult for me to enjoy musicians who are quite younger than me, regardless of gender identity. most of my peers report the same. it's just something that happens when you get older. check back with me when you're in your 40s, NASA.

Makes sense—I was just curious. I’m not saying it’s bad or anything or an invalid music experience—I just hadn’t heard of it as a reason before for someone to struggle to enjoy music, that’s all!

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Posted
4 hours ago, Nasa said:

It’s not a spin. That’s what actually happened. Do you want sources?

Makes sense—I was just curious. I’m not saying it’s bad or anything or an invalid music experience—I just hadn’t heard of it as a reason before for someone to struggle to enjoy music, that’s all!

Well, Zac stated in his statement on his blog that the band indeed was a manufactured product of a major label, that the albums only was publicly released by Fueled By Ramen for street cred and that Hayley being the only member of the band being signed to the label.

"The band was in the dark the whole time. After many meetings between Hayley, her manager and the labels they decided to sign her to Atlantic Records. We didn't understand why Hayley was the only one signing the contract since we were told this was a 'band,' but we were too young to grasp all of this. ... Next thing we knew we were having a signing party for Hayley."

I mean, it’s not pretty..

 

To the album discussion; I’ve been a fan since the beginning but the last album didn’t do it for me apart from the lead single, I just couldn’t get into it. Hayley is the best female vocalist in the genre imo, the video when she’s recording still into you gives me such a big smile every time I see it

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Posted
8 hours ago, daveyjones said:

i would not say particularly. but i will admit it's quite difficult for me to enjoy musicians who are quite younger than me, regardless of gender identity. most of my peers report the same. it's just something that happens when you get older. check back with me when you're in your 40s, NASA.

I'm not saying you're wrong (I won't know for another decade), but as I've gotten older, I've found that I've become more open-minded about listening to musicians who are younger than me.

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Nah I don't like Paramore. Only good song they've ever done is Misery Business in my opinion.

Prefer FOB and I ain't the biggest fan of FOB either.

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