watson503
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^^^This.
DanTravis62
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I swear, people just get told what to hype up because of the fucking algorithm and repeat it and infinitum like lemmings
Anal de Pastry is just one of the worst examples of it - it's like the dickheads at pitchfork were like "let's see if we can convince the rubes that a live drummer jamming with some talentless dickhead is some kind of deep meaningful artistic expression - that would be fuckin hilarious, right?"
It physically pains me that they are correct, and they can get people to big up almost any garbage imaginable
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VonBonfire
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It's all controlled. A band like that would have a very hard time even landing a local gig at an establishment who pays nothing but the door and even they would understand that most people will leave or won't come at all. But here they are in the international spotlight. Probably the finest example of music industry fakery ever devised.
DanTravis62
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That's what makes me think this is some kind of industry "half prank" that the executives at media companies are throwing at the wall to see if people will eat the slop.
It's so stupid and obnoxious that it seems intentional
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VonBonfire
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It won't really work. Bro country has an element of listenability (ok not really but it's bland like cheerios). Trash rap has the thug lifestyle factor. This just has that, as you said, music elite pedophiles rape children in run down eastern bloc tenements feel to it. It's 100% by design, staged.
DanTravis62
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It 100% sounds like the aural equivalent of John Podesta's living room 'artwork' it's unbelievable
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VonBonfire
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Yeah, the pedophile vibe all the way. Everything "viral" is staged. Remember the Oliver Anthony stuff? Half assed nobody from no place suddenly achieves worldwide fame with one mediocre song. Can't remember where I read it but all of a sudden he was demanding 100k per performance and the venue he had booked was all bent out of shape, LOL. Where is he now? Another rich man from richmond.
DanTravis62
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Yeah, the pedophile vibe all the way. Everything "viral" is staged. Remember the Oliver Anthony stuff? Half assed nobody from no place suddenly achieves worldwide fame with one mediocre song. Can't remember where I read it but all of a sudden he was demanding 100k per performance and the venue he had booked was all bent out of shape, LOL. Where is he now? Another rich man from richmond.
It's so stupid that this is where the "music" industry is at.
Like it literally does not matter what the music itself is, its all about the machine choosing you to get likes and clicks and spamming social media
This is the most concrete proof possible that people will accept ANYTHING. Any slop thats tossed in front of them.
Tonelover
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The butt hurt is strong today.
phillybhatesme
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VonBonfire
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It's always been controlled but now you have to be part of the cult to have that profile level. Not sure if you're familiar with Tom McDonald....I don't like his stuff but he had more digital streams than the biggest names in rap. They refused to credit him because the same people controlling the companies control billboard. You aren't going mainstream without being a part of it i.e they get dirt on you on video, and then can control everything via blackmail.
DanTravis62
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I am familiar. It's just incredible to me that they are this brazen with the grift.
Like, I could shit out a band like anus pustule with a full record in like 10 days (although I would probably go insane trying to write music this bad)
There are bands that play shit like this (or BETTER!!!) in every city every weekend, in every dive bar, in every poor neighborhood across america
And that is not REMOTELY an exaggeration
The fact that this is the bleeding edge of "trendy" music is honestly really fucking depressing
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VonBonfire
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Well, it's all an illusion that will come crashing down one day. I just try to focus on my stuff and not worry about it because none of that is real. It's all contrived and tbh to have that level of notoriety puts you in a place most people don't wanna be, which is why the biggest names are all jacked in the head and miserable for the most part. It's why every actor is forced into women's clothing, for example. It's why the entire anus pro-teen imagery is purely occultic.
Al Chapo
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The guitarist is a friend of a friend. I'm inclined to think he's not part of a cult or group of elites controlling the industry, crazy, I know. These dudes were swinging hammers on construction sites 2 years ago in Quebec, and somehow stumbled into the .01% of the world to dictate how all music hereafter will be 
. Or it could have been that deal with Satan, obviously. No way they're just 2 dudes making music that caught on, that kinda stuff has never before happened.
. Or it could have been that deal with Satan, obviously. No way they're just 2 dudes making music that caught on, that kinda stuff has never before happened. Yet you continue to grind away for stamps while they pad their retirement? How noble of you. I can't for the life of me understand being so personally bothered by something I didn't care for. To each their own...
DanTravis62
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Ah yes, getting picked by the music industry, what noblesse oblige of them to grace us with their obnoxious bullshit
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VonBonfire
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A friend of a friend. My old plumbers son played bass with Chick Corea let me tell you all about his personal life.
TheBiggestJerk
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With all due respect to their art, it’s a gimmicky schtick. Most of the civilized music we have today is not microtonal and that in itself makes it akin to listening to a foreign language. Most of us musicians speak 12 tone octaves. My wife is a card carrying BTS fan with at least a $100G in collectible memorabilia and I can’t listen to it… because most is in Korean, which is not the language of my heart, and thus it just doesn’t reach me. I appreciate it but I have a struggle warming up to it. Same is true for microtonal stuff… it sounds out of tune and strange, and due to the lack of lyrics there is absolutely zero timelessness to their music, because there’s nothing to sing along to. I’m 53y/o and I have a vast knowledge of music and an epic collection, and very open minded, but this has no appeal. It’s another fad that will be here to fans gone tomorrow.
BABMusic
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The interesting thing about microtonal music is that it tends to confuse people with absolute pitch. I have this ability and there's 12 very distinct feelings to each of the notes we are used to hearing. When you split them up between each note, it ends up sounding like both of those notes it is in between, rather than a unique tone. I suspect music wasn't really meant to be microtonal because of this reason. If you look at the color wheel in art, there's 12 colors and there's 12 music notes. I find it interesting that human senses and perception has this number 12 in both vision and hearing.
phillybhatesme
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Wonder how people with synesthesia experience microtonal music.
TheBiggestJerk
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Thelonius Monk had similar reasoning.
Just like food, our tastes are acquired and developed. I didn’t grow up eating vegemite or marmite and thus I think it’s absolutely disgusting. I have no taste for it. I also didn’t grow up listing to middle eastern music so I don’t really develop a taste for that either. My mother was a professional pianist with the Denver symphony, and therefore my ears are very sensitive to in and out of tune.
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