one love to maura but getting up in arms about this immensely benign and dopey shit as being “racist, classist, sexist, and homophobic” is more a sign of spending too much time on facebook (and nyc) than the inherent evils of mac lethal
dude, yer autotune the news hobby horse is getting worn but since you need to be reminded: the difference is that they wrote their own material, created actual melodies and did a solid job of it. the get low cover is honeydrenched bullshit.
iatee otm tho.
they were also white kids saying “shawty” in a T-Pain voice a lot
that’s still not inherently ‘racist’
sd,shouldn’t you be more offended that they are now listing “youtube oeuvre” as a end-of-year list entry? i thought that was deeply offensive to you.
they were also white kids saying “Shawty” in a T-Pain voice a lot WITH T-PAIN
hilarious comedy having nothing whatsoever to do w/race
autotune the news is just awful fwiw
they were also white kids saying “shawty” in a T-Pain voice a lot
― some dude who likes to say “wigger” a lot, Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:18 PM
sd,shouldn’t you be more offended that they are now listing “youtube oeuvre” as a end-of-year list entry? i thought that was deeply offensive to you.
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:19 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink
::shrugs:: that’s like a loosely connected series of posts w/ a number on them, not a ballot in a poll, doesn’t really bother me
lol amon
t-pain and autotune are like objectively absurd, goofing on them doesn’t have to have much to do w/ race anymore than a kanye joke or whatever
have never seen autotune the news tho, I’m sure it’s dumb
amon typed THAT WORD, now he gets to wear a scarlett W forever too
Cant help but notice that you are kneejerk conflating a lot of good and bad shit based on people’s skin color and social strata
no way, vindicated by the SCARE QUOTES
i am sure that those 2 autotune the news creeps are deeply injured by our sniping of their art while they roll around in their big piles of money
Was not aware strawmen even needed money but ok
i don’t know anyone’s social strata, and tbh i am not really into automatically branding any lol white people rapping/autotuning thing as racist either, i was just saying they’re not THAT far a cry from karmin, etc. but that ‘bedroom intruder’ thing being one of their big calling cards is pretty sketchy imo.
yes a bunch of wites condescendingly recording black music in an overtly white style has not much to do w/race—its the entire joke! the main offense is prob that theyre doing a never funny in the first place joke thats been beaten into the ground for the last 25 years, theres too some extremely entry level rockism happening, but its also def obviously racist—overall its just the worst
imo every white musician that does a cutesy melodic cover of a rap song should be forced to change their name to Dynamite Hack
Dayowhite Hack
Tumblrwhite Hack
I’m not getting the sense they’re doing it for lols, they probably think their ‘get low’ sounds really good. I didn’t get that they were nec mocking something.
srsly dude
I blame Travis Morrisson for bringing this trend back around for the new generation of indie kids.
Fuck, i’d never seen that Jackson Foote thing before today. Fuck.
yes a bunch of wites condescendingly recording black music in an overtly white style has not much to do w/race—its the entire joke!
hi dere entire history of bluegrass, rock and pop
every generation gets the texts from bennett they deserve
yeah that girl sweetly singing “til the sweat runs down my balls” was definitely just exploring the melodic possibilities of the lyric for purely musical reasons
as opposed to th dude who originally sang it
history’s been repeating itself every since elvis presley sang “lol u a hound dog shawty”
hi dere entire history of bluegrass, rock and pop
every generation gets the texts from bennett they deserve
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:32 AM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink
why dont you go and listen to autotune the news for a while champ yeah shhh s’ok
resisting urge to start posting Brokencyde youtubes here
How is it that this thread is still top of the board? Happy holidays butthurt season.
Do you know what ‘texts from Bennett’ really deserves? Oblivion.
lol @ Coop
the amazing thing about mac lethal is that it took him 10 months to think of ‘cook with me now,’ weird al would be appalled at that kind of turnaround time
Do you know what ‘texts from Bennett’ really deserves? Oblivion.
― M. White, Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:34 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
25 years of human history has proven that this shit wont just go away, it needs to be forcefully oblivioned, the reckoning begins today...
in internet time thats like 5 years xp
coops, just cuz your awareness of music doesn’t extend past 1950 doesn’t make it so
go listen to some butterbeans and susie dogg shhhh mama don’t ‘llow no easy riders round here
that’s what i’m saying, it took him a long time!
and i was agreeing!
totally forks butterbeans and susie dogg, the entire history of bluegrass rock and pop, awesome theory
christ forks my stupid elvis post wasn’t saying i think everything STARTED with him, stop being so condescending
25 years of human history proves exactly nothing
hey you go to war w/the info you have
lol, neither of you know who i’m talking to and you’re both flexing your pecs to popping
conversely youre embarrassed cause you started this thread
yeah, it really went nowhere huh
lol @ thinking the “autotune the news” shit is offensive in any way other than not being that funny
anyways, good luck working out who’s racist and who’s not based on their youtube history; i got minorities to oppress
yeah, it really went nowhere huh
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:54 AM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink
you are so terrible at this
dude, i’ve been trolled by DEEJ
do you understand: DEEJ
step ur game up.
you are not being trolled, youre being an idiot
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” – Mark Twain
idgi mark twain who am i suposed to argue with
Humility is one of your better qualities, eh?
yes, i am the best at humility
sorry im catching up on this thread, did forks really just argue that slavish covers of black records by white bands in an era when black musicians couldnt play in the same clubs as white musicians in some cities is the same thing as white teenagers doing winky these-lyrics-are-so-dumb covers of rap music
“Only the shallow know themselves.”—Oscar Wilde
xpost
haha max that is a little oversimplified there re: the first half of your comparison
sorry im catching up on this thread, did forks really just argue that slavish covers of black records by white bands in an era when black musicians couldnt play in the same clubs as white musicians in some cities is the same thing as white teenagers doing winky these-lyrics-are-so-dumb covers of rap music
y’see, it’s all about predefined “roles” that we have placed on everyone in society, and if you step out of that role, then you are probably a racist
like i get where you are going argument wise but uh the motivations for early rock and roll are a little more complicated than you are making them out to be xpost
yeeeeeaaahhhh im not super worried about oversimplifying things in a thread where tumblr whites are being compared to elvis
idk if those are really tumblr whites
well tumblr whites are making a little less money than elvis did i hear so yknow choose your poison i guess
aggh wait why am i on this thread
I don’t know what tumblr whites is but it sounds like a dryer setting.
they’re more youtube whites I think
Doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?
nope
wait are u really arguing that the intents and motivations of race-record covers in the 1950s are indistinguishable from these siccening internet whites?
*pops pecs in tumblr whites*
im nearing my forget coop its ilxtown threshold but obvs max otm you must be fucking joking people
Guys! Guys! Hey, I’m really the only arbiter of all things white here. I mean, none of you people are even related to me afaIk.
(siccening?)
black/white, all are welcome on the information superhighway!
I fcuking hate you ppl for making me listen to Autotune the News btw.
not even close max—im saying that yer making value judgements re: what kind of racism is more problematic and you seem to be siding on the idiots on youtube are the worst position vs yknow black people not getting paid for shit they wrote so
also OH GOOD A RACISM THREAD so really we can stop now, i just thought your dismissal was a little too pithy and supportive of the idea that white peeps in the 50s were just trying to bring that great R&B to the masses because they cared maaaan.
texts from boonepat
just to be clear my dismissal was not intended to be an accurate reading of race and the music industry in the 1950s
yeah sorry, i just get all aggro about that whole thing because of the creeping prominence of that particular revisionist version nowadays
sobering commentary from PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE
now I feel bad for distracting from this threads true intent which is to clown forks
Have we delved enough into gender politics yet? Arguments about suburbs? Feel like we could make this the ultimate ilx thread if we try.
or we could just make fun of your username
arent tacos the worst? also athiests are jerks
tbh we already covered display names upthread, but be my guest
Have we delved enough into gender politics yet? Arguments about suburbs? Feel like we could make this the ultimate ilx thread if we try.
sorta feel it is closer to creating an ilx constitution by piecemeal outlining the crimes & misdeeds involved in posting
oh boy this again huh guys awesome
like it took a month to shoehorn a rehash of the Nina Gordon/Straight Outta Compton thread into the sandbox and you’re calling Mac Lethal slow
most ilx of all tho is the wandering eye rollers
“IM WORRIED ABOUT COOP”
hah
who got this
he seems sad
well he was reading this thread
sometimes youre just not in the mood to hang
there is nothing outside the text
lol
what happened to the lols
this thread used to be about the lols