I find Pop-GAF utterly baffling (RANT)

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Messofanego said:
With so much good content on Radio 4 or 5 (Kermode :3), I feel weird turning to Radio 1. It's like "what's going over here..." but it all sounds the same to me.
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I'm a film student and Kermode is my god, but I guess I'm still young enough that Radio 1 is my go to station for music (I'm 22). With that said, I do listen to Radio 2 now and if I want music more often than not I just go with the iPod in my car...
 
Mumei said:
I prefer non-pop music. I like Pop-GAF more than I like pop.



First, you know that there is more to interpretive ability than just "hitting the notes." Second, you know that merely "being able to sing the notes" is well beyond the technical ability of many, ahem, vocalists in pop music. And third, her point was that in many cases they aren't responsible for those choices in delivery and interpretation because those choices are producer-driven. I think Fugu probably overestimates how common this is, but I don't think it is completely without merit.
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I mean, I agree. Just playing devil's advocate, because I think we wade into murky waters when we try to nail down what is and isn't an acceptable level of interpretive ability one must possess to be considered a musician. I'd rather just call them shitty musicians.

On that note, I think a good example of what Fugu is implying would be Rihanna's Diamonds. She is LITERALLY mimicking Sia's every vocal tick and abandoning her own unique interpretive style on that track. The laziest Pop vocal I've heard since Britney on the S&M remix.
 
I browse pop gaf almost once every week. Sometimes the gifs are funny, sometimes they're not. The only consistent thing is the ridiculously unfunny way everyone there writes. Every time I say to me that i'll never again read the pop-gaf thread because of that, but the next week I'm there. No, I don't even like pop music, I don't know why I do this to myself. It reminds me of soccer fans having "discussions" where they're just yelling at each other, using scores as the best arguments to defend their favorite teams. When their team is losing is like "they'll come back, I know. They did it in 1976, they can do it again!". Instead of scores, pop gaf use charts and itunes sales. Instead of the crappy team that hasn't win a single game in years, there's Christina flopping and their stans swearing she'll come back.

At first, I though pop-gaf would have more interesting discussions, even if I don't like that music, there's something about the pop industry that I find utterly fascinating. It's a disappointment that discussions never go into something a little bit more interesting. I have to admit that when pop gaf is funny it's really funny, but most of the times it's just 2 full pages of reposts, always the same gif and the magical quote I've seen like a million times there: "You tried, tho". I can't help but think that. Pop-gaf, recently you've been unfunny. You tried, tho.
 
Nlroh said:
I browse pop gaf almost once every week. Sometimes the gifs are funny, sometimes they're not. The only consistent thing is the ridiculously unfunny way everyone there writes. Every time I say to me that i'll never again read the pop-gaf thread because of that, but the next week I'm there. No, I don't even like pop music, I don't know why I do this to myself. It reminds me of soccer fans having "discussions" where they're just yelling at each other, using scores as the best arguments to defend their favorite teams. When their team is losing is like "they'll come back, I know. They did it in 1976, they can do it again!". Instead of scores, pop gaf use charts and itunes sales. Instead of the crappy team that hasn't win a single game in years, there's Christina flopping and their stans swearing she'll come back.

At first, I though pop-gaf would have more interesting discussions, even if I don't like that music, there's something about the pop industry that I find utterly fascinating. It's a disappointment that discussions never go into something a little bit more interesting. I have to admit that when pop gaf is funny it's really funny, but most of the times it's just 2 full pages of reposts, always the same gif and the magical quote I've seen like a million times there: "You tried, tho". I can't help but think that. Pop-gaf, recently you've been unfunny. You tried, tho.
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I guess someone missed the new music reviews and recommendations posted in the last few days.

You tried tho.
 
Nlroh said:
I browse pop gaf almost once every week. Sometimes the gifs are funny, sometimes they're not. The only consistent thing is the ridiculously unfunny way everyone there writes. Every time I say to me that i'll never again read the pop-gaf thread because of that, but the next week I'm there. No, I don't even like pop music, I don't know why I do this to myself. It reminds me of soccer fans having "discussions" where they're just yelling at each other, using scores as the best arguments to defend their favorite teams. When their team is losing is like "they'll come back, I know. They did it in 1976, they can do it again!". Instead of scores, pop gaf use charts and itunes sales. Instead of the crappy team that hasn't win a single game in years, there's Christina flopping and their stans swearing she'll come back.

At first, I though pop-gaf would have more interesting discussions, even if I don't like that music, there's something about the pop industry that I find utterly fascinating. It's a disappointment that discussions never go into something a little bit more interesting. I have to admit that when pop gaf is funny it's really funny, but most of the times it's just 2 full pages of reposts, always the same gif and the magical quote I've seen like a million times there: "You tried, tho". I can't help but think that. Pop-gaf, recently you've been unfunny. You tried, tho.
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Yes, Pop GAF has been a bit hit and miss recently because there have been no good major alberm releases for going on a few weeks now.
 
A Pretty Panda said:
Where does Michael Jackson stan on pop gafs favorite artists list
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6 feet under everyone else.

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the random diva attitude accompanied with a random reaction gif does bother me when it's in the middle of an otherwise productive conversation. Some users seem to be here just to post those "UH-HUH GURL" gifs and do nothing else.

Sometimes it bothers me and sometimes I find it funny. Other than that (wich arguably is a competent complaint to have), nothing but respect for what pop-gaf wants to listen to. MIA and Santigold shit on yo faves tho.
 
Foliorum Viridum said:
I'm a film student and Kermode is my god, but I guess I'm still young enough that Radio 1 is my go to station for music (I'm 22). With that said, I do listen to Radio 2 now and if I want music more often than not I just go with the iPod in my car...
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Radio 6 is the best music station for students. None of the bollocks music of Radio 1 or commercial stations, whilst still keeping it healthily modern. It also has the best DJs, who aren't in love with themselves and generally seem to know what they're talking about (Lauren Laverne <3).

Unfortunately, it's digital only.
 
godelsmetric said:
Yes, Pop GAF has been a bit hit and miss recently because there have been no good major alberm releases for going on a few weeks now.
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I completely disagree.

I mean, just in the last week or so we had Leona's excellent Halcyon review, my review of RED, and my writeups on Diplo, Elle Varner and ZZ Ward. Not to mention Aguila's impeccable OP and the hordes of snippets and rumors that get posted DAILY.

And we're only just a little over 1000 posts into OT3.

There's plenty of music discussion there for people who actually care to look, and not just pretend to look for the sake of padding an uninformed post.
 
Im not crazy about pop music as it is today. But fun music is fun.
Pop music is designed to be enjoyable and catchy.
Some people just want to listen to fun music and dont care to be "challenged" by an artist. To some, music is just a fun thing to pass the time.
Nothing wrong with it.
 
royalan said:
I completely disagree.

I mean, just in the last week or so we had Leona's excellent Halcyon review, my review of RED, and my writeups on Diplo, Elle Varner and ZZ Ward. Not to mention Aguila's impeccable OP and the hordes of snippets and rumors that get posted DAILY.

And we're only just a little over 1000 posts into OT3.

There's plenty of music discussion there for people who actually care to look, and not just pretend to look for the sake of padding an uninformed post.
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Sis it was shade.
 
Green Scar said:
Radio 6 is the best music station for students. None of the bollocks music of Radio 1 or commercial stations, whilst still keeping it healthily modern. It also has the best DJs, who aren't in love with themselves and generally seem to know what they're talking about (Lauren Laverne <3).

Unfortunately, it's digital only.
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With Moyles finally gone (I had been listening to him for the last ten years, pretty much, before he got the breakfast gig) there's now not many DJs I can say I honestly like on Radio 1. :(

I doubt I'll stick with it for much longer.
 
Foliorum Viridum said:
With Moyles finally gone (I had been listening to him for the last ten years, pretty much, before he got the breakfast gig) there's now not many DJs I can say I honestly like on Radio 1. :(

I doubt I'll stick with it for much longer.
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I actually kinda like Nick Grimshaw, but he's not very entertaining... Moyles was often crass and obnoxious, IMO, but he woke you the fuck up and was worth at least a couple of laughs each morning.
 
A Pretty Panda said:
But Pop Gaf likes Whitney too.
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Whitney's talent transcends life and death.
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Nobody's fave is coming close to touching the queens hem.

Some stans think their fave is the second coming.
But until she can get through a live performance....
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That being said...
Beysus Giselle Knowles-Carter
is coming for their wigs, so they might wanna sew them tracks in extra tight, or perhaps use weave glue.
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And as for Lazy Haha...

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I hear she's becoming more aclimated to her weight gain.
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I'm trying to wrap my head around how that stupid OP could spawn a 6-page thread. Is it all popGAF posts fighting over whose fave is the bestest?
 
What an amazing post, Robido.

Educate them
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Green Scar said:
Seriously. This isn't all that other fluff, Monae's some next-level shit.
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Yeah, really. Metropolis and The Archandroid are perfection.

And I thought she'd release a new album this year. In fact, she had plans for a double album. But I haven't heard anything new surrounding it :(
 
Second said:
Yeah, really. Metropolis and The Archandroid are perfection.

And I thought she'd release a new album this year. In fact, she'd release a double album. But I haven't heard anything new surrounding it :(
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Following rock music has taught me that if an artist talks about working on a new album in the 18 months after their last one came out, they're talking out their arse and it'll take way longer than they said. This is another example of such.
 
Green Scar said:
Following rock music has taught me that if an artist talks about working on a new album in the 18 months after their last one came out, they're talking out their arse and it'll take way longer than they said. This is another example of such.
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See also: Superior Robyn, while Inferior Robyn Fenty sharts out alberms on a near-fortnightly basis.
 
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