Y'all at this point anyone who claims they can accurately predict any non trivial thing is selling you something. No one knows shit. We're living in the Disinformation Singularity, every day is a tornado of chaos, and these mfers are out here saying they know how this or that will impact the election, or one of the wars, or Tesla stock prices, or ANY fucking thing at all?
Just do your best, ride the waves, try to paddle the right direction, and don't believe smoothly confident prognosticators
@caravan@mrcompletely I said this earlier this week, but folks forget how trash the East seemed compared to Western Conference teams all year. That was more my reasoning than an in-depth matchup analysis.
Many people are saying the Jerry Garcia Band is better than the Grateful Dead. More and more people are saying this, and JGB has been getting attention and has been doing very well.
My question is: How can the Grateful Dead be the Greatest American Rock band if they aren’t even the best American Rock Band with Jerry Garcia?
Nobody makes a similar argument about TAB v. phish.
Therefore, once again, I am correct: Phish is the Greatest American Rock band.
@maxellxlii90 Nobody who spends any serious amount of time really listening to the Dead and JGB actually prefers the latter. I’ve never met a serious fan who holds that opinion. Maybe it’s my bubble?
Kendrick always had better flow but Drake has producers, pace, and beats to make you run through a brick wall.
Kdot is weirder, which would be a plus in any other genre of music but rap, which I like straight-on, hard, & boom-bap, because I grew up on 90s East Coast rap.
Kendrick is more authentic & angry in these diss tracks. He's vicious, honestly, maybe too much. Drake seems like he's putting on airs (and he is, I mean... DeGrassi).
@mrcompletely That's a fair assessment and I will have a tough time not seeing Drake as the “Ed Sheeran of rap" going forward.
I think this has been fun, but I watch from a distance. Best part has been the immediacy and back-and-forth. 8 songs in a week; that's an album these days. If this thing was contrived in advance (i.e., they end the beef by releasing all the tracks as a joint album or something), it will be very disappointing. Kdot certainly does not need Drake, unless for motivation.
@brucy@chris The price was $15 and it was 1996 and acoustic looping was sort of new, at least to me. I paid it happily, but it was 2 sets and his soundboard guy sometimes sang backup vocals from the board, if I recall correctly.
@mielcarz I have an irrational loathing for Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, and CCR. Can’t even explain why, and I recognize there’s a whole lot of worse music out there, but those 3 acts make me want to jump out of my skin.
@BEK97@mrcompletely@caravan@justinbruce@chopaganda@jessay@drewphish You guys aren’t giving pop production enough credit. Taylor could sell it out and take over Vegas for 2 months and if she and her team put the effort into it that went into Eras (I just saw the movie, but could tell) she’d kill it.
@mrcompletely@caravan At Jay-Z pre-pandemic. Crowd hyped at ticket time waiting for house lights to dim. Beyoncé walked across the floor of the arena to the VIP near the soundboard. The room went silent in about 5 seconds and stayed silent until she sat down. 15,000 people watching one and she wasn’t near the stage. She was breathtaking. I’ve never seen someone who was not performing command any room the same way and I will never forget it. 15,000 all rendered mute, in a slow motion instant.
@caravan@mrcompletely My wife's oldest friend has been Gloria Estefan’s personal assistant (technically, she's Creative Director at Estefan Enter.) for 20 years. Travels w/ her, etc. She's met EVERYONE (Obamas, popes). Says both Taylor and Beyoncé are among the nicest celebrities, but their lives are very weird. 2nd time they met, Bey remembered my friend’s name and a stupid story about her dog. Bey has someone on staff take notes on her interactions w/ folks and remind her like a President.
Give It Time is the love and light, surrender to the flow, uplifting anthem a certain other hamband songwriter I love has been trying to write for 15 years.
@aburtch I have some theories. But here’s the first thought I had to your inquiry. If you want to write compelling lyrics about surrender, elevating your soul, and a higher power for good, you write a chorus about turning up the song on the radio. It’s poetic but relatable, which makes the tune soulful and authentic. In the alternative, you could take a more direct approach and write Soul Planet.
@aburtch@mrcompletely Trey needs an editor because his ADD is out of control. I get it. I've got that ADD thing too. The good news is he is not paralyzed by his constant thoughts. He's learned to dump them out, but he cannot stop creating long enough to get the distance and perspective necessary to edit.
@mrcompletely@aburtch Kerouac was mind blowing when I was 19, but I’m halfway ashamed to say so was Ayn Rand at the time. I was a kid athlete but I’m glad that sort of lonely selfishness didn’t stick.