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Anna Jane McIntyre's avatar

ok, wow, i am not sure if i would have listened to the Rihanna track if you hadn't mentioned it...such an interestingly odd poppy mashup and love the murky-undergroundy-wordlessness riff sections between her singing

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Ben Cardew's avatar

I know! It's bonkers!

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Anna Jane McIntyre's avatar

yes a bit loony tunes for real lol >.< as is a mashup of dance music underground sounds and super poppy autotune poppy pop hahahh - i don't even really know what to think or feel....that these sounds are happening in the same space and time track?!...Almost blasphemous...eeek, my brain was just going "what the heeeeeeeey is this and am i onboard?"...which is quite snooty of me pffffff, as for me this track dallies with sounds on either ends of the music philosophy continuum for i and i. My first thought was that this song conditions young listeners to normalising music salad appropriation mashup glitch stews of "radical freedom of the people anarchy at its best (yes yes)" and "capitalistic spoon fed cutey cutey blindinig paf aspartame pop (nay nay)". I guess it's good to play with musical legacies, nothing is sacred? Yeah, well i am no music journalist lol so not sure how to express this all. Mmmmmm anyhow good to be challenged though! thank you

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