this whole compilation is full of '08 indie cover songs its very good… blogging will never die #gossipgirl
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over the past week i listened to this entire album a couple times. it’s very relaxing
charli is the only thing that makes pc music tolerable to me
What does mean “pc music”?
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the trendy nostalgic music genres 2010-present have consistently failed to engage me in any meaningful way. 99.9% of vaporwave i’ve experienced fails to rise above its sampled source material and fails to offer any discernible “critique” of anything. similarly disappointed in various other -wave genres. pc music struck me as a kind of ur-sincerity which honestly just folds back into being ironic and is obnoxious for that reason. this probably seems crotchety, idk. i try so hard to enjoy newer music but most of it just rings hollow. i can’t find visionary musicians as easily among the more recent artists, but curation means they are trivial to find from a decade or more ago.
that said i do enjoy ariel pink a lot.
trap music is life.
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right but what about hannah diamond
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yeah I never really found pc music any more interesting than the sound design they used - all the rationalizing around its “messages” always ended up in some weird post-poptimist quagmire because music critics couldn’t really handle just enjoying something that contained pop structures
I think charli xcx manages to channel all of the weirdness around the actual sound design of the music into something that can be appreciated outside of a ironic/not-ironic binary. the fact that the track I posted features carly rae jepsen is not a coincidence - carly rae jepsen is probably one of the most earnest mainstream pop stars out there, so having charli xcx wrangle her in for a collaboration makes me think that she knows what she’s doing in a really significant sense
I feel like producers (in the sense of literally producing beats) kind of ran the show in the mid '10s, and the balance is shifting back toward having someone wrangle producers into doing their best work now that anyone can just upload stuff onto soundcloud. like the balance has shifted from music critics being tastemakers to actual musicians being tastemakers because music criticism in its traditional form was much too slow to deal with the explosion of music that got released
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Please someone help define this term
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look you’re just outing yourself as an old for not knowing this
(it’s a really hard to search for internet music label run by a guy who i think is probably a douchebag?? but i just get that vibe
i’m really just here for HD
HD is wonderful)
Anyway,
pc music is a collective that has artists like a.g. cook and SOPHIE and girlfriend of the year and QT and they do essentially deconstructed pop music
a lot of it is pop music stripped down to really bare elements and they try to see how much they can get away with while still keeping things poppy
the collective is a little oneohtrix point never-esque in terms of its approach to sound design, which is interesting because they manage to cover both ends of the spectrum with SOPHIE trending more towards the Garden of Delete-esque stuff and most of the other artists toward the r+7 stuff
this is a really bad simplification of the sound but it’s all I got atm 
I went to a show that a bunch of them played and it surprised me how correct I was in my prediction on how it would go
Thanks for the lowdown. From context, it just sounded like it was some new term for modern pop music and included like, Taylor Swift and the Chainsmokers and whatever. All this heavily electronic stuff that dominates Top 40 stations now.
that’s actually apple music
BYEEEEEEEE
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I’d been working on a song for the past couple weeks that I described as “kind of American Sharks-y” but then I saw them last night and realized that I’d completely ripped off the main riff from them so oops throw that one out.
Anyway, here’s the song I stole the riff from
now i know White Guy Plays Guitar is nobody’s favorite genre but: listen to this White Guy Play Guitar for 9 Minutes
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i once pissed off my entire friend group in high school ca. 2001 during a conversation about “authenticity” because i said i’d rather hear someone open mic with a laptop than an acoustic guitar, in any context, 100% of the time
still true tbh, despite how much less true it is today than it was then
(that is to say, acoustic guitar person only loses less to laptop person because laptop people have betrayed me so often)