Best Ever Albums

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Applerill — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:58:48 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 07/14/2015 23:58

Okay, I thought I would take the chance to go through some Pitbull albums tonight, something I haven't done before.

I put on his new 2015 album Dale first, and it was pretty meh. But his 2014 album Globalization is a good bit more fun.

And then, with

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Planet Pit by Pitbull
He reached a level of stupidity that was absolutely transcendent.

To paraphrase a great feminist writer I know, this is a masterpiece in a very, very specific way. I don't know how to connect to the questionable sexual politics, but whatever Pit is endorsing, he's doing in such a perfectly fun way, without even any of the filler you'd expect from one of his albums. Definitely going on my 2010s chart for now.

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Facetious — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:36:49 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 07/14/2015 00:36

Applerill wrote:

So I'll start with something simple: What do you guys think of the new CRJ? The new Hilary Duff? What's your favorite Soulja Boy release

New CRJ: Haven't heard it except for I Really Like You and All That. Liked the former, hated the latter.
New Hilary Duff: Who?
Soulja Boy: Only heard a few singles, of which the only one I liked was Turn My Swag On.

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 19:19:26 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/13/2015 23:19

Muslim-Bigfoot wrote:

I don't know what world you live in

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

alelsupreme — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:21:28 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 07/13/2015 22:21

Applerill wrote:

one of them even argued that a Van Halen song was the best single of 2012 #-o

Van Halen ain't had the best song of any year.

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Applerill — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:45:56 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 07/13/2015 20:45

Muslim-Bigfoot wrote:

I don't know what world you live in but in the world I live everyone is dismissive of everything but pop.

To be fair, I haven't run into many full-blown rockists IRL since I started college. But I remember back in late 2012 when I announced that "Call Me Maybe" was my single of the year. A lot of my friends on social media were furious, and one of them even argued that a Van Halen song was the best single of 2012 🤡

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Muslim-Bigfoot — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:13:49 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 07/13/2015 20:13

I don't know what world you live in but in the world I live everyone is dismissive of everything but pop.

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

alelsupreme — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:59:38 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 07/13/2015 19:59

New CRJ is wheeeew.

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Applerill — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:31:18 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 07/13/2015 19:31

Skinny wrote:

This thread would work better if you didn't insist on antagonising others in the OP.

Sorry, I didn't mean the RYM part to a nudge or anything. I just was shocked at how many people listen to both Lawrence Butch Morris and Ashley Tisdale, and I feel like there could be some of that lying around here, too.

Anyway, I just became obsessed with this amazing Shakira album.

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Laundry Service by Shakira

Every song just feels so perfect, with the perfect mixture of sweet and sour in the music, vocals, and lyrics. I've loved several Shakira albums before this, but I never realized she could be this perfect.

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

revolver94 — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:25:09 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 07/13/2015 18:25

I think that part of the reason you have a lot of people who are as dismissive of pop as they are is because it's often harder to find pop albums that are consistent - it's just a single-oriented genre. Which is fine. The stylings of pop lend themselves to be heard in short, spastic bursts, rather than drawn out and developed over 50+ minutes. There's also the radio aspect, which clearly lends itself to individual singles as well.

To answer the specific questions: the new CRJ album is even better than her last, I think. It easily holds its own amongst albums from any other genre released this year.

I've only heard the new single from Duff, but I do like it!

Not familiar enough w/ soulja boy.

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Revolution909 — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:11:23 GMT

Author: Revolution909

Posted: 07/13/2015 18:11

Spice Girls were great.

Holler, Stop, 2 Become 1, Wannabe, Headlines, Spice Up Your Life... All great, happy tunes. 😁

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Skinny — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:03:51 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 07/13/2015 18:03

This thread would work better if you didn't insist on antagonising others in the OP.

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:48:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/13/2015 17:48

Applerill wrote:

or any other sort of pseudo-pop

Isn't Soulja Boy pop-rap?

Re: The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

meruizh — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:08:35 GMT

Author: meruizh

Posted: 07/13/2015 17:08

My problem with the kind of pop you are talking about, is that although i can initially love a song or even an album, the likes for it dissipate much much faster than any other genre. Maybe its the over exposure to it, but i tend to stop liking songs after a very short period of time.

Other than that. My current favorite song is Major Lazer's Lean On. Brilliant in every wAy.
Taylor Swift is my all time favorite pop artist.

Im digging A lot off Avicci lately. Weird kind of Edm-folk-pop.

The Pop (or if you prefer, "Based") Thread

Applerill — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:12:09 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 07/13/2015 15:12

Hey guys, a Mr. GraBaoski recently complained that the site didn't talk enough about his sort of music. So I thought I would help alleviate the problem by making a thread about pop music.

I've recently realized there's a huge poptimist subculture on RYM, where people worship at the feet of Soulja Boy and think "Stupid Hoe" is the greatest minimalist piece ever composed. It's great.

This thread is not for indie pop, dream pop, power pop, or any other sort of pseudo-pop that is already culturally accepted by rockists. That crap is already talked about more than enough on BEA.
EDIT: Actually, here's a good way to look at this thread: If you can imagine a 15-year-old boy saying "Why don't you listen to real music like _______", you shouldn't talk about _______ here.

So I'll start with something simple: What do you guys think of the new CRJ? The new Hilary Duff? What's your favorite Soulja Boy release