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Kendrick Lamar Complex: "To p---- A Butterfly isn't a conventionally enjoyable record"

Started by boyz n the suburbs, Nov 3, 2015, in Kendrick Lamar Add to Reading List

  1. FreeAgent
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Nov 4, 2015
    that last bit...is a little insane.
     
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    :lmaooo: now everyone starting to see this
     
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  4. Brubbels
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    Nov 4, 2015
    I like GKMC. TPAB is crap and only "liked" by people who want to convey they are sophisticated or something. Pretentious BS.
     
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    u just said his last good song was swimming pools the single before the album was released. So u do like GKMC?
     
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    Nov 4, 2015
    this came out after swimming pools


    no good?
     
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    Nov 4, 2015
    Lol @ trying to expose the media echo chamber while wholeheartedly switching sides to the forum echo chamber of hipsters who quit f---ing with TPAB as soon as they heard others f---ing with it. Saying it isn't concventionally enjoyable album is just a pretentious way of saying you dislike it while offering literally no explanation as to why. A critics job is to thoroughly explain their opinion and the author utterly failed to do that at every point concerning the album and instead said "it's not enjoyable" over and over as if that somehow served as a passable substitute for logic and well-reasoned points of view
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

    Nov 4, 2015
    Article would have been much better if he wasn't trying to just use his piece as a medium to discredit Kendrick and thr majority of critics (y'know, the ones who actually explained their thoughts)
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

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    Lol this is seriously just the laziest comment to make about music ever and the article was founded on it
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

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    Because when it comes to sheer enjoy ability, that's subjective all the f---ing way, and at that point what the f--- are you doing as a journalist just spewing out things you like and dislike as if that makes for interesting writing.
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Nov 4, 2015
    point went way over your head m8
     
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    Nov 4, 2015
    Call it what you want but it's true. Big letdown from an artist like Kendrick especially considering GKMC is a classic.
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

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    "I disliked TPAB and that must mean everyone who says they like it is faking it"
     
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    Nov 4, 2015
    Too bad we don't have a way to measure 'enjoyablity' and if we did I don't think everyone's meter would read the same
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

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    If it's a provably true thing then by all means show me how you objectively measure "enjoyability"
     
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

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    Go ahead fam bust out the ruler or whatever instrument you need I'll wait
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Nov 4, 2015
    nah. the guy who wrote this article fawned over the album when it came out. this latter piece is about how lots of music critics failed in their efforts to engage with it and threw praise at it from afar. it's about the press, not explicitly about the album.
     
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    Nov 4, 2015
    Why can't people just let people enjoy the music they wanna enjoy? Some will call this great, some won't.
     
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    Nov 4, 2015
    i find this rly interesting, and wonder if it can be extrapolated to the ways critics in general (or at least music critics) respond to art while battling against a deadline. at least in print, in the 70s, pauline kael had a few days to process. i wonder if the internet is forcing critics to groupthink... it just so happens tpab is guinea pig here, perhaps rightly so

    remember when people were fawning over American Hustle?
     
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