Animal Collective, Fucking Dicks
I am, from time to time, struck with the fear that I will, one day soon, suddenly become blindingly irrelevant. Culturally, musically, intellectually. I see it happen to people around me all the time. Ask the average person on the street what their favorite music/book/piece of art is and, almost without fail, it will be something they listened to/read/gazed at longingly between the ages of sixteen and twenty four. And I hate that. I bordered on fucking retardation in high school and didn’t know shit about shit until I was at least twenty four.
Average people listen to cool stuff when they’re twenty and then become idiots. I know, it’s like saying the sky is blue. But what about super cool, interesting culturally engaged folks? When do they die out? My uncle (check here and here) was beyond fucking cool in the 70’s and 80’s but now he’s a didactic bully who hasn’t listened to anything new since 1997 (and that was just luck).
I think it’s finally happening to me.
Let’s get to the goddamned marrow of this shit. I hate the new Animal Collective record. It’s boring, droney, shapeless, drum circle, hippie bullshit. I saw an interview with them last year and they talked about how much they loved the Dead…I squinted my eyes at the computer, sipped my coffee and closed the window. And now this Merriweather malarky.
The Internet is Bella Swan and Merriweather Post Pavilion is Edward Cullen and I want to throw up.
It’s he beginning of the end, you guys. My cool friends can point to this day, January 19th, 2009 as the day that I started to not matter (my friends that aren’t as cool as me, I’ll still be cooler than you because, whether you like it or not, you’re getting lamer everyday too). And I’m blaming it all on Animal Collective. Fucking dicks.
dude, you lost me when you used fucking Twilight references to make your point… srsly?
That’s how lame the AC/Internet love affair is. Super lame.
Although I loved Twilight.
No, the new animal collective record just blows (and this is from a 24 year old hip as fuck graphic designer attending the raddest design school in the country and living in fucking Echo Park, LA, who is also very modest about how goddamn cool he is).
Also, 88% on 2008. Don’t forget. Except… Santogold is for average people.
Did you see this hold #1 for like 2+ days on hypem?
http://hotbiscuits.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/mashing-more-than-you-since-1987/
You can’t even trust the internet anymore..
what the fuck just happened to your design
trying new things.
These buddy icon things are ridiculous. I didn’t even know I had one.
I disagree entirely. The new Animal Collective album is spectacular - “Bluish” and “My Girls” are unhateable!
And I also disagree with that Birdplane thing - that was poop
What is it with this obsession with being cool ? You and Matatas should get some therapy about it…
And I love the new layout !
The magenta is awesome, isn’t it?
Oh, and the Animal Collective sucks harder than a cheap whore.
the animal collective backlash begins now.
oh man i’m average.
I’d like to quote High Fidelity’s Rob Gordon:
“How can it be bullshit to state a preference?”
J., remember when disliking popular obscure music was cool? Always. It just means you’re one step ahead of the indie infants.
I, on the other hand, am teaching bilingual kindergarten and no longer have time to listen to music that is not Selena or Enrique. Really. This is my life. I go to bed at 9 p.m.
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J. Beaman is practically unemployed, living is brazil and loves the new Antony & the Johnsons record.
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