Red Mosquito

verb_to_trust wrote:I have also had close to zero exposure to Hamilton and believe I am the better for it.

epilogue wrote:Seasons of Love!

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:I heard a four second clip from Hamilton on NPR in 2016 and it was one of the most skin-crawling experiences I've ever had. I'm still trying to delete it from my brain.

To think I used to feel bad that our tastes didn't overlap more.

Mickey wrote:

Jorge wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:As I see it, the difference between Annie and Beck is that Annie has never presented St. Vincent as her authentic self. At least, not that I've seen -- or rather, not to a degree that feels like a con or disingenuous. She's constantly in character and she's always up front about that. Who her character is changes with each album. Each album is a play. And Annie is cast as a different lead in each new play. It doesn't come across as forced quirkiness to me. It's theater.

In interviews when she drops the latest St. Vincent character and lets Annie talk, she comes across as intelligent, thoughtful, curious, and nerdy in an endlessly endearing way. At least to me. She's guarded and protected, sure, but I can relate to that too. And I don't have the added pressures/problems of being a public figure. Or an attractive woman in an historically dangerous, masculine space.

I...honestly can't think of a description that would make me less likely to listen to her music.

Well it wasn't meant as a selling point, champ. You're either into it or you're not.

Though, I will say, of all our taste differences, this is the one that surprises me the most. I get why you don't like a lot of the artists I like. But I'm genuinely surprised that you don't like STV.

Ah well. Tis what tis.

I actually don't dislike St. Vincent, though I haven't had any interest in her project since Strange Mercy (which I really enjoyed!). But I find the whole "on this album I'm actually a character" thing nauseatingly twee, far too close to musical theater and generally poorly conceived. I have no taste for it, whether it's being done by Kanye West or David Bowie.

That makes sense. And I think draws the first concrete boundary between our tastes.

I'll use this as an opportunity to state the Unpopular Music Opinion that musical theater is fucking great, and the boring "I hate musicals" take makes me roll my eyes just as much as "I listen to everything except country and rap." Some of the greatest songs ever written are showtunes

Please take your disgusting desire for narrative out of my affect-driven art form, thanks.

Mickey wrote:*Whisper-singing* Two thousand twenty one...

spike wrote:

Mickey wrote:

Jorge wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:As I see it, the difference between Annie and Beck is that Annie has never presented St. Vincent as her authentic self. At least, not that I've seen -- or rather, not to a degree that feels like a con or disingenuous. She's constantly in character and she's always up front about that. Who her character is changes with each album. Each album is a play. And Annie is cast as a different lead in each new play. It doesn't come across as forced quirkiness to me. It's theater.

In interviews when she drops the latest St. Vincent character and lets Annie talk, she comes across as intelligent, thoughtful, curious, and nerdy in an endlessly endearing way. At least to me. She's guarded and protected, sure, but I can relate to that too. And I don't have the added pressures/problems of being a public figure. Or an attractive woman in an historically dangerous, masculine space.

I...honestly can't think of a description that would make me less likely to listen to her music.

Well it wasn't meant as a selling point, champ. You're either into it or you're not.

Though, I will say, of all our taste differences, this is the one that surprises me the most. I get why you don't like a lot of the artists I like. But I'm genuinely surprised that you don't like STV.

Ah well. Tis what tis.

I actually don't dislike St. Vincent, though I haven't had any interest in her project since Strange Mercy (which I really enjoyed!). But I find the whole "on this album I'm actually a character" thing nauseatingly twee, far too close to musical theater and generally poorly conceived. I have no taste for it, whether it's being done by Kanye West or David Bowie.

That makes sense. And I think draws the first concrete boundary between our tastes.

I'll use this as an opportunity to state the Unpopular Music Opinion that musical theater is fucking great, and the boring "I hate musicals" take makes me roll my eyes just as much as "I listen to everything except country and rap." Some of the greatest songs ever written are showtunes

Please take your disgusting desire for narrative out of my affect-driven art form, thanks.

this is painful. music can be a lot of things.

Mickey wrote:

Jorge wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:As I see it, the difference between Annie and Beck is that Annie has never presented St. Vincent as her authentic self. At least, not that I've seen -- or rather, not to a degree that feels like a con or disingenuous. She's constantly in character and she's always up front about that. Who her character is changes with each album. Each album is a play. And Annie is cast as a different lead in each new play. It doesn't come across as forced quirkiness to me. It's theater.

In interviews when she drops the latest St. Vincent character and lets Annie talk, she comes across as intelligent, thoughtful, curious, and nerdy in an endlessly endearing way. At least to me. She's guarded and protected, sure, but I can relate to that too. And I don't have the added pressures/problems of being a public figure. Or an attractive woman in an historically dangerous, masculine space.

I...honestly can't think of a description that would make me less likely to listen to her music.

Well it wasn't meant as a selling point, champ. You're either into it or you're not.

Though, I will say, of all our taste differences, this is the one that surprises me the most. I get why you don't like a lot of the artists I like. But I'm genuinely surprised that you don't like STV.

Ah well. Tis what tis.

I actually don't dislike St. Vincent, though I haven't had any interest in her project since Strange Mercy (which I really enjoyed!). But I find the whole "on this album I'm actually a character" thing nauseatingly twee, far too close to musical theater and generally poorly conceived. I have no taste for it, whether it's being done by Kanye West or David Bowie.

That makes sense. And I think draws the first concrete boundary between our tastes.

I'll use this as an opportunity to state the Unpopular Music Opinion that musical theater is fucking great, and the boring "I hate musicals" take makes me roll my eyes just as much as "I listen to everything except country and rap." Some of the greatest songs ever written are showtunes

Please take your disgusting desire for narrative out of my affect-driven art form, thanks.

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:Seasons of Love!

I was actually referring to the Hamilton Aaron Burr song but this really makes my case for me.

Jorge wrote:I very intensely dislike him too, for what it's worth

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:Seasons of Love!

I was actually referring to the Hamilton Aaron Burr song but this really makes my case for me.

I wasn't replying to your post, Mickey. I knew what that was in reference to.

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:Seasons of Love!

I was actually referring to the Hamilton Aaron Burr song but this really makes my case for me.

I wasn't replying to your post, Mickey. I knew what that was in reference to.

Bringing up Rent songs unprompted is "fucked up"

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:Seasons of Love!

I was actually referring to the Hamilton Aaron Burr song but this really makes my case for me.

I wasn't replying to your post, Mickey. I knew what that was in reference to.

Bringing up Rent songs unprompted is "fucked up"

It wasn't unprompted