OK, so, Animal fucking Collective. I might hate Tumblr more than them, what a mess of a platform that is - how the hell you all keep track of what anyone's saying I've no idea. Hence, posting this here
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The one good thing about the shambles of Tumblr is that it makes the people who just click 'like' meaningless - you liked what, the first post or the second post that called the third post a liar, or the third post etc etc.
In fairness I think that the they're talking about the 'indie' canon (which is not on much less shaky ground that the idea of a global canon), which the 1988 Sonic Youth song is definitely in. But that just makes it more hilarious that the same people are enthused about the idea that AC are here to save pop!
It's hard to know what will be canonised - lots of terrible indie records have made it there over the years. Trouble is, the people who purport to define canons for pop music in the broadest sense (i.e. anything since jazz) tend to centre around rock, and anything else is tokenised - Public Enemy as the only black hip hop act in so many Greatest Albums Ever lists, and so on. My canon for this year, as represented by the list I constructed for the jukebox, is completely dominated by R&B, but I have no idea if this decade will be looked back on in 25 years in that light
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In a golden cage! On a winter's day! In the rain!koganbotDecember 3 2009, 20:36:00 UTC
It's A Beautiful Day! I remember It's A Beautiful Day! I even liked their one song! Well, I'm sure they had more songs than just "White Bird," but not that more than a thousand people heard probably. I'm amazed that anyone thought they were for posterity. Rather, I thought they were going to sit in their cage, unknown.
OK, now someone excellent is going to sing "White Bird" on American Idol, in a far better version than It's A Beautiful Day's, and the song well enter The Canon,* just as Heart's "Alone" did when Carrie Underwood sang it.
The original recalls what was often hideous about 1969's combination of vacuity and self-seriousness, but at least there's a good melody in there, and joy in the sound of organ and harmony.
I suppose it's an issue of expectations, in the same way it's considered a failure if Liverpool FC don't qualify for the Champions League, it's a failure if Cassie (being a mainstream rnb singer with a hefty budget behind her) doesn't sell millions of records. Nobody cares how many records Animal Collective sell, least of all their fans.
Several weeks ago a local DJ on the hip-hop/r&b station played "Me & U" then sneered at Cassie, asking why were people even talking about her, she hasn't hit with anything since "U & Me," all she's doing is dating Diddy, etc. I was shocked - thought it was the sort of thing some ILX-type Internet creep would say, or some dickhead posting on a YouTube comment thread, but not a DJ on commercial radio. I guess it's someone's idea of being tough and realistic, straight talk from the braindead.
Haha sadly what ILX creeps would say is pretty much harmless compared to what the real world and the actually-gross gossip blogs would say. Entertainment industry appears to be taking its cue from Perez Hilton.
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In fairness I think that the they're talking about the 'indie' canon (which is not on much less shaky ground that the idea of a global canon), which the 1988 Sonic Youth song is definitely in. But that just makes it more hilarious that the same people are enthused about the idea that AC are here to save pop!
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OK, now someone excellent is going to sing "White Bird" on American Idol, in a far better version than It's A Beautiful Day's, and the song well enter The Canon,* just as Heart's "Alone" did when Carrie Underwood sang it.
The original recalls what was often hideous about 1969's combination of vacuity and self-seriousness, but at least there's a good melody in there, and joy in the sound of organ and harmony.
*Like, there's a canon...
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Sebadoh I had actually forgotten even existed, tho.
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I wish I'd never heard of Pavement.
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