Dear “Stereogum Readers”: Stop Spamming Us About Dan Deacon

Idolator boasting about blogging about Dan Deacon before other bloggers makes me more sad than when my grandpa died.

i miss brian.

Is anyone else kind of bewildered by the rise of cutesiness (for lack of a better term) in certain corners of pop culture? The embrace of child-like behavior, visual preferences and motifs? I understand it at some level as a reaction to modern alienation, current socio-political pressure and all that jazz, but come on, is self-conciously acting like a retarded eight year old on Pixie sticks something to be embraced all that fervently? Does the world really need more than one Miranda July?

deacon = meh

@Audif Jackson Winters III: Well said. Also, in the well said department: “a twentysomething doof convinced he’s the funniest thing in girl jeans at his local liberal arts college.”

I like this Jess character!

@Weezy F Baby: Sorry homey, I’ll try to ratchet up the discourse to “mo rocca gargles my balls” level for next wednesday.

@Audif Jackson Winters III: I’m getting pretty fed up with it, too, but I’ll still take it over the Arcade Fire strain of current indie rock culture. (Which is just as infantile in its own way, of course, even if the presentation is different.)

@Weezy F Baby: it’s not a boast, it’s a response to a particularly annoying suggestion from a “helpful” e-mailer. (that “get on the deacon train” thing was a direct quote from the e-mail.)

@jess h.: Yeah, I would tangentially lump the Arcade Fire into that. I do like them, but the “wasn’t it awesome when we were kids?” theme suffusing the whole first album was not nearly as profound as I’m sure they thought it was. All things being equal, though, it was a lot less embarassing than the stabs at political/religious/Joe Simpson-as-evil-svengali commentary on “Neon Bible.”

@jess h.: but mo rocca gargles my balls, not yours.

they call alabama the crimson tide

call me deacon blues

@Weezy F Baby: That two-timing bastard.

@Audif Jackson Winters III: I’ve only cracked the shrinkwrap on Neon Bible for one listen, but I’ll take the overly-earnest early stuff over the new “epic Mennonite darkness” shtick for sure.

Hah. I thought it got Deacon to a tee. I think that it was supposed to be intentionally dumb, seeing how someone that lame and fat got famous. As for the tipsters, thats just pathetic.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Is that interview for real?

Reading “Wire” might make me look like an elitist asshole, but at least the writing isn’t crap like that.

Yeah, that article is shitty just like Deacon. I hope it was meant to be ironic. The mag surprisingly looked pretty classy though.

interesting point regarding the “arcade fire strain of current indie rock culture”.
i consider it to be one step away from the brafferific yawn spreading like the plague that it is.
stereogum to me is becoming a standard bearer of exactly what to avoid musically and culturally.

@Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee:
the writing might not be crap like that, but the acts covered and the actual writing style are totally different kinds of crap altogether.

wow. if that’s all that “the press” is coming to these days, maybe I’d better turn my ship around.

Ha! If you people aren’t seeing the satire behind that article then you are probably a part of the joke. props to my new favorite mag!

@Speered: Great, you’ve just rendered 85% of all future Idolator comments completely redundant.

It’s titled Partymeister to the Plebeians for a reason…the interview is retarded to identify with dan deacon’s fanbase

@DonnaSummersLoveChild: @b4nt4:
Intentionally retarded = Still retarded. Even if it’s a self-aware
pisstake, it’s still a waste of an interview. Go back to Bard, and
don’t come back until you’re funny, not “funny.”

“…twentysomething doof convinced he’s the funniest thing in girl jeans at his local liberal arts college”

Ouch. That hurts guys. Hurts real good.

And leave Mo Rocca alone. I own a signed copy of Hootie and the Blowfish’s greatest hits thanks to him. Have I “cracked the shrinkwrap” on it? No. But that’s besides the point.

@Audif Jackson Winters III:

One Miranda July is already one too many.

Though with respect to Arcade Fire vs. Dan Deacon: while lyrics are easy to ignore, Deacon is kind of a flaming car wreck of cute. It’s like being stalked by an American Girl Doll store.

I would just like to agree with everyone here in saying that everyone that listens to music I don’t like is very much a bunch of dumb-dumbs. Subsequently, all other blogs besides my favorite blogs are written and read by total hipster wannabes. Also, everything I have to say is very important. That’s why I put it in blogs and pre-determined blog comment areas! And if you don’t agree, it’s probably just because you are too dumb to realize how much everything you enjoy sucks because you aren’t as authentic as me. I was the first person to be authentic, after all. And I blogged about it. In conclusion, I will continue blogging because there are people out there that like things that I don’t, and by God, I will not stop until they realize that they should stop enjoying those things immediately. Cheers.

Please, let me off this train! His friends should put him on style’s “How Do I Look?” show. But seriously, his album sounds like one big corrupted mp3 file.

I will say that I read/ heard about this guy here before anywhere else; I will also say that i astutely pointed out at that time that this dude is not very good at making music. I have never seen blogosphere-hipster-follow-the-trend-ness in fuller effect than with this guy

This whole …erm, thread… reminds me of a scene in the David Cross tour DVD “Let America Laugh.” Some college kid interviews David more-or-less about a previous interview David had done. I think he winds up stealing some of the kid’s notes at the end… it’s an astoundingly painful interview.