Idolator

Leak of the day? As in the leaky liquid shit that is this guy's music?

You say you teach 9th grade, Aquemini? You write like you're in 9th grade.

Srsly, Aquemini? You could be 15, you could be 50, for all we know - but one thing's certain: You're flogging a rockist music philosophy (+ certain strains of critic-approved hip-hop) that not even Rolling Stone promulgates anymore.

I mean, have you been paying any attention to the kind of soup-to-nuts, pop-to-indie shit we discuss here at all?

Chris Brown seems like a good, clean kid. I have realized, however, that lately it's hard for me to distinguish between him and Lloyd on faster dance songs. Their voices are very similar to me.

Dennis: yes, I do. I just feel that I am putting in my VERY opinionated two cents. If i didn't like the site, i wouldn't come here everyday, several time a day. I appreciate that there are posts about all sorts of music and i will give them a fair shake, but I call 'em like i see 'em. Not a shot at Idolator, whose editors I think do a very good job of making diverse posts, just a shot at this guy, whose music, in my personal opinion, is TERRIBLE.
And seriously, the "leak of the day" joke was so obvious. Maybe it is because i am around 15 year olds all day?
Plus, I would say that 1) i am not a "rockist", and if i promulgate a theory of liking good music and disliking shitty music, then so be it. I don't care if no agrees with me, it's my opinion. However, my music tastes are EXTREMELY broad, liking everything but modern country, R&B, and (most) top 40.
I mostly made that comment to just start some talking, and i succeeded. But, I will say and i will always, it escapes me how one can like this music-- it is themeatically reptitive, musically, repetitive, and in general seems geared to 15 year old girls who hang out at the mall.
for the record, i am 24.

So THAT'S where Hilary Duff's veneers went.

Musical taste is subjective. If I or you don't like something, it doesn't mean it's bad. If we all liked the same music, we'd be... I dunno, Germany?

Modern R&B, Top 40, hell it's fun. Summer is coming. Dancing to silly music in your car, in your office chair or even in your living room is fun. Unless you live in that Footloose town, and then I guess you just wouldn't get it.

@Aquemini: I got your back, Aquemini. Chris Brown's tired schtick - high, girly singing and the non-ironic trucker hats and super-baggy everything are so 1996 - seems like a bad joke. On us. The only thing sadder is how humorless posters here get when someone shows dissent.

And why does one assume someone who likely takes his handle from an OutKast album is "rockist"?

@Xenu: Brown's schtick is tired. (I tend to disdain him not because he's "manufactured," but because he seems to be ripping off other, more interesting pop-&-b acts like Usher.)

But just so we're clear...

A rockist isn't just someone who loves rock 'n' roll, who goes on and on about Bruce Springsteen, who champions ragged-voiced singer-songwriters no one has ever heard of. A rockist is someone who reduces rock 'n' roll to a caricature, then uses that caricature as a weapon. Rockism means idolizing the authentic old legend (or underground hero) while mocking the latest pop star; lionizing punk while barely tolerating disco; loving the live show and hating the music video; extolling the growling performer while hating the lip-syncher....

[I]t almost certainly means disdaining not just Ms. Simpson but also Christina Aguilera and Usher and most of the rest of them, grousing about a pop landscape dominated by big-budget spectacles and high-concept photo shoots, reminiscing about a time when the charts were packed with people who had something to say, and meant it, even if that time never actually existed. If this sounds like you, then take a long look in the mirror: you might be a rockist.

-Kelefa Sanneh, New York Times, 31 Oct 2004

(To throw you a bone, Sanneh confesses that "no one really agrees on what the term means.")