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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 28, 2017 19:04:49 GMT 10
A thread to share any music-related thoughts that you have which don't relate to any of the other threads.
I'm watching the 2017 ARIA Awards at the moment and the ceremony really emphasizes the absolute dire state the Australian music scene is in at the moment. It's seriously depressing to watch. Over half of the artists/bands who are nominated for each category haven't even achieved any Top-50 chart success. In years gone by, all of the nominees experienced Top-50 singles chart success in some form. Also, the ARIA Awards are now really reliant on overseas artists performing during the ceremony. For instance, Lorde, Harry Styles and Julia Michaels are all performing tonight.
In case you're wondering what Australian music is currently like, here are a few Australian songs which have been released this year (these songs have been successful in the ARIA Top-50):
The only somewhat decent song is "Lay it All on Me" by Vance Joy. The rest of the Australian songs to have been released this year are pure rubbish.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 29, 2017 18:43:04 GMT 10
I can't believe this single achieved success in the US back in 2014. According to the Wikipedia article, it reached #31 on the Billboard Hot 100!  Here in Australia, it only peaked at #94, however it did receive a lot of radio airplay.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 27, 2017 14:07:57 GMT 10
This morning, I was thinking about how 2003 is almost fifteen years old and how "In Da Club" was one of the most popular songs released that year. I never normally think or even listen to the song, because I don't like it all. However, just twenty minutes later, as I was driving along, it was played on the radio and it was the first time I heard it on the radio in a long time! How does that even happen?! 
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Post by longaotian on Dec 27, 2017 16:36:46 GMT 10
This morning, I was thinking about how 2003 is almost fifteen years old and how "In Da Club" was one of the most popular songs released that year. I never normally think or even listen to the song, because I don't like it all. However, just twenty minutes later, as I was driving along, it was played on the radio and it was the first time I heard it on the radio in a long time! How does that even happen?! That literally always happens to me, especially with random old songs which aren't regularly played on the radio
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Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 27, 2017 23:41:49 GMT 10
This morning, I was thinking about how 2003 is almost fifteen years old and how "In Da Club" was one of the most popular songs released that year. I never normally think or even listen to the song, because I don't like it all. However, just twenty minutes later, as I was driving along, it was played on the radio and it was the first time I heard it on the radio in a long time! How does that even happen?! That literally always happens to me, especially with random old songs which aren't regularly played on the radio Haha. It's strange how it can happen!
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Post by #Infinity on Dec 29, 2017 17:20:40 GMT 10
I discovered this song last night while exploring eurodance tracks on iTunes from the 90s and 2000s. It's a particularly interesting song to me because based on the second verse, this girl group is ostensibly addressing a woman by implication. After all, what woman compliments a guy based on his "sexy lips," "angel eyes," and "perfume?" Then you get to the bridge..."boy you look so sexy and fine." Bit of a letdown for me personally as a bubbly dance-pop-loving woman who happens to be attracted to other women. Again, it doesn't really make intuitive sense and is just so easy to make fun of in context. What really surprised me, however, is that when I looked up the lyrics to this song, there are versions posted on the web that go, "girl you look so sexy and fine" instead! Having stumbled upon this, I spent the past day hunting for this fabled alternate version with de-censored lyrics, as that one word radically changes the nature of this entire song. There are several YouTube videos that feature it because it was featured in a Japanese rhythm game, but even though there's a more retro-sounding album mix, as well as a club mix, I still couldn't find one that had the lyrics I found on the web.  Maybe it's just the Mandela effect at work, since "girl" is obviously more intuitive than "boy" based on the second verse, or perhaps somebody just made an error in the original liner notes. Either way, my mind simply cannot accept that the bridge is referring to the same person as that second verse, so I've actually imagined a totally different interpretation of the song. Instead of being a firm declaration of attraction to a single subject, my take is that these three ladies are interacting with multiple people. They're at a beach party, anyway, and especially since the lyrics are interwoven with "everybody dance" clichés in the midst of all the suspiciously female-centric pickup lines, it ironically makes more sense. Actually, since the track is being performed by a girl group and not a single individual, wouldn't it, ironically, be most logical, anyway, that's they'd be respectively interacting with separate party guests? Funnily enough, the word "perfume" was used in reference to a female narrator's crush in Elisa Fiorillo's "Jackie," one of my favourite songs of the 1980s. Unlike the obviously ultra-feminine man from "Rhythm of Love," however, Jackie's gender is never specified in this song, so it very clearly sounds like Elisa is singing about another girl. The fact that "Jackie" came out way back in 1987, when this type of thing is still uncommon in pop music today, makes the line that much more intriguing ("Rhythm of Love" is from 2007, two decades later). The line is so evocatively homoerotic that in later covers by Blue Zone and Joanne (whose version was a huge hit around the turn of 1999 in Australia), it was changed from, "I woke up smelling your perfume" to "I woke up thinking it was you!"
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 5, 2018 17:35:21 GMT 10
I wonder what Americans must think of the GTA V in-game radio station, Non-Stop Pop FM? As you can tell by the video above, the station was intentionally "programmed" by the game developers to be a British Top-40 station. While a lot of the songs in the station's playlist did chart in the United States (such as "Applause" by Lady Gaga), quite a lot of the songs/artists would be completely unknown to American listeners: Unless you had an interest in pop music from overseas, with the possible exception of Kylie Minogue, you would have absolutely no idea who these artists are! I discovered this song last night while exploring eurodance tracks on iTunes from the 90s and 2000s. It's a particularly interesting song to me because based on the second verse, this girl group is ostensibly addressing a woman by implication. After all, what woman compliments a guy based on his "sexy lips," "angel eyes," and "perfume?" Then you get to the bridge..."boy you look so sexy and fine." Bit of a letdown for me personally as a bubbly dance-pop-loving woman who happens to be attracted to other women. Again, it doesn't really make intuitive sense and is just so easy to make fun of in context. What really surprised me, however, is that when I looked up the lyrics to this song, there are versions posted on the web that go, "girl you look so sexy and fine" instead! Having stumbled upon this, I spent the past day hunting for this fabled alternate version with de-censored lyrics, as that one word radically changes the nature of this entire song. There are several YouTube videos that feature it because it was featured in a Japanese rhythm game, but even though there's a more retro-sounding album mix, as well as a club mix, I still couldn't find one that had the lyrics I found on the web. Maybe it's just the Mandela effect at work, since "girl" is obviously more intuitive than "boy" based on the second verse, or perhaps somebody just made an error in the original liner notes. I guess both factors could come into play. Like you mentioned, it doesn't make intuitive sense to associate the words "sexy lips", "angel eyes" and "perfume" with a male. But then again, it could very well be an error in the liner notes as well. I suppose there's no real way of knowing as to what the cause of it is.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 22, 2018 0:51:01 GMT 10
You wouldn't think that the artist responsible for "Ooh Aah" would also release a song such as this. It's a complete contrast. This is actually a semi-decent pop track with surprisingly meaningful lyrics. Ironically though, it fared a lot worse on the charts than "Ooh Aah", only managing to peak at #23 and stay on the charts for 4 weeks. I guess after the complete embarrassment that was "Ooh Aah", Tamara Jaber's solo career was never likely to succeed. This was her last single.
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Post by #Infinity on Sept 11, 2018 0:34:59 GMT 10
In my opinon, this may be the only genuinely “vintage”-sounding hip hop song in history. Even though it came out a bit after “Rapper’s Delight”, that song’s crisp groove and decently sophisticated lyrics have made it age quite well. This, on the other hand, very clearly sounds like it was produced during the era in which rapping was slowly creeping out of the scroungy underground music scene, complete with a rock organ for the offbeat chords and garage-ish layer mixing. The lead vocals are especially ancinet-sounding, as they were mastered with an echo that really shows how long ago they were recorded, and factors such as the inflection, the super corny nursery rhyme lyrics, and the fact that this is only borderline rapping and part rambling all give it a distinctly primitive feel. For the record, I actually love this song, as all of those dingy elements give it a very distinct charm, but it also shows its age much more to me than “Rapper’s Delight”, “The Breaks”, “The Message”, or even “Rapture”.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 12, 2018 20:07:56 GMT 10
In my opinon, this may be the only genuinely “vintage”-sounding hip hop song in history. Even though it came out a bit after “Rapper’s Delight”, that song’s crisp groove and decently sophisticated lyrics have made it age quite well. This, on the other hand, very clearly sounds like it was produced during the era in which rapping was slowly creeping out of the scroungy underground music scene, complete with a rock organ for the offbeat chords and garage-ish layer mixing. The lead vocals are especially ancinet-sounding, as they were mastered with an echo that really shows how long ago they were recorded, and factors such as the inflection, the super corny nursery rhyme lyrics, and the fact that this is only borderline rapping and part rambling all give it a distinctly primitive feel. For the record, I actually love this song, as all of those dingy elements give it a very distinct charm, but it also shows its age much more to me than “Rapper’s Delight”, “The Breaks”, “The Message”, or even “Rapture”. That's an interesting find. I would have to agree that it is most likely the only "vintage"-sounding hip hop song in history. Unlike "Rapper's Delight" (which still sounds quite fresh despite it's age, IMO), "Oops Upside Your Head" well and truly sounds like it was released almost four decades ago.
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Post by Telso on Sept 15, 2018 10:41:22 GMT 10
I'm happy we have this kind of thread because there is a lot of random crap that goes through my mind when I listen to music!
A cool but forgotten Alt Rock song with a slightly interesting story as it was originally released as a B-side in 1987, but then was released slightly remixed in 1995 as an apart single. That is quite a lot of years to release a remix that doesn't remix much of the original anyway.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 21, 2018 17:11:25 GMT 10
On the way home from work this afternoon, I heard Led Zepplin's "Stairway to Heaven" on the radio station I was listening to in the car. Just over an hour later, there was a question on Millionaire Hot Seat (a shorter format of the quiz show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?) about "Stairway to Heaven". What are the chances of that?! 
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Post by Telso on Sept 22, 2018 7:35:32 GMT 10
Thinking of it, this song almost felt like a backlash against the idealist empowering songs that littered the early 2010s like Firework/Fucking Perfect/Stronger in its cold, gritty attitude and "return to reality" message.
Too bad, the LMFAO-esque Electro-House production was out by the middle of 2013 so this quickly fell off the charts.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 23, 2018 0:24:43 GMT 10
I can remember hearing this song on a regular basis when I was 3-4 years old and I have heard it a few times over the years, but I never knew what the name of the song was or who the artist was. This song happened to be shown on the music countdown show I am currently watching and after all these years, I finally know more information about the song itself.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 23, 2018 22:38:25 GMT 10
 MTV Music is currently playing "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G. It seems like a bit of an odd choice for a "Best of the '90s" countdown, because "Juicy" didn't even chart in Australia and the majority of Australians probably aren't even familiar with the song. I took the screen-capture above, in case you were wondering.
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Here in Australia, it only peaked at #94, however it did receive a lot of radio airplay.
Maybe it's just the Mandela effect at work, since "girl" is obviously more intuitive than "boy" based on the second verse, or perhaps somebody just made an error in the original liner notes.
