Never thought the day would come where the lead singer from Korn is featured on a Coldplay album

“I will forgive Stereogum. Plus, one cannot argue with the value of the buttplug package. That’s just good economics.” – Pope Francis during Mass

It’s like these people don’t even realize Justin Bieber is our generation’s Kurt Cobain.

We need to accept the possibility of a plane ride so efficient it hasn’t even taken off yet.

the subtlety is what makes it

Wow wow wow! What’s with the unnecessary Cobain bashing here, bud?

FINE I AM BAD AT BASEBALL METAPHORS

I’m French, from Paris, I got friends who were in the venue, people i know who didn’t make it, and I’m really shocked that Vice made a “trailer” for this interview… A few seconds of the horror of this evening in the Bataclan, but “Behold, you’ll know all the horrible details next week, folks”.
this is not a freak show, this is reality… Keep that in mind.

Adele’s voice is a force of nature, Adele’s songs are nothing special. Generally, I like having her around, though I will probably feel differently by the time Thanksgiving is over. Whoever decided to release this just before Thanksgiving/”The Holidays” is a genius, since it’s an almost ideally agreeable soundtrack for multi-generational family gatherings. It’s also kind of critic-proof: being upset that Adele didn’t venture further afield of her mid-tempo weepies is sort of like being upset that you’re eating turkey and mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving AGAIN.

My problem with Adele is less anything to do with her than the sort of cultural reaction to her. Tom links to an article about crying in public to 25, I saw a FB status last night that was like “Just listened to 25, now I can cry myself to sleep.” It’s not like her music leaves me cold or anything, but at this point it’s almost hilarious to me how the baseline expectation for Adele is not that it’s some personal, idiosyncratic emotional journey, just that you’ll be able to subsume it to whatever sad emotions you’re feeling at the time. It kind of reminds me of when Les Mis came out and people we’re tweeting shit like “I’m already crying… during the previews.” There was just this promise of catharsis and an excuse to be part of a mass, public emoting that people really responded to.

Anyway, I guess I should actually listen to this. BRB CRYING FOREVER.

You mean this isn’t even part of the article? I’m not a writer for Stereogum?

Animal Collective fans are butthurt sensitive softies? What a surprise! Dudes, it’s not 2001. Electro-acoustic psych jam rock. lolz!

oh wow. animal collective. file this one into the who-cares file.

animal collective

nope

oh wow. animal collective. toss this into the ‘who-cares’ file.

Waste of a potato