WALRUSMASTER ** I Wonder what the next task will be?

[shaft.ed]

I didn’t record it but we did have a 50-minute version on our road trip to California a few weeks ago.

[shaft.ed]

how did i find the other game on this forum that challenges me to be a worse person

doesnt it also challenge you not to be then?

[Jake The Wolfie]

I like how shaft.ed's pfp implies that he stole Greg's Glorious Golden Head

[Haschel Cedricson]

I didn’t record it but we did have a 50-minute version on our road trip to California a few weeks ago.

If I have the choice between that song or a crying baby, I will take the song every time. And a surprising amount of the time those are indeed my only two choices!

[shaft.ed]

I like how shaft.ed's pfp implies that he stole Greg's Glorious Golden Head

i'm a powerful sorcerer
i've stolen Greg's head

[shaft.ed]

The angle I hadn't really considered coming into this one was the angsty feelings of youth and youthful relationships

MUSHirius9121

do a good job of representing this niche of youth music.


listening notes:

Definitely has the teen angst, and the energy is making me tired which is a young thing. Vocal distortions and instrumentation seem current, aside from guitar bass maybe? I can definitely picture a teenager in their bedroom listening to this.

Like NuMetal, T-pain and O-Zone had a baby. Music for the kids of post apocalyptic tomorrow. Partying on a floatilla above sunken Miami, trading their kidneys for a 24 pack of Aquafina.

These are definitely in the running for kids today music. Maybe MUSH's is more kids of tomorrow. But maybe I only perceive it as tomorrow because I'm 5 years behind and tomorrow is actually today?

[MUSHSHAGANA]

It's kids of all times, spaces and dimensions. The heart of that song is firmly in the tradition of Papa Roach, who I must remind everyone, released a revamped -- sorry, Reloaded*** -- version of Last Resort recently with Jeris Johnson. No, really. Also, I had to hear this so now everyone else does too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYDTcCf0xvw

If there's a song meant to resonate with the youth of today, it would be that Papa Roach reload(?). I submit that Astro Rain is just that same general approach, but made timeless IN ADDITION to being very very much in line with stuff made for those damned kids. Last Resort Reloaded will lose play quickly enough, but those who listen to Astro Rain now will listen to Astro Rain tomorrow too, and thereby perpetuate the cycle of auto-tune and bounce riffs.

[MUSHSHAGANA]

Oh yeah and I almost forgot that the song is, I cannot stress this enough, VERY MUCH ABOUT VAMPIRES. Twilight is out of favor these days, but mark my words, given the relative density of vampire romance fiction before and during Twilight and its popularity with the youth, there'll be a new one here soon, and the song will then be both current and timeless in ALL facets.

[hellbooks]

i love vampires

[hellbooks]

*maintains silence on cocteau twins*

[MUSHSHAGANA]

You love vampires, but do you love auto-tuned crooning and jumpdafuckup?

[shaft.ed]

Don't know why but I expected more rap entries
probably because this was still lodged in my brain

Spoiler:

We did get a pair of rap entries from

Cheet and Dav

listening notes:

Triplet rap, check. Tinny percussion, check. Background interjections, check. Berlin Wall reference, record scratch noise. That can't be current. At the same time, they don't seem to realize the Berlin Wall doesn't exist so it wouldn't function as they seem to assume it would. (kids are stupid)

listening notes:

Is that a theramin? Is it me or does this have like a post Soulja Boy era feel to it. Are they doing fadeouts again?

Overall Cheet's felt pretty stereotypical of current trends
I think Davsto was off by 10-15 years maybe? Couldn't tell if this was a callback to popular media or where this might have been pulled from. If this were anonymous I also don't think I'd have been lining it up with him.

[shaft.ed]

oh god all the avatars keep changing

[hellbooks]

"This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube" seems like it ought to suffer some penalty points >:)

[shaft.ed]

shots fired

on the flip side the Parental Advisory labels were a beacon to high schoolers back in my day
I had something similar to this back in my teen years

Spoiler:

[Davsto]

Obviously the song, Yankin' by Lady, is ten years or so old, but having never become popular at the time makes it ripe for love from today's kids - they really dig that whole "back in the day", "lost treasure" kind of deal with music. The most strikingly youngster-friendly aspect is of course in the words themselves; lyrically this song is a proto-WAP, which was a recent big hit so there is experimental evidence in favour of this song's appreciability. As for the song itself, all the elements are there - the drawly rapping, the catchy guitar loop, and the blips from the BBC News theme, all coming together to make a cohesive hole for the youth.

[MUSHSHAGANA]

shots fired

on the flip side the Parental Advisory labels were a beacon to high schoolers back in my day
I had something similar to this back in my teen years

Spoiler:

Parental Advisory warnings backfired so hard. Everyone saw them as a sign of the music being "real". It was a sort of proto-anti-capitalist cool; "The Man thinks this will keep you away from your Degenerate Noise and get you listening to Wholesome Family Nonsense! Fuck that! These guys are too cool to compromise for money. It's real art."

I remember some punk album or another came out without a Parental Advisory label on it because it was a concept album, would've been about 01 or 02, and no one even listened to it because of that: they just yelled "sell out!" and dismissed it. It was a weird ass time.

[shaft.ed]

all coming together to make a cohesive hole for the youth.

bad Davsto

[shaft.ed]

Parental Advisory warnings backfired so hard. Everyone saw them as a sign of the music being "real". It was a sort of proto-anti-capitalist cool; "The Man thinks this will keep you away from your Degenerate Noise and get you listening to Wholesome Family Nonsense! Fuck that! These guys are too cool to compromise for money. It's real art."

I think I wrote a 10th grade paper on 2 Live Crew
those stickers really did end up being a major attractant

[schadd_]

i ask my mom before i listen to any album that has one

[shaft.ed]

i ask my mom before i listen to any album that has one

you aren't supposed to get advice from your parents

the record label is letting you know that the artists' parents helped with the lyrics

[Psyche]

Obviously the song, Yankin' by Lady, is ten years or so old, but having never become popular at the time makes it ripe for love from today's kids - they really dig that whole "back in the day", "lost treasure" kind of deal with music.

haha no they don't

[MUSHSHAGANA]

i ask my mom before i listen to any album that has one

In all seriousness, as I recall, the kids who were going to listen to that had parents that didn't give a shit so long as it meant they didn't have to deal with their own human larvae. Who remembers getting M-rated games at the age of 12? Watching R-rated horror films before puberty?

The real surprise isn't that the stickers were useless, but that they were a selling point. What really did the bands that'd get those stickers dirty was Wal-Mart refusing to carry albums with the stickers.

[shaft.ed]

What really did the bands that'd get those stickers dirty was Wal-Mart refusing to carry albums with the stickers.

which just led to artists recording 'clean' versions of their albums

[Davsto]

Obviously the song, Yankin' by Lady, is ten years or so old, but having never become popular at the time makes it ripe for love from today's kids - they really dig that whole "back in the day", "lost treasure" kind of deal with music.

haha no they don't

u ever been on tiktok? 90% of the big trends are songs 10+ years old (like shake shake-a-shake it, how bizarre etc). tally hall recently got rly popular amongst ~15 year olds because ruler of everything became a meme. this idea that tHe KIdS only like the tRAsH NeW MusIC is outdated - it may be one of their primary sources (which makes sense ofc) but they do have an odd pseudo-nostalgia for the early 2000s tunes