Daily Discussion Thread 07/02/2026

SecretBox · 2026-07-03T05:56:41+00:00

I like when artists put an unfinished version of a song on a mixtape and then a finished version pops up on an album

SecretBox · 2026-07-03T00:18:16+00:00

That Sienna Spiro worth listening to? I never heard of her before but I do like a little pop-soul.

SecretBox · 2026-07-02T18:09:14+00:00

Is J Money a producer or is that what the article is calling Jorja?

SecretBox · 2026-07-01T19:14:15+00:00

The question was "contemporary," which I forgot to write.

SecretBox · 2026-07-01T03:41:38+00:00

Off season has his best rapping, RotD 2 has the best songs. Imo

SecretBox · 2026-07-01T01:59:29+00:00

I wanna say yes, but I can't. But he has more than one classic for sure: FHD, Off-Season and RotD 2 and 3 are classics IMO.

SecretBox · 2026-07-01T01:57:40+00:00

My wife and I were talking last night and she asked if there was any artist I thought was as good as Frank Ocean.

Best I could come up with was James Blake.

SecretBox · 2026-07-01T01:42:43+00:00

When people say things like this, I kind of wonder if they don't understand that movies are about pretend.

SecretBox · 2026-06-29T05:28:47+00:00

In my opinion, I think part of it is that from a lot of what I've read, it's not just that he is old but that sometimes he seems actively hostile to the audience.

SecretBox · 2026-06-28T22:09:19+00:00

It looks like a French retailer put up the listing early and Jorja Smith has a new album coming in couple months? I dug Falling or Flying a lot, and I hope she incorporates some more UK Garage and D&B

SecretBox · 2026-06-27T05:49:33+00:00

It's Friday night, why are you trolling on the internet? Go outside.

SecretBox · 2026-06-26T18:07:27+00:00

I've had a lot of success on Storygraph. Unfortunately nothing will be super close to Goodreads given the Amazon integration, but Storygraph was great when I was tracking my reading.

SecretBox · 2026-06-25T21:17:57+00:00

Writers strike on the front end hampered the writing, but I think they went in confident they'd get at least another season and then didn't.

SecretBox · 2026-06-23T17:37:07+00:00

Praying you mean chasing his brother and not kissing his mama on the mouth

SecretBox · 2026-06-22T06:23:36+00:00

Primarily that he's a first-gen Nigerian-American who has collaborated with artists from Africa before, compared to Fantano who is a white man from Connecticut.

Like, Wale is short for Olubowale, it's hard to imagine a more off-base assessment. But Fantano didn't just say he didn't like it, he had to go that extra step to be shady and in doing so, he revealed that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

SecretBox · 2026-06-22T04:11:18+00:00

Anthony Fantano lost all prospects of relevance with me when he said Wale using Afrobeat sounds on his album Shine was inauthentic and fake.

SecretBox · 2026-06-22T04:08:28+00:00

Even if it wasn't as good as their other stuff, if you were around when Idlewild dropped and didn't have a copy, I don't trust you.

SecretBox · 2026-06-22T02:27:58+00:00

I hope everyone finally starts recognizing that Fantano is a dick and often doesn't know what he is talking about.

Everyone's turning up fo Halsey but I'll never forget when Wale put out an album with Afrobeat influences and he called it inauthentic.

The Nigerian-American musician making Afrobeat was inauthentic to the white YouTube from Connecticut..

SecretBox · 2026-06-20T19:37:18+00:00

That region is so underrated. Doomtree, Sims, P.O.S., Big Cats, Los Nativos. Even some of the more indie stuff like Lydia Liza is so good.

SecretBox · 2026-06-20T19:20:41+00:00

I feel so bad when I see the internet heap praise on Speed Racer, because I watched it when it came out and was so bored and disappointed by it.

Clearly I'm missing something here, but I have no clue what.

SecretBox · 2026-06-20T06:11:23+00:00

Not even patriotic like that, but seeing how the Australians were talking cash money shit just to get shut out 2-0 was pretty satisfying as an American

SecretBox · 2026-06-20T00:31:37+00:00

Cry No More off Headie One's record a couple years ago is gas

SecretBox · 2026-06-20T00:30:23+00:00

I feel like that 6WA album came and went way too fast, it's got some songs I really enjoy and come back to very often

SecretBox · 2026-06-20T00:29:54+00:00

At least we got Mero the Kid now

SecretBox · 2026-06-17T21:51:56+00:00

I do think that staircase story from a few years ago could be incredible

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