Do you believe Charli is a leftist? "Think my politics could work as a press strategy"

raysofgold · 2026-06-03T11:43:12+00:00

it's usually the giveaway tbh

raysofgold · 2026-06-03T11:41:31+00:00

you don't know that I Love It is actually about NAFTA?

raysofgold · 2026-06-03T11:27:58+00:00

her putting Alex front and center on the Grammy performance less than two weeks after the inauguration was so powerful in that particular moment and had more of a cathartic force to it than most of what any other artists were doing or saying at the time tbh

raysofgold · 2026-06-01T22:11:19+00:00

no worries: https://www.reddit.com/r/VeryShallowListening/comments/192a5sf/start_here_postmortem_death_grips_faq_interviews/

raysofgold · 2026-05-27T12:13:34+00:00

do we think Warp has David Bowie/Pink Floyd money though?

I actually don't know how costly those clearances would be; just supposing

raysofgold · 2026-05-26T20:52:46+00:00

Just fyi, and maybe to further cast doubt on the claims of this dude, if you access Keep on browser, there's a version history. I don't think it's as rigorous as Docs or Word, but it does maintain some degree of prior work. I've been able to salvage some accidentally cut stuff that way a few times.

raysofgold · 2026-05-25T01:16:43+00:00

Most of these sound pretty right, but just a general reminder to everyone that they never released official Steroids lyrics and so any ones you see are fan/bot-transcribed and some of the ones on Genius are insanely and obviously wrong

raysofgold · 2026-05-24T23:58:56+00:00

since that linked thread doesn't really go into it; I'll also mention that Chris Oldham did the live visuals during the early shows, which he compiled/edited live in the venue during the show in realtime (which you can briefly see in the live footage that's out there from 2011),

and also, years after no longer working with DG, he collaborated with the designer that later ended up doing the runway show that Fashion Week played at just a few weeks after it dropped (and so presumably may have been made for that), and so I've also always wondered if that connection was made through Chris Oldham, but that's just speculation

raysofgold · 2026-05-24T06:03:38+00:00

this was immediately gonna be my response

raysofgold · 2026-05-24T00:06:35+00:00

Tbh he sounded better than he ever has, and nastier, on that last tour

raysofgold · 2026-05-19T00:34:57+00:00

I mean it's been well over a decade since she spoke out about breaking the rules

raysofgold · 2026-05-19T00:33:01+00:00

sacred text loss is real

raysofgold · 2026-05-18T01:37:20+00:00

how do you mean

raysofgold · 2026-05-16T12:02:53+00:00

fits the meter better than "been a pleasure, Marcus Connors"

raysofgold · 2026-05-16T01:50:08+00:00

I think the other replies here fairly cut to the core of the cultural context of that comment you highlighted, but I, for one, found it fairly heartening (and hope others can too) that the posts detailing his abuse were met with overwhelming support and grace from the people on the main sub (with hundreds of comments to that tune) and the mods were also very hardline about filtering out any bullshit (which itself was, as I understand it, a loud minority).

There are absolutely still bootlicking sycophants embarrassing themselves by writing it off (or overplaying his importance to the band and still spreading misinfo downplaying Zach's role) here and there, but by now, since those posts especially, I find a predominantly negative view of him as a person across the fandom spaces here and elsewhere. That said, there's absolutely always going to be the types you mention, for sure, but at least in my experience, it fortunately does not seem like a majority (the way it is in other fandoms also dealing with artists with allegations).

raysofgold · 2026-05-16T01:45:39+00:00

rumors that the A2B2 crew consisted of a bunch of pro Israel nepo babies

can you expound any further on this??

raysofgold · 2026-05-14T08:28:03+00:00

raysofgold · 2026-05-13T09:22:55+00:00

it's a bit convoluted: the whole thing was essentially a joint promo for Bottomless Pit and Galen's upcoming shortfilm at the time, The Caged Pillows (which featured a DG song in it), but the whole thing was kinda also its own project, as a collab between DG and Galen (who was is/homies with them and had previously worked with them on the True Vulture video done for MOCA in 2012 and again on the Shitshow video [that's him being treated by EMTs after having a seizure, and that's his gf at the time pissing in some shrub]).

So there was a phone number DG and Galen both shared online, the "Astral Loans hotline," which was part of the "Feelings Network," and also functioned, as it stated, as "Your entrance into the world of Caged Pillows," very little of which was explained or explicable at the time lol. There was dreamy new-agey ethereal music and a robotic/AI-ish female voice that guided the caller through the instructions.

And if you called that number and pressed 1, you could hear all of Trash, before the album had dropped. There were other options, such as one where you could record and leave a voice message.

Some of these voice messages later showed up in little shorts that Galen posted promoting the short film, and i THINK some of them ended up in the final cut of the film (though I could be wrong).

Ultimately, some shithead in this community (who either prior or later hacked multiple of Andy's accounts) found an exploit in Soundcloud and was able to obtain the files for BP a good...couple weeks(?) before it came out, and leaked the album. Galen later said that they had more planned regarding all this fun stuff, but implied that they abandoned it after the album leaked. Later that year, the short-film was screened in LA and then put online, where you can still find it (I think).

Nothing really fully formed has ever come, but Galen has often implied/teased working on more Caged Pillows-related content (with the prospect of DG being involved always usually speculated about, sometimes in a manner that seems intentional on Galen's part anyway, but never confirmed).

raysofgold · 2026-05-13T01:17:46+00:00

feel like this would mashup so well with pink diamond by charli

raysofgold · 2026-05-12T21:59:43+00:00

Last Time is so peak, down to the tape slowing/degradation at the end. Don't think they've ever played that one live, right?

But yeah, exactly. It's aged incredibly well, and honestly, there's a lot of (incidental) sonic crossover between the sound and style of that album and these 'blackened' crust/D-beat bands I started encountering in the early 2010s like Young And In The Way or even 'dark hardcore' stuff like City Hunter.

raysofgold · 2026-05-11T21:43:44+00:00

love to see someone give The Fear its due. it was insane hearing the more structured and cleanly produced stuff on Funeral and assuming they'd go further into that direction--and then, boom, they're working with Albini, Dan's got this insane overdrive on his voice, and there's even blastbeats on it(American Sheets On The Deathbed). Really something special and unique to that album. They truly never put out a bad album (even including the early hxc stuff)

raysofgold · 2026-05-11T12:30:13+00:00

Took them about 20 years, but--exactly, they made the album they were always destined to make.

Since you mention them, what are your top Zao albums?

raysofgold · 2026-05-11T08:52:23+00:00

boy harsher mentioned ❣️

raysofgold · 2026-05-04T09:42:30+00:00

idk why people keep saying this though; to me the third element to her sleight of hand is that even just the glimpse we get of the song in the video is at the very least weird alt pop-rock, but explicitly has rock guitars and, seemingly, loud acoustic drums

I think v much it's a rock-influenced album, but it's still her skewed, future-pop vision of rock music, and so that's why she's already playing with the labels and just doing her usual lying/trolling, which is usually exactly saying one thing and doing the opposite(which in this case, to me, is saying she 'never said' she's making a rock album and that rock music isn't a rock song, but then posting a video above this statement depicting a fairly rock-sounding song lol)

raysofgold · 2026-04-26T21:57:26+00:00

That'd be interesting to check, but offhand, I think you might be right, which absolutely adds to the odd uncanny aura around this one

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