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Tag: pop music

  • March 26, 2021 Nicholas R. Jeelvy 34
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    It’s a Hit!

    Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa

    2,185 words

    Dalrymple: Then why am I watching it?
    Costanza: Because it’s on TV!  

    Let’s start with three statements that are in no way, shape or form, related to each other. 

    1. Narcocorrido artists are sometimes used by Mexican cartels to launder money. (more…)

  • October 13, 2020 Scott Weisswald 17
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    First, They Came For Teenage French Pop Singers

    France Gall

    2,278 words

    There once existed a time, alien to my young brain, in which people primarily discovered and listened to pop music on radio stations. These were entities subject to important forces, like censorship and record label interests, that gave rise to various standardizations and trade practices that persist to this day. During the age of the radio, the forces of globalization (more…)

  • September 28, 2020 Scott Weisswald 5
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    Sabaton’s The Great War

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    Sabaton is a Swedish metal band hailing from Falun. Their musical style, in the loose sense of the word, is mostly unremarkable power metal combined with a typically European harte vocal inflection courtesy of the group’s part-Czech lead singer, Joakim Brodén. Sabaton’s shtick, for lack of a more fitting term, is their use of “history” (more…)

  • August 7, 2020 Scott Weisswald 22
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    Taylor Swift’s Folklore

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    Author’s note: Tomorrow marks one year of my writing for Counter-Currents.

    Folklore is Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album. It joined the hallowed halls of other so-called “isolation records” on July 24, 2020, in a surprise release (more…)

  • August 3, 2020 Scott Weisswald 6
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    Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus!
    Part 4: What to Do?

    1,495 words

    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

    So, there are blacks with beats, heebs with chutzpah, and Swedes with serenity. What is a white dissident to do in an environment in which the talents of his people are so easily turned into springboards for cultural developments that annoy at best and brainwash at worst? (more…)

  • July 24, 2020 Scott Weisswald 13
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    Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus!
    Part Three: Sweden, Yes

    Icona Pop performs at Summerburst Festival, Gothenburg.

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    White people are the undisputed masters of making catchy music. American and European pop songs make their way onto the airwaves of the entire world through a robust mechanism of economic globalization and sheer memetic power. But why is the music we make so catchy to just about all ears? And who doesn’t find our music appealing? It would be easy to chalk it up to the undeniable creative strength of our people, but like all endeavors in the arts in the modern world, songwriting has taken on the forms of science and cynical commercialism. (more…)

  • July 10, 2020 Scott Weisswald 32
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    Pop Music is a Satanic Mind-Virus!
    Part One: Jungle Beats

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    As the country gets more diverse, the radio gets more homogeneous. I don’t mean this in the ethnic sense, of course; America’s rockstars are more colorful than ever! Instead, the songs that dominate the country’s charts are beginning to sound more and more alike. The average pop station tends to be an indistinct mass of the same noises (more…)

  • June 29, 2020 Scott Weisswald 3
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    Crystal Castles

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    Crystal Castles is a Canadian band, initially consisting of singer Alice Glass and producer Ethan Kath. The two met each other because of their mutual connections in the large and prolific Toronto music scene, and collaborated on one track, the chaotic “Alice Practice,” as a mere experiment. The two never intended to form a full-time group (more…)

  • June 19, 2020 Scott Weisswald 6
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    Brigitte Bardot’s B. B.

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    Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a famed French actress, singer, pop culture icon, and accidental provocateur. Bardot’s marks on pop culture include her popularization of the bikini, the eponymous Bardot neckline, and her collection of absurdly fun and often intriguing slices of French pop music that feel both timeless in their replay value yet (more…)

  • March 24, 2020 Fullmoon Ancestry 5
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    The Wisdom of “The Gambler”

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    Heavy metal has always been a large part of my life and my red-pill journey. To this day, my morning routine consists of exercising while listening to some of my favorite metal bands like Manowar, Bathory, and Goatmoon. That said, every metalhead has a guilty pleasure, and my guilty pleasure is the music of Kenny Rogers. (more…)

  • March 20, 2020 Scott Weisswald 6
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    Morrissey’s I Am Not a Dog on a Chain

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    How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?

    Morrissey, our favorite gay (postulated) racist (dismissed) vegan (confirmed), released his 13th solo album today, March 20th, 2020. It is called I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, which is a fantastic example of just how kneecapped the self-awareness of the rich and famous can be. (more…)

  • March 17, 2020 Beau Albrecht
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    Elle King’s Love Stuff & Shake the Spirit

    2,243 words American singer-songwriter Elle King.

    Tanner Elle Schneider, better known by her stage name Elle King, is an up-and-coming musician in the genre of American roots music. Her specific style has several influences, the confluence of which arrives at a triple point between rock, country, and blues. The overall effect often is a bit hypnotic. Her singing voice is even more unique, compelling, and slightly reminiscent of Janis Joplin. (more…)

  • March 11, 2020 Scott Weisswald 7
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    Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young’s Déjà Vu

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    Déjà Vu, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young’s first recording as a quartet, was released on this day, March 11th, in 1970. It was greeted with a mixed reception by critics at the time of its release, but has since come to be included in innumerable “best of” lists and is frequently cited as the best work of the group. Taken as a whole, Déjà Vu displays impressive attention to detail and warm, friendly tone, but similarly lacks (more…)

  • February 28, 2020 Scott Weisswald 1
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    Real Estate’s The Main Thing

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    The Main Thing, the fifth studio album from the corduroy indie band Real Estate, was released today, February 28, 2020. It contains some of their most mature work yet, coupled with a healthy attitude towards introducing more complex synthesizer work and poetic lyricism for an album that can be beautiful in its feather-lightness. (more…)

  • February 26, 2020 Scott Weisswald 12
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    Billie Eilish’s “No Time to Die”

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    Eilish. Billie Eilish.

    Never afraid to wring every drop of money out of a pop sensation, this is who the film industry is having sing the theme to the new James Bond film, No Time to Die. The media is billing this interestingly; the New York Times covered the song with glowing praise and a mention of Eilish being the youngest person to ever record a Bond theme. (more…)

  • February 21, 2020 Scott Weisswald 5
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    Grimes’ Miss Anthropocene

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    Miss Anthropocene is the fifth full-length release of Canadian avant-pop songstress Claire Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, and it’s considerably darker than much of her previous work. This is fitting — Grimes has stated that the concept of Miss Anthropocene, a triple-entendre, is that of an “anthropomorphic goddess of climate change.” If this sounds like a bunch of woo nonsense to you, you’d be (mostly) correct. (more…)

  • February 14, 2020 Scott Weisswald 3
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    Valentine’s Day Special:
    Alessandra Mussolini’s Amore

    1,122 words

    It’s February 14th, and love is in the air. What better way to soundtrack today’s romantic escapades than with Alessandra Mussolini — the granddaughter of Il Duce himself — and her sultry, Japanese-released city-pop record, Amore?

    Released in 1982 exclusively for the Japanese market, (more…)

  • February 7, 2020 Scott Weisswald 10
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    Iggy & the Stooges’ Raw Power

    1,563 wordsCover of Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power.

    Iggy and the Stooges released the proto-punk slammer Raw Power on this day, February 7th, in 1973. It’s a raw, aggressive record that set the tone for genres as diverse in sound and era as punk, hardcore, grunge, and metal. Raw Power is also an early example of the importance of mixing and the dangers — or benefits — of studio control being handed to musicians.  (more…)

  • January 29, 2020 Scott Weisswald 22
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    Billie Eilish’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

    2,210 wordsCover of Billie Eilish's "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?"

    Billie Eilish is the youngest person to ever be awarded Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards, for her debut effort WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? [1] At just 18, she swept the ceremonies, earning over 60 awards in categories that ranged from Best New Artist to Best Song. (more…)

  • January 24, 2020 Scott Weisswald 7
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    Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats

    1,224 wordsCover of the Frank Zappa album Hot Rats.

    One of the first albums to be recorded on 16-track tape, Hot Rats spawned a jazz standard, a sprawling meditation on prostitution, and some of Captain Beefheart’s best vocal work outside of Trout Mask Replica. It’s mostly instrumental, but does not lack any substance, and the sounds it contains are both timeless and reflective of the late 1960s. (more…)

  • January 22, 2020 Scott Weisswald 2
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    Poppy’s I Disagree

    1,973 wordsCover of Poppy's album, I Disagree.

    Poppy, the mildly unsettling YouTube sensation-turned-bestselling pop singer, released her newest album on January 10th. It’s called I Disagree, and it’s an apt title — much of this record is a violent, abrasive eschewing of both Poppy’s previous work and the rules that govern music in general, much like the hyperpop sensibilities of breakthrough act 100 Gecs or veterans of the deconstruction genre like Grimes, (more…)

  • September 5, 2019 James J. O'Meara 16
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    White Rock III:
    Towards an Aesthetic of Musical Softness

    4,534 words

    Greg Prato
    The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s
    London: Jawbone, 2018

    “They kind of moved it away from just mellow/hippie/campfire music and into something new – something that was consciously pursuing the aesthetic of softness. (more…)

  • February 28, 2019 Spencer J. Quinn 12
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    A Dissident Remembers Jim Croce

    Jim Croce

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    Jim Croce may be one of the most overlooked and underrated singer-songwriters of the rock era. This may be because his ideas often pre-date rock-‘n’-roll, and are in some ways anti-rock for eschewing themes pertaining to youth and rebellion. A cursory look at his best songs reveals that few songwriters are as adept at chronicling experiences which are uniquely and universally masculine. (more…)

  • February 12, 2019 Fenek Solère 13
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    Kate Bush, the Faerie Queene

    2,285 words

    In springing flowre the image of thy day;
    Ah see the Virgin Rose, how sweetly shee
    Doth first peepe forth with bashfull modestee

    — Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

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  • January 24, 2019 Fenek Solère 16
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    Dancing in the Dark:
    Bruce Springsteen & the Betrayal of Blue-Collar America

    2,352 words

    Lights out tonight
    Trouble in the heartland . . .

    –“Badlands” (1978)

    I was sold on Springsteen the moment I first heard the mournful wail of his harmonica as he began to sing “The River”:

    (more…)

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