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Post by ¬ on Feb 12, 2015 13:29:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 14:44:47 GMT
The interview part was good but i-D's introduction was so lame..also unless I'm mistaken when has SOPHIE ever been a boy dressed up as a girl? Wasn't it determined long ago that he had a friend in drag or something to that nature on stage for whatever show that was? I could be wrong though.
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Post by lost in the file system on Feb 12, 2015 14:58:35 GMT
Yes you are correct it was SOPHIE's friend. Lol SOPHIE is liek sooo confusing! Ugh @ the media 4 everrrrrrr
Really cool to know that Attachment was their first project together! "I lived in a big house and then my parents got divorced so lived in two big houses." Love GFOTY so much
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 15:02:27 GMT
smh, but LOL yeah I love GFOTY and her answers so much. "My taste in fashion is like a pink onesie covered in Swarovski crystals with loads of money coming out the pockets and Ugg boots, of course." She makes me want to wear a pair of ugg boots to be honest.
EDIT: Spinee posted a good tweet to sum up my feelings:
I feel like the amount of PC Music that is "kawaii" is such an extremely small margin of all of their work.
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Post by lost in the file system on Feb 12, 2015 15:51:30 GMT
Agreed. Lame that it has to be branded as such but I guess it's good they're getting buzz... I feel like kawaii more accurately applies to Manicure/Jack Dansu as a whole. PC Music doesn't have like 3D gana floating around like many of the 14 year old tumbler ppl that make internet-y music. I feel like it's pretty clear the label doesn't identify with that but are running parallel and have some similar influences. I wish the club aspect got more attention cuz dats my fav
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Post by ¬ on Feb 12, 2015 16:45:40 GMT
Yea the "kawaii" aspect has been a pet peeve of mine, esp. (I'm going to go off on a tangent now) considering Sophie, Maxo, and now Spinee have all explicitly denied it. The only thing it could possibly apply to, aside from him using a Denpa song once, is perhaps Cook's Illamasqua mix, which even so is almost 3 years old, right? And even then I'd defend Omniboi or Whybray or DZZ w/e because kawaii culture is v. different from the japanese elements they use Basically all PC journalism is a hive of buzzwords, with little consideration of what they're actually talking about. "Post-ringtone" and "bubblegum bass" (sorry for making it) are the classixxx but I'm not trusting anything that uses divisive or kawaii or gender performance or whatever. It perpetuates a cycle of a bunch of nerds hating this stuff because the articles and hype are so shit and tedious, which is a shame when just reading that A. G. Tank Magazine interview would be much better time spent. I don't see much about the influences of, like, R&B or Freestyle or Hudson Mohawke or Cupid & Psyche '85 when these are infinitely more interesting elements to their music I could type all day about the PC / journalism relationship but I won';t considering the music is a thousand times more fun, but this is partially why I'm happy about Hannah being open about stuff like this (y) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 17:26:33 GMT
Yeah overall the best way to view PC Music is literally just taking what they themselves put out and represent instead of trying to like dig into and analyze the things they do and create buzzwords for it lol..I'm not saying trying to write thinkpieces is totally wrong but like...all it's seem to do so far and is create gross misrepresentations of a quite talented bunch of people! And a lot of is just hipster internet guys trying to tear them down bit by bit by making PC Music look "bad" when all they're doing is showing how bad they are for assuming these theories in the first place.
The main thing is when analyzing instead of like you said looking at all the ACTUAL musical influences they just toss around buzzword and generalized concepts (such as the portrayal of feminine qualities, kawaii, "ironic pop", etc.) which quickly and inevitably becomes a stupid circle-jerk.
I also am glad they're doing some interview to try and clear things up, although things like the intro to the interview just make it sad and lame lol. I can't help but read GFOTY's response and feel like she is trying to make interviewers and journalists feel really stupid and I love it LOL. Not because the things she say are stupid, but because they all have these stupid theories and then GFOTY just goes in destroying them and coming up with the best responses ever.
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Post by sunnyta on Feb 12, 2015 18:07:38 GMT
i'm sure maltine likes the kawaii label tho
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Post by notblake on Mar 3, 2015 8:51:17 GMT
Great interview. I love the straight man/clown dynamic they have going through this whole thing. Hannah Diamond is a genius of presentation- this and HDTV cement it. She's like that girl on facebook who is completely different irl, but the human has been cut off, and she's just this (buzzword alert, sorry) uncanny conglomeration of these abstract ideals of perfection.
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