Comments | koganbot: Where "Galaxy," naturally enough, means "Italo" (Top Singles, First Third 2019)

koganbot

Where "Galaxy," naturally enough, means "Italo" (Top Singles, First Third 2019)

Jun 03, 2019 07:17

Was going to use the title "Trap Hegemony And The Italotrot Question" because I knew it would make Chuck Eddy smile; but I decided "Where 'Galaxy,' naturally enough, means 'Italo'"* was funnier, though maybe David Frazer will be the only one to smile. David's the person who came up with the genre title "Italotrot" to describe Hong Jinyoung's "Love ( Read more... )

italodisco, big bang, crayon pop, bullies, freestyle, poll prelims 2019, jvcki wai, trot

Comments 38

Chuck Eddy's Pazz & Jop Product Reports Jan.-Feb. 2019 koganbot June 3 2019, 16:46:07 UTC

PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - January 2019
YEA: Cha Wa: Spyboy (Upt) 8; Tucka: Working With the Feeling (Hit Nation) 7; The Flesh Eaters: I Used To Be Pretty (Yep Roc) 7; Kandace Springs: Indigo (Blue Note) 5; Third Root: Trill Pedagogy - Winter Flex (Third Root EP) 5; Madison Hudson: Silver Lining (Madison Hudson EP) 3; Traveling, Broke, and Out of Gas: Bastard Americana (965532 EP) 3; Reniss: Express, Vol. 2 (New Bell EP) 3; Sassy D: The Queen of Southern Talk Blues (BJ Productions EP) 2; Robot Lords of Tokyo: Rise Robots Rise (Riot EP) 1.
NAY: The Motet: Death or Devotion (Motet) -1; Dbuk: Songs Nine Through Sixteen (Scaunincorporated) -1; Boygenius: Boygenius (Matador EP) -2; Deadwood Drifters: Ashes and Dirt (1112320) -2; Burning Witches: Burning Witches Burning Alive (Nuclear Blast) -2.

PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - February 2019YEA: ¿ Que Vola?: ¿ Que Vola? (No Format) 8; Layale Chaker & Sarafand: Inner Rhyme (In A Circle) 8; People Under The Stairs: Sincerely, The P (Piecelock 70) 7; The Specials: Encore (Island) 7; Merle Hazard ( ... )

Chuck Eddy's Pazz & Jop Product Reports Mar.-Apr. 2019 koganbot June 3 2019, 16:48:31 UTC

PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - March 2019
YEA: Monsta X: Take.2 We Are Here. (Starship Entertainment) 8; Matthew Shipp Trio: Signature (ESP Disk) 8; Little Simz: Grey Area (Age 101) 7; Ivan Conti: Poison Fruit (Far Out) 7; Mykele Deville: Maintain (No Trend EP) 5; Monsta X: Take.1 Are You There? (Starship Entertainment) 5; Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Smells Funny (Rune Grammofon) 5; Maren Morris: Girl (Columbia Nashville) 2; Durand Jones & the Indications: American Love Call (Dead Oceans) 2; Yola: Walk Through Fire (Easy Eye/Nonesuch) 2.
NAY: Wayne Shorter: Emanon (Blue Note) -1; Emily King: Scenery (Ato) -1; Aida Victoria: Silences (Canvasback/ATL) -1; Solange: When I Get Home (Saint/Columbia) -1; Ariana Grande: Thank U, Next (Republic) -1.

PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - April 2019
YEA: Etienne Charles: Carnival - The Sound of a People, Vol. 1 (Culture Shock) 8; Sarah Tandy: Infection in the Sentence (Jazz Re:freshed) 8; The Comet Is Coming: Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (Impluse!) 7; Ibibio Sound Machine: Doko Mien (Merge) 7; ( ... )

Chuck Eddy's Pazz & Jop Product Report May 2019 koganbot June 3 2019, 16:50:30 UTC

PAZZ & JOP PRODUCT REPORT - May 2019
YEA: Suzi Quatro: No Control (Steamhammer) 5; Daughters of Justice: Blood Harmony (Daughters of Justice) 5; Maddie & Tae: One Heart to Another (Mercury EP) 5; Lauren Morrow: Lauren Morrow (958984 EP) 5; Reba McEntire: Stronger Than the Truth (Big Machine ) 5; Lauren Jenkins: No Saint (Big Machine) 3; Carsie Blanton: Buck Up (So Ferocious) 3; Billie Davis: Rosie's Cantina (Market Square) 3; Sarah Ross: Nervous Breakdown (Average Joes) 3; Della Mae: The Butcher Shoppe EP (Rounder EP) 3.
NAY: Abby Anderson: I'm Good (Black River Entertainment EP) -1; Joy Williams: No Place Like You (Sensibility EP) -1; Lucy Rose: No Words Left (Arts & Crafts Productions) -1; Lady Redneck: Duct Tape My Broken Heart (Lady Redneck EP) -1; Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (Darkroom/Interscope) -2.

Freestyle and Italodisco koganbot June 3 2019, 21:23:09 UTC

I'm always worried that I'm not making sense to the reader who doesn't have the least idea what I mean by - for instance - "freestyle" and "Italodisco" (among hundreds of other terms and names and cross references that make criticism unintelligible). Rather than try to explain everything - I'm just not up for it today - I'll link a few examples here, some vintage 1980s-early '90s freestyle tracks. I'm not putting any Italodisco tracks, since the Rocket 101 song I embedded in the post really is a great example of generic Italodisco. Italodisco has similar riffs to freestyle but doesn't pile them atop one another as much and doesn't go as wild with the beats or as heart-rending in the vocals. (And despite the excellent term "Italotrot" that we're affixing to Hong Jinyoung's "Love Tonight," its riff is the sort that could happily grace many a freestyle track.) Anyway, I hope these help:

New York:

Cover Girls "Inside Outside"

Judy Torres "Come Into My Arms"

Cynthia "Change On Me"

Lisette Melendez "A Day In My Life (Without You)"Miami ( ... )

davidfrazer June 4 2019, 12:03:48 UTC

This new fromis_9 B-side sounds Italodisco-ish and perhaps even a bit freestyle-ish.

davidfrazer June 5 2019, 00:00:18 UTC

After listening a few times it started to sound oddly familiar, and i've now realised that it sounds like a faster version of C'mon C'mon by Crayon Pop -- or Vroom Vroom, which you declared to be Italodisco.

Love Rumpumpum was composedby "Anchor, Park Ki Tae, 백곰 (Bumzu), 백구". I wonder if any of them had a hand in those two Crayon Pop songs.

Way seems to be trying to make a living through her YouTube channel koganbot July 2 2019, 08:02:03 UTC

Speaking of Crayon Pop, Asian Boss just posted an interview with Way: seems the members of Crayon Pop were subjected to the same rules and bullshit that many other idol performers are, though she doesn't sound resentful in the least about it - just is happy not to be living under it anymore. I suspect there were a bunch of intricacies and nuances in the personal/personnel relationships that she only hints at: she describes getting kicked out and then asked back, this occurring several times; says same thing happened to other members.

I wish the interviewer had been interested in asking how the group's artistry came about.

In the meantime Way seems to be going full guns over the last month on her YouTube channel, averaging a new video every other day. I haven't had a chance to look; perhaps she provides info about where the artistry came from and gives us more detail about life at Chrome Entertainment.

When I get my wits together I'll try to weave some thoughts about Crayon Pop into a discussion with belecrivain and subdee elsewhere on this ( ... )

Re: Way seems to be trying to make a living through her YouTube channel davidfrazer July 2 2019, 18:07:52 UTC

Asian Junkie has a post about Way's interview and her own YouTube channel, which has several Q&A videos.

BABYMETAL played Glastonbury.

Russian idol LANA debuted to the outrage of international fans who think that white people should not become K-Pop idols.

Thread 7