blink-182 - One More Time… (October 20, 2023) • Page 160

I do really really loathe the pivot to video. Why is it so impossible to just read something quietly without like 6 ads and autoplay music happening at the same time.

 

The song is worth it even just for the euphoric synth line towards the end imo

 

Shit I'm with you. The internet has been made extremely narrow and streamlined with promoted bullshit and ads a plenty. The 00s were such a glorious time to be able to find shit and not have all the results be generic cut and paste promotions. I miss not having to watch 2 minutes worth of ads to read or watch something.

 

yes, that's the other best part of the song.

 

Shoutout to the background “woo!” after the first chorus in TERRIFIED, before the intro riff comes back in.

 

Oh, totally agree, just feel like it's harder to find, and further and farther between. There's some good video/audio content out there too. Just don't find it as prevalent or popular as certain things.

 

Looks like they will debut at #2 on the charts with 103,600.
https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=338131&title=IT%E2%80%99S-THE-DOGGONE-TOP-20

 

That's awesome. Good for them. Breaking 100k is sweet.

Seeing "500 albums" next to Drake made me lol though.

 

haha just heard this. Epic.

 

I'm still trying to figure out how the lyrics are "welcome terrified" and not "we'll go terrified"

 

They’re not lol

 

Lame.Album fknig RULEZZ.

 

Aaron Rubin confirmed it's "we'll go" lol. Band should've given the lyrics to the team behind putting these lyric videos out there and onto the sleeves and shit >.<

 

Sorry if it’s already been discussed, but do we think when the physical stuff has to be printed they haven’t decided on the album title yet?

 

where did he confirm that? I believe you I'm just curious lol

 

Maybe Mark tore them up again

 

I don’t have the vinyl so don’t know what it says on there. But my guess has always been they needed to get those pressed and ready for launch.

 

Anyone have this above Untitled?

 

babe wake up there’s pitchfork discourse on chorus again

 

I too prefer the essay approach of Jason's review (mixing one's personal experience with the artist/music you're tackling). It just has this potential of giving another layer to the work considered, as if it's never complete without someone's worldview absorbing it. Three-dimensional; critical intimacy instead of critical distance. That said:

1) How hard is it to have a more personal tone if you just don't enjoy the music, being that "not liking x" often comes with a certain repulsiveness, distance, coldness?

2) I think that Pitchfork review is actually very good. While other publications - such as Rolling Stone - didn't go beyond surface level and were just plain ignorant of their discography ("Pop punk’s favorite pranksters are finally ready to admit they’re not just older but wiser too"), Pitchfork's writer clearly did her "homework". It's well-written, well-structured, properly balancing the descriptions of OMT songs with callbacks to the band's past stuff (even Flyswatter is quoted). Overall, in a short amount of words, a nice exploration of a Peter Pan Syndrome as blink's main theme and the main theme of the review itself. And then, at the end, it's kinda funny because the issues she has with this band/album are some of the things that connected me to blink and made me love them to this day. Namely the obsession with youth, since I've never equated youth with being vapid. Even the overused word "immaturity" is often just an ageist shortcut to say being young is bad, unworthy, inferior...

But as much as I may disagree with her and love "the nostalgia snake catching its tail", some reactions are almost painful. I mean, the writer is, at the very least, trying to engage/describe something instead of being a fan(atic) shouting "pretentious/hip/snob".

 

I used to love doing end of the year lists and participating in the discussion around them as a means to share new music, find new music, and really hone in on my personal tastes and come up with a list that reflects me and who I am but somewhere along the way the joy of it all just seemed to get lost in favor of the content farming you’re talking about, and as I mentioned before ITT every time an album comes out there’s too much talk about how it fits onto someone’s end of the year list or whatever. Like when someone says an album is good but it’s not their album of the year what am I supposed to do with that? Or vice versa. Doesn’t make sense to me. Idk it just became this competitive thing that lacks the spirit of what doing those kinds of lists meant to me 10-15 years ago. With the accelerated consumption of music due to streaming it just feels like albums are no longer really discussed in length any further than the month they come out, sometimes even just the week they come out and then it’s on to the next big release to rinse and repeat the same “it’s not my AOTY but it’s good” discourse over and over again. It kind of bums me out.

 

Felt to me like the P4k reviewer was referencing obscure side projects and praising the DED EP in an attempt to legitimise their fandom and in turn their largely negative review.

 

103k and a #2 debut is pretty sweet. But come on people, if we all each stream the album 1,000 more times before Friday we can get that #1!

 

It’s “Welcome, Terrified” on the vinyl lyric sheet. Also nowhere on the vinyl artwork does it indicate the album title is “One More Time”