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Your Daily Songza

i haven't linked any music think pieces in a while and i don't have frooz's gift of making my post a think piece, so here are the two best think pieces i have read this month

this one for the troll factor

He’s Drake before he released “Hold On, We’re Going Home”; Taylor Swift before she released 1989; Kanye before he dropped My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Bieber is teetering at the point where negativity turns to critical and public acclaim.

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http://noisey.vice.com/blog/its-time-to ... -seriously

and this one because grimes <3

The intensity of Boucher’s musical obsessions can make her seem like a mad pop scientist. On her bustling Tumblr page, she keeps track of her research into a cultural universe that seems, like its physical counterpart, to be expanding at an increasing rate. Her followers might encounter a snippet from the Japanese soundtrack composer Yoko Kanno, or a fan-made video set to the music of the electronic producer Aphex Twin, or a recent Selena Gomez single—which, Boucher has discovered, sounds particularly arresting in a car equipped with subwoofers. In her own songs, Boucher takes delight in rewriting the old music-industry story of the female performer in the spotlight and the male mastermind behind the curtain. “It’s like I’m Phil Spector, and then there’s Grimes, which is the girl group,” she says.

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/ ... or-misfits
 
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