What artist makes you feel like you’re eating plain oatmeal?

[Chocol8]

but half these drawling cash-ins... ugh. It's like, "Dude, just stop. Aren't you from L.A.??"

Yep, just like Vanilla Ice and other suburbanites pretending to be a gangsta, just with a different twist to exploit and cash in on.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Haha. Maybe I can relate. I like Mac DeMarco. He has pretty much become indie folk at this point. And I could see how he could be like plain oatmeal to some people but not to me. To me he’s like post Beatles Lennon and McCartney home recordings. But I admit he was better before he went acoustic.

But that mumford and sons and edward sharp old timey cosplay stuff is so uncool Definitely oatmeal with raisins

My niece and I wrote a bunch of songs that were folkie based. So she would clue me in on some newer artists and we actually saw a few of the bands live. Like a lot of bands, the albums just don't do justice. A few surprising shows were Iron & Wine and River Whyless. Very tight bands with a lot of interesting stuff going on.

 

[AlbertA]

It's always conspicuous when everyone and their brother suddenly and coincidentally makes a U-turn at the exact same time.

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Proxy?

 

[mbenigni]

Proxy?

Hey now, this is an off-topic thread!

 

[Chocol8]

He is an amazing person and delivers an important message about his culture.
He is meaningful, relevant, compassionate, punk, beautiful...

I think there are many reasons to support artists like him, rather than not.

You can say the same things about a lot of young Puerto Ricans who can also sing and rap, play instruments, etc. Bad Bunny seems like the Monkeys or Sex Pistols or whatever fake act put together by producers and promoted as an image. He makes for a great marketing package obviously, but I see no musical ability beyond what you can expect at a middle-school talent show. Actually less!

 

[Orvillain]

I only posted it to troll you. lol.

 

[sashimi]

The Eagles

 

[KFF]

...rinse, repeat until your soul files for bankruptcy.

Sellout? More like voluntary corporate merger.

...tap water with a lemon slice for flair.

...engineered to soundtrack your midlife crisis without ever making you question why you're having one.

If blandness were a crime, they'd be serving life in beige.

Shit Sandwich

Poetically scathing stuff there. Love it.

Dug Yellow at release. Was hopeful. But... first single peak... to my ears. Referred to them as Le Beige from album 2 onward.

 

[KFF]

Bad Bunny seems like the Monkeys or Sex Pistols or whatever fake act put together by producers and promoted as an image. He makes for a great marketing package obviously, but I see no musical ability beyond what you can expect at a middle-school talent show. Actually less!

What was his involvement with wrestling... WWE?

Usually a bit of a "tell" there. Mainstream Machine or bust!

 

[Los-D]

See also…

… perfectly edible, but fuck no if I have the choice.

 

[Chocol8]

What was his involvement with wrestling... WWE?

Usually a bit of a "tell" there. Mainstream Machine or bust!

It's all marketing. The collaborations, WWE, fashion stuff. He is part of a well orchestrated machine. It's nothing new, but for some reason people still fall for it.

 

[AutomationBias]

Just have to point out that the awesome and amazingly talented James Hong is still alive at 96 years old.

 

[DrewJD82]

I’m just joining this thread but I’m going to say anything from that 2010s era 1800s cosplay stomp-clap ‘indie folk’ bullshit that was so prevalent on the indie rock radio stations at the time. You know beards and handlebar mustaches and pork pie hats and skin tight jeans, acoustic guitars and banjos and mandolins and the whole band joining in for the chorus.

One of my best buddies since childhood I’ve spoken of here before, drummer dude who went to Berklee and spent 2 years taking every Mike Mangini lab he could, he moved to Nasville in ‘09 and maybe 6 months later was playing a suitcase for a kick drum, a hihat and a snare, playing with a bunch of people that looked like a picture from the late 1800’s.

The whole band came up to visit for a weekend and the first night they’re tossing change and singles on the coffee table, pooling their money together to get some food and the two of us who still lived there said “Oh don’t worry guys, we got food and drinks this weekend, we’re just stoked ya came to visit” and everyone is thankful and cheery. A few minutes later my drummer buddy comes to see me alone in the kitchen and says “Hey, I wanted to warn you guys before we got here but they’re not broke, don’t offer to pay for anything. It’s all for show, I’ll explain later”

It was all a LARP. Every one of them came from an upper middle class home and was living in Nashville on their parent’s dime. They’d pull that act everywhere and when it didn’t work out they’d just buy dinner with the money they actually had, or get a hotel room instead of crashing on the floor of an audience member’s house. They toured around for about 18 months pulling that crap before they got bored with it and split up. Part of me thought it was hilarious and the other part was disgusted at taking advantage of people when they didn’t actually have to, which I believe is a direct result of growing up so privileged that cosplaying as the poors is fun and had a single one of them actually known what it’s like to go without food they would have slapped the shit out of everyone else for the LARP.

 

[Chocol8]

the other part was disgusted at taking advantage of people when they didn’t actually have to

It sounds like they may of "had" to. Either take advantage of fans/friends or take advantage of family. Had in quotes because I don't know how much they were making, and also because the low pay long odds music career was a choice. I try not to be hard on people who try to chase that dream because for most it is not an easy path.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

[…] The whole band came up to visit for a weekend and the first night they’re tossing change and singles on the coffee table, pooling their money together to get some food and the two of us who still lived there said “Oh don’t worry guys, we got food and drinks this weekend, we’re just stoked ya came to visit” and everyone is thankful and cheery. A few minutes later my drummer buddy comes to see me alone in the kitchen and says “Hey, I wanted to warn you guys before we got here but they’re not broke, don’t offer to pay for anything. It’s all for show, I’ll explain later”

It was all a LARP. […]

The subject of this thread has just changed from "bands that sound like plain oatmeal tastes" to "bands that ask for oatmeal".

 

[Eldorado]

Wishbone Ash.

 

[2dor]

Wait a sec... so do we like or dislike oatmeal around here?

 

[metropolis_4]

I don't really want to eat plain oatmeal, ever, but damn, it sure seems necessary for there to be
all the other .... more delicious.... types of oatmeal.

There’s something very Tao in that

When we recognize oatmeal that is delicious we create plain oatmeal

 

[Frodebro]

Pink Floyd.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I am extremely confident that I could find 100 Spanish speaking young men who have better voices and who can sing better without traveling more than 10-15 miles from my home.

So, why don't you produce them and never have to work again?