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Azealia Banks is not special. lol
Why would you say that when you could instead just say you have absolutely no taste?
Azealia would be an A-list star except for that she has behavioral problems and has burned every bridge she ever made and been dropped from every record deal she ever signed, forcing her to be an independent artist for at least five years. But last week she finally signed to Parlophone.
I will say that Beyonce’s album did lead to one positive outcome. When Beyonce did a cheap knockoff Azealia Banks album, she triggered a critical reassessment of Azealia which lead to a resurgance in her popularity. Culturally oblivious straight people finally realized that Azealia was far ahead of her time. And now Azealia finally has a record deal again and she’s coming for blood.
ReplyCopy URLDo you think the same people who had the audacity to nominate Jack Harlow for Best Rap Album care what the music sounds like? IMO, she definitely did something wrong because it’s just obscene what they’re doing to her at this point.
The people that voted for Jack Harlow are probably NOT even the same people that voted in the R&B Field.
ReplyCopy URLHoney, 24 years into her career, that flop bitch Christina Aguilera keeps getting Grammy nominations. Eat it!
Taylor Swift is currently in her 16th year of her career and got nominated in the GF for the 16th time. Yet you seem to think she’s a flop, no?
Live by the sword die by the sword babe.
ReplyCopy URLWhy would you say that when you could instead just say you have absolutely no taste?
Azealia would be an A-list star except for that she has behavioral problems and has burned every bridge she ever made and been dropped from every record deal she ever signed, forcing her to be an independent artist for at least five years. But last week she finally signed to Parlophone.
I will say that Beyonce’s album did lead to one positive outcome. When Beyonce did a cheap knockoff Azealia Banks album, she triggered a critical reassessment of Azealia which lead to a resurgance in her popularity. Culturally oblivious straight people finally realized that Azealia was far ahead of her time. And now Azealia finally has a record deal again and she’s coming for blood.
I guess I don’t prefer someone who raps fast and inaudibly over early ’90s house beats.
ReplyCopy URLAzealia Banks is not special. lol
I mean, despite never going mainstream and being the most messy person ever, a crap ton of artists mention her as an influence. Her sound and aesthetics are being cribbed years later. And both Broke With Expensive Taste and Fantasea are two of the strongest female hip-hop projects of the last 20 years. And not all her music is house.
ReplyCopy URLI guess I don’t prefer someone who raps fast and inaudibly over early ’90s house beats.
She isn’t inaudible at all except for when she chooses to be. Look up her lyrics and she is almost always rapping and singing in complete coherent sentences with layered rhyme schemes and layered double entendres and word play. She is one of the only rappers male or female that can do speed, word play, rhyme scheme, melody, vocal performance, all at the same time. She switches her flow multiple times per song, effortlessly weaving verses into bridges into choruses. And her taste in production is impeccable. It’s not only the vintage 90’s NYC house beats. It’s breakbeat. It’s techno. It’s deep house. It’s trap. It’s electro-clash. It’s cumbia and Afro-latino beats. It’s punk. It’s indie rock. She has worked with legendary producers, and brings them into her own sonic world. She has worked with Lone, Paul Oakenfold, Hudson Mohawke, Galcher Lustwerk, Machinedrum, Ariel Pink, the list goes on and on and it would be even more if she wasn’t industry blacklisted. The way that she can recognize talent and innovation and bring all these collaborators and styles all into her melting pot is unparalleled in this generation. She is in her own league.
ReplyCopy URLI mean, despite never going mainstream and being the most messy person ever, a crap ton of artists mention her as an influence. Her sound and aesthetics are being cribbed years later. And both Broke With Expensive Taste and Fantasea are two of the strongest female hip-hop projects of the last 20 years. And not all her music is house.
Azealia Banks is basically an A-list star even with the entire industry trying to block her out. 212 has over 200 million Youtube views and 100 million Spotify streams. So yes, she is a mainstream star. Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift are mainstream stars, but when was the last time you went to a party and heard a Lady Gaga song? And when was the last time you went to a party and heard an Azealia Banks song? Azealia does not have the support of the industry, but she has the support of the culture.
ReplyCopy URLLong essays explaining Azealia’s “impact” in the Pitchfork circles is so cringe. Azealia’s “impact” is dragging every celebrity who made it over her, crying about colorism while sleeping with white men and being banned from social media. Nobody cares. Megan >>>>>>>>>>>> Azealia. It’s not even a question.
ReplyCopy URLLong essays explaining Azealia’s “impact” in the Pitchfork circles is so cringe. Azealia’s “impact” is dragging every celebrity who made it over her, crying about colorism while sleeping with white men and being banned from social media. Nobody cares. Megan >>>>>>>>>>>> Azealia. It’s not even a question.
Yeah let’s see if people are still calling Megan a decade defining artist ten years after her breakthrough. She’s only been famous a few years and already Traumazine was a flop. Megan is talented but she’s not doing anything groundbreaking enough to hold our interest. Her flow is generic. Meanwhile Azealia is over ten years into her career, industry blacklisted, no record deal in years, and still an absolute mainstay on dancefloors across the world. It’s not Pitchfork internet music, it is party anthem music. From the most mainstream top-40 normie straight people bars to the most underground house and techno events, you’re gonna hear Azealia, and it’s gonna fuck the speakers. Even without putting an album out in years, her grip on the culture is only strengthening to the point that even Beyonce is trying to be her.
ReplyCopy URLSince Renaissance has successfully been nominated for Dance Album, do y’all think albums like Chromatica and Future Nostalgia would’ve had the same fate if submitted there?
Hard to say since there was a panel back then. Both Dua and Gaga submitted tracks from such albums to Best Dance Recording and were blocked from the final list.
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If it was popular vote I’m sure both would get in.Long essays explaining Azealia’s “impact” in the Pitchfork circles is so cringe. Azealia’s “impact” is dragging every celebrity who made it over her, crying about colorism while sleeping with white men and being banned from social media. Nobody cares. Megan >>>>>>>>>>>> Azealia. It’s not even a question.
I’m not interested in somebody vs somebody else nonsense. Nor am I interested in defending Azealia or discussing her behaviors. I do however believe she was one of the most raw talents of any rapper to come on the scene in the past 20 years, has definitely had a surprising amount of impact and influence, and has a couple of very strong projects.
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