Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Che Tibby,
(i’m assuming the Lorde is still the wee girl and the friend who featured on RNZ a few years back?)
No, just the girl, sans friend.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
In fact, these dudes are just acting like fanboys - exactly the same sort of fan reactions that teen girls notoriously have for Justin Bieber and One Direction - obsessing over their idol on Twitter and Facebook (and *ahem* blogs),
Well, yes, I have ended up writing rather a lot about this particular pop artist. But I'm fascinated by it all. I've been writing about popular music for more than three decades and you don't see this kind of thing very often. It's such a good story. And I like the tunes.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Wammo,
New Zealand has been trolled by Sweetman….again….lol.
Heh. Guess so.
I've written what I have to sayin the Friday Music post.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Lilith __,
Lorde live on French TV today.
There's also a clip of 'Royals' from the same show. Which is hosted by the super-cool Antoine de Caunes!
http://www.canalplus.fr/c-divertissement/c-musique/pid5065-live-du-grand-journal.html
It looks like she's on basically the same European promo tour that Lane Del Rey died on last year.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to JacksonP,
While I agree with all you’ve said, the man in question just seems to lap up criticism as if it was praise. There is no difference, when all you want is to put yourself in the frame.
Yes, you're probably right. But it actually made me angry.
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Oh, wow. And in comes Simon Sweetman to be a patronising dick
She made this music in her bedroom at home – alone, went the original lie.
Really? Who said that? As far as Im aware, the songs have always been acknowledged as a collaboration. It’s hardly like some evil foreign mega-producer was flown in under cover of night. It’s a little studio in Morningside.
Except I don’t get the buzz around this EP at all – sorta extraordinary to think that Lorde has gone on to appear on Billboard covers and play Jools Holland and whatever else. Hey, good on her, if that’s what she wants – and I’m sure she doesn’t even know what she wants – that’s all fine if fame is what you are after.
Fucksake: “good on her if that’s what she wants” – because real artists don’t want to be on Later With Jools Holland? And : “I’m sure she doesn’t even know what she wants”? Oh, really …
Look, it’s fine not to like the music. But this is NOT OKAY:
Actually all Tennis Court is – really – is another here-today/gone-tomorrow song. And this 16 year old is still being sexualised in the selling of her music – it’s just to dudes that wank over Farmers lingerie catalogues rather than being honest and hiring porn.
No, Simon Sweetman. It’s you who has written that about a 16 year-old girl. You stupid, talentless fucking fuck.
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Kumara Republic,
The campaign is expected to come under attack from the Government, and has already been slated by Right-wing blogger Whaleoil.
Whaleoil's ability to do his masters' bidding is amazing. Clearly Judith Collins has spoken. Here's his bizarre post on the "mad dogs at the Commerce Commission".
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Paul has some more good commentary in his NBR guest editorial.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Deborah,
Over at Red Alert, there’s a set of responses from the three leadership candidates to our Hilary’s excellent question on disability issues.
Spoiler: Shane Jones' response is dreadful.
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Holy shit -- I got this by email from a reader:
I went through Psychometric testing for a role in one of the central government agencies and it asked several questions about God (capital G so probably the Christian one).
I answered each of these very carefully, but as an atheist. The result was that they didn't want to take me further along the process because the tests had raised questions about my personal ethics.
The test questions were very definitely American, and of dubious value for use in New Zealand. Apparently cultural bias in IQ testing is something that is well understood but in psychometric testing its far more important just to have a product to sell.
Ironically the HR person who set up the tests for me to take called it "hooey", and I later learned I would have been working in a highly dysfunctional environment.
At which point I think this kind of testing gets elevated from merely being ropey to an actual human rights issue. And it's being used on our dollar as taxpayers.