I'm watching a particular youtubist, or youtuber if you want, that goes by the handle TheNeedleDrop. If you don't know who he is, I'll explain quickly. He is a reviewer of music albums who talks about the album, give his thoughts, and then a solid numeric score. Usually a six. I think he's pretty good. Well, I mean I know he's good, he has the viewer base to back that up. So maybe I should say that I think he is a fairly good reviewer, based on watching five or six videos of his. I also am lead to believe that he is a, to put it unreasonably harshly, hipster douche bag. Like I said, unreasonably harsh. What's worse is that I agree with him about a lot of the things he says, maybe that also makes me a hipster douche bag. There are worse things to be, though.
I find that I disagree with some of his views and opinions usually when it's concerning things that hipster douche bags like TheNeedleDrop and I would usually disagree on. I loved FIDLAR's second album Too and Tyler, the Creator's third album Cherry Bomb. TheNeedleDrop, on the other hand, gave Too a four out of ten, and Cherry Bomb a three out of ten. I know this is futile to complain about because in the end, opinions are just that, opinions. However, I feel like the root of our differences lie in the fact that Mr.NeedleDrop (or is that your father?) takes more into account the value of lyrics and production value rather than how the music makes you feel. Saying it like that makes me feel slightly childish, but there it is and I feel like it's the truth, too. I mean, he was pretty spot on about FIDLAR's lyrics, while I think they're less elementary than their debut, they still are pretty whiny and bratty. What he seems to lose sight of in his review is that that's just fucking punk. West coast rich kid punk, sure, but it's not like it isn't a theme in other punk outfits. In the case of NeedleDrop vs. Cherry Bomb he makes it out to be some sort of disrespect to the hip-hop world. I get it, it's not the best album. Especially by the standards of pop music right now. Even with Kendrick Lamar's very well received album To Pimp a Butterfly, of which TheNeedleDrop rated a ten out of ten, making rap with jazz influences more acceptable, or what ever, in modern pop charts, Tyler's attempt at branching out pretty much fell on dead ears. That has always depressed me, because again, it's really not that great lyrically or production wise, but it feels real damn good.
I guess what I'm saying is that opinions don't matter and we all suck.
I find that I disagree with some of his views and opinions usually when it's concerning things that hipster douche bags like TheNeedleDrop and I would usually disagree on. I loved FIDLAR's second album Too and Tyler, the Creator's third album Cherry Bomb. TheNeedleDrop, on the other hand, gave Too a four out of ten, and Cherry Bomb a three out of ten. I know this is futile to complain about because in the end, opinions are just that, opinions. However, I feel like the root of our differences lie in the fact that Mr.NeedleDrop (or is that your father?) takes more into account the value of lyrics and production value rather than how the music makes you feel. Saying it like that makes me feel slightly childish, but there it is and I feel like it's the truth, too. I mean, he was pretty spot on about FIDLAR's lyrics, while I think they're less elementary than their debut, they still are pretty whiny and bratty. What he seems to lose sight of in his review is that that's just fucking punk. West coast rich kid punk, sure, but it's not like it isn't a theme in other punk outfits. In the case of NeedleDrop vs. Cherry Bomb he makes it out to be some sort of disrespect to the hip-hop world. I get it, it's not the best album. Especially by the standards of pop music right now. Even with Kendrick Lamar's very well received album To Pimp a Butterfly, of which TheNeedleDrop rated a ten out of ten, making rap with jazz influences more acceptable, or what ever, in modern pop charts, Tyler's attempt at branching out pretty much fell on dead ears. That has always depressed me, because again, it's really not that great lyrically or production wise, but it feels real damn good.
I guess what I'm saying is that opinions don't matter and we all suck.
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