UGH, God. Touché, good sir.

‘Fraid so. And that’s not even the worst to come.

At 35, this happens:

http://www.theonion.com/article/lifelong-love-affair-with-music-ends-at-age-35-1199

Yesssss, that is one tract of poptimism I could get behind.
And also, The Silicone Veil you guys. So good. (Though admittedly less poppy than Ten Love Songs.)

answer: michael bubble.

shiiiit i’m 29, does that mean i’ve only got a few months left before i start talking about how there are no ‘real artists’ like the strokes anymore?

Don’t forget that music also sucks if teenage girls like it. I mean, if a man in his twenties can’t relate to it, is it even music?

Fellow 9th hitter here. A coach once advised me to try and get hit by a pitch, cause it was the only way I’d get on base.

Sort of like listening to “25” on purpose, so you can comment on an Adele thread.

Sounds like a depressing-ass Thanksgiving.

Eh, I’d go with a mediocre amber ale.

But perhaps that’s because I first heard it in the context of the album. By the time that song comes around in a front-to-back listen of 21, her woe-is-me schtick feels incredibly hollow and inauthentic. Now, vocally, I think Adele is a once-in-a-generation talent … but the nature of her music makes it so much better as single, radio material.

Grantland….. 🙁
http://giant.gfycat.com/AssuredDecisiveGangesdolphin.gif

Suck it, 2pac.

Nothing in the Known Universe > Baseball

i actually discovered suzanne sundfor from reading comments from you guys 🙂

DH isn’t real baseball

Busted.
50+ comments? guess I better mosey on over and talk about Adele…

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That Adele/Turkey Dinner comparison is quite good.

So dumb. upvote.

Sundforism

I was gonna say, Tom’s, “she is bigger than the music business” is a little uncalled for. It’s 2015, we should be above body shaming like that.

Rap > Baseball

Haha. I got Death Grips on mine this week, too!

Oh, I agree and love Marina, et al. I mean in comparison to her MOR contemporaries, she’s not that boring. I’m not ready to burn her at the soccer-mom stake.

I feel like we need to start an underground poptimist movement around Ten Love Songs because it deserves all the awareness.

No no no. Let’s keep going with the baseball talk.

Wait till Adele: 31, it will be all she listens to

There’s a whole world of great cathartic pop singers to explore before surrendering to the reign of Adele. I know It’s the same name again and again, but you could try Marina and the Diamonds’ Froot and the always amazing, always underrated, Susanne Sundfor’s Ten Love Songs.

I could spend all day on fivethirtyeight – my second favorite site.

Stoning commencing in 3, 2,…

Yeah that’s totally true, but Janelle is a much more imaginative artist. Looking past the fact that her albums are bold concept albums. She just has a lot of ideas in general, whether that’s her artistic vision with Wondaland Records or her varied musical styling/characterizations on her albums.

This is just my 2 cents – Janelle’s vision and execution is vibrant in her output, and as great as Adele is she simply operates in specific MOR wheel house of sound and emotion.

Spotify decided it was a good idea to put Death Grips on my discover playlist, and it was the worst kind of surprise on my commute.

Haha yeah, I was just being a pedantic stathead snob. I shoulda hashtagged it as such. It’s a situational thing anyway and subject to many more factors than just: “This is what Bill James or Nate Silver once wrote, I think.” I just don’t get many opportunities to talk baseball on Stereogum.

I was gonna let this dog lie but I can’t. The concept of putting a line-up together based solely on Sabermetrics is flawed. Sabermetrics do indicate that your overall “best” hitter should bat 2. But if you have an absolute speed merchant as your leadoff hitter then a more traditional lineup is advisable. IE having a bat control guy at 2 followed by your best hitter at 3 and your power guys at 4 and 5. AKA – the old school way to set up a lineup. Bochy has one 3 World Series in the past 6 years with a traditional line-up. Sabermetrics are nice. But old school remains the best school. The Giants relative dominance of the MLB this decade speak volumes against a slavish adherence to Sabermetrics.

And now…..baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack to Adele!!!!