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Perfect Pussy – I Have Lost All Desire for Feeling
I’ve been championing Perfect Pussy’s debut tape for months now, to the point where it is, without question, completely infuriating to anyone who has ever had even a passing interaction with me. Fortunately for me, I give exactly 0.00 fucks about this, because it’s not everyday that I find a band that has every single one of my boxes ticked. Great name? Duh. High-energy? You bet. Anthemic fem-punk? Oh, hells yes. Lyrics that speak to my human experience? “I AM FULL OF RAGE, I AM FULL OF RAGE, I AM FULL OF RAGE.” Two thumbs way up on that one. Songs that make me want to get up and smash things with a huge shit-eating grin on my face? I have lost all desire for feeling, sure, but Perfect Pussy does things to me that send searing bolts of twinkling electricity in through my ears and all throughout my body and these feelings are good, so these feelings can stay.
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Meek Mill – “Lil Nigga Snupe”
This song has been out for a minute, but finally found a home on Meek Mill’s beyond excellent Dreamchasers 3 mixtape, which finds the First Mate of the H.M.S. Maybach Music Group directing the spotlight away from him and his famous friends and towards his non-famous friends that he thinks should be famous. Loosely, this includes his recently freed partner Omelly and his dude Louis V Gutta, whose name is just a bunch of other rap names thrown in a blender, but whatever. Besides being ridiculously rad that articulates what makes Meek such an exceptional talent (pathos, storytelling, being able to rap for days in all caps, etc.), “Lil Nigga Snupe” becomes double-extra affecting given its context. Judging by his post-Boozie drawl, showcased on the first track on Maybach Music Group’s Self-Made 3, the recently-slain rapper was the next guy from the MMG confederation to show star potential. Meek clearly loved him, tucking a warm extended freestyle from him into this track’s intro before the track proper, and then loading his signature yelp with emotion when discussing the socioeconomics of the hood that led Snupe to slinging and an untimely demise. They call it “the trap” for a reason—not everybody’s lucky enough to escape from it, and even when you think you see the light, you can still be snuffed out.
Haim – “If I Could Change Your Mind.”
It’s no secret that Noisey is a fan of Haim, so I guess no one should be surprised that their new record Days Are Gone is what I listened to, exclusively, this week. Specifically? “If I Could Change Your Mind.” And, for real, I listened to it over and over and over again. This is a song that, somehow, mashes the opposite worlds of overt earnestness and callous bitterness into something that’s both accessible and tangible and, perhaps most importantly, human. The fluttering, bouncy beat gets caught in your head faster than the latest Miley Cyrus track, and you’ll find yourself humming the lyrics on the walk home from work, thinking of that ex of yours who you don’t want to think about but have to think about because the goddamn lyrics are about trying to change their mind so they fall back in love with you and you can hold hands and skip down the sidewalk while listening to Haim in the autumn air as leaves crunch below your feet and everything is perfect in the world. Except it’s not. Because, again, you want them to change their mind. Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, this is a very confusing song. But DGAF. I’m going to go ahead and listen to it again.
Eric Sundermann, Assistant Editor
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Lorde – “Buzzcut Season”
Earlier this week I went see one of Lorde’s three sold out NY/BK shows. If you don’t know who she is, why? We wrote about her months ago back when “Royals” had some interweb buzz, but had not yet developed into a chart-topping monster smash. In case you missed the memo, Ella Yelich-O’Connor is 16, she’s from New Zealand and she’s already incurred the wrath of both Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift fans by essentially saying they were bad role models for young girls because they were A, unattainable (Taylor) and B, kinda anti-feminist (Selena). She is big news. ANYWAY. Lorde has a full-length record out and it’s actually good, particularly this song. It’s moody and teenage and unabashedly catchy and she really does have a way with layering harmonies. It fills that spot between The xx—who put me to sleep instantly—and Lykke Li (and shhh, Lana Del Rey). Plus when she performs she sort of hunches over in an inelegant, I’m-possessed-like-the-mom-in-The-Conjuring-way, which is like, way easier to replicate than Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” dance.
Kim Taylor Bennett, Style Editor
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Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
You’re either all over it and it’s yesterday’s news to you, in which case, bully for you, or you’ve got no idea what I’m talking about, which prompts the questions: Are you even an antler tattoo-having, Greenpoint beardo douche/black skinny guy on a skateboard, bro? What are you doing reading VICE anyway?
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