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Is this really what Boing Boing is about now? Whatever happened to news about cool people making fun things?
Disappointed?
It’s always been a directory of mostly wonderful things.
Quite! I can go pretty much anywhere for Trump news or other divisive political drivel. I personally come here to see wonderful maker oriented articles, which have been in precious short supply lately. I was hoping for something fun today, like an article on converting an 18v lithium tool battery into a cellphone charger to keep my Pokémon Go game going. Instead, it’s mostly just Trump stuff.
How to make caligae: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/make-hobnailed-roman-marching-boots-the-caligae/
Psychedelia and Shamanism: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/the-healing-power-of-ayahuasca/
Cool art: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/gorgeous-teeny-tiny-pencil-drawings/
Rap music, with a spin-off about punk: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/white-rappers/ & https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/the-whitest-of-all-genres/
Debunking alt-med: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/explainer-how-anaedotal-evidence-about-alternative-medicine-can-lead-you-astray/
Mocking the stupid: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/mens-rights-meltdown-at-mcdonalds/
Hipster nonsense: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/employees-at-silicon-valley-start-up-fast-36-hours-each-week/
International politics: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/turkey-6-000-arrested-following-coup-but-that-doesnt-make-it-an-inside-job/
Robots in sweatshops: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/as-sewbots-threaten-asias-sweatshops-we-need-to-decide-who-will-benefit-from-automation/
A discussion of interesting experiences: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/this-happened-once/
An in-depth discussion of kink: https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/explain-it-like-were-vanilla/
Not much gadget advertising in that list, but that’s just because I find those articles tedious. I did see an article on a Kickstarter for a portable synth a few hours ago, though, and something about tennis balls.
To clear that out of my brain, I had to watch this.
Is Tiffany Trump not cool? Or is her song not fun? 
There are thousands of amazing unknown artists creating incredible music to post online that will never get much attention. I’d rather have one of those revealed than an article on some random song a rich girl paid a mastering artist to fix up. To be fair, of all the Trump articles plastered on the front page, this is the most interesting of them and might even be worthy of the space it takes.
It’s far better than this thing at least:
Start a cool unknown music thread. Share some of these artists. If any of them catch the attention of TPTB, they might get front-paged. If not, we’ve got some cool new music and they get a little more exposure. Win all round?
The synth timbres are good and some of the riffs are nice. The ‘bird’ repetition is surprisingly ear-wormy and has hook-like qualities. The auto-tune feels like an intentional aesthetic choice, especially it’s also heavily applied to the studio musicians. The slow pace, the obscured lyrics, the timbres and the bird repetition gives it a nice, dreamy quality. This does very much sound like it’s created on a professional level. The lyrics work with the overall aesthetic and perfectly appropriate to the genre.
However, that said, the transitions are all a bit abrupt. This creates an impression that song was perhaps originally intended to go in a different order and, indeed, it might be a good idea to play around with different orderings. Transitions could be smoothed by adding some simple synth lines that either foreshadow the coming lines or to have timbral effects which start before the transition, but finish afterwards. The transitions are all very tight, with no space between the sections, which is part of what makes them tricky, but overlap will help. It might also be a good idea to try brining forward some less autotuned lines from Ms Trump in a bridge section, to create some variation. This could replace the ‘rapping’ section - that section does increase variety within the song, but is overly formulaic and thus doesn’t add as much as it should.
Overall, the piece is of radio quality. It does not push or stray from the conventions of the genre. This, in combination, with a subdued hook, prevents the piece from standing out in an exceptional way. It demonstrates a clear understanding of the conventions of genre and of use of technical effects.
It might be slightly studenty, but that’s no reason to give up.
The rap struck me as ill-fitting. I wonder if they were going intentionally for that early-90s “suddenly a rap” thing but the track ended up with a more contemporary synth vibe that made it incongruent.
I thought it was there to convey black authenticity, as in the similar section in Rebecca Black’s song. It’s problematic. It’s also the most amateur-glamour-studio part of the song, using racially coded baggage to boost the ego of the main performer. While that’s grim and is sort of the musical equivalent of her dad posing with a Trump grill taco-bowl, at least it’s not the entirety of her campaign song. Remixing could fix it, but alas, nothing can fix her dad.
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