"if an album has votes across two years, it can combine them if it gets more points the second year, but *not* if there are more points the first year."
--I don't think this is exactly right. and you should check with Chuck; and it might have been done differently in different years. But I don't think year 2 had to *beat* year 1, it just had to do a *significant* *number* of year 1's total, say 50%. [I don't have any examples, though. I thought "Paper Planes" might've been it, but it got 50 votes in year 1 and 56 votes in year 2. But if those numbers had been reversed it would've nonetheless been insane to exclude it in year 2.]
Hah! Did you see that Stereogum listed the Slayyyter as the best album of the half year? Tom Breihan wrote, "Is there such a thing as extreme pop music? If there is, this is it." So I linked him my LJ post from 2006 about Extreme Pop.
In barely related news, I emailed Tom a couple months ago to link him my APT Thai epic and to let him know that his work had made a significant impact on my APT Thai re-work. Turns out he'd had no idea that there was a "Culik Aku Dong" in 2020 as an Indonesian variant of "Savage Love/Laxed (Siren Beat)" and that in 2024-25 it was still stomping the floorboards as its own viral phenomenon in Southeast Asia.
Haha I also thought about Extreme Pop when they wrote that! I think Slayyyter is what happens when you imagine Extreme Pop as as a genre but aren’t extreme (which iirc came up in that thread? Will look at it again)
“ I dunno if anything can simultaneously be "indie" and "extreme" in this sense (as in "EXTREME POP") because indie as a social construct (not genre) signals a kind of acceptable, or maybe accepted, level of extremity. When an artist is kicked out of/not included in the indie category, like post-Matrix Liz Phair or Courtney Love, it's possible to become EXTREME POP”.
"if an album has votes across two years, it can combine them if it gets more points the second year, but *not* if there are more points the first year."
--I don't think this is exactly right. and you should check with Chuck; and it might have been done differently in different years. But I don't think year 2 had to *beat* year 1, it just had to do a *significant* *number* of year 1's total, say 50%. [I don't have any examples, though. I thought "Paper Planes" might've been it, but it got 50 votes in year 1 and 56 votes in year 2. But if those numbers had been reversed it would've nonetheless been insane to exclude it in year 2.]
Ah I couldn’t remember, thought I might have gotten that wrong. I think it’s in the Xgau archives though
What are the GAPDY/CAPDYs you love(d) and hate(d)?
Loved YYY’s, hated Animal Collective; not sure there’s a “love” in the CAPDY but like the Kim Petras and dislike the Slayyyter
Hah! Did you see that Stereogum listed the Slayyyter as the best album of the half year? Tom Breihan wrote, "Is there such a thing as extreme pop music? If there is, this is it." So I linked him my LJ post from 2006 about Extreme Pop.
https://bsky.app/profile/koganbot.bsky.social/post/3mndjesfj322o
In barely related news, I emailed Tom a couple months ago to link him my APT Thai epic and to let him know that his work had made a significant impact on my APT Thai re-work. Turns out he'd had no idea that there was a "Culik Aku Dong" in 2020 as an Indonesian variant of "Savage Love/Laxed (Siren Beat)" and that in 2024-25 it was still stomping the floorboards as its own viral phenomenon in Southeast Asia.
Haha I also thought about Extreme Pop when they wrote that! I think Slayyyter is what happens when you imagine Extreme Pop as as a genre but aren’t extreme (which iirc came up in that thread? Will look at it again)
“ I dunno if anything can simultaneously be "indie" and "extreme" in this sense (as in "EXTREME POP") because indie as a social construct (not genre) signals a kind of acceptable, or maybe accepted, level of extremity. When an artist is kicked out of/not included in the indie category, like post-Matrix Liz Phair or Courtney Love, it's possible to become EXTREME POP”.
I suppose I’m consistent on this…
I guess the question is whether Slayyyter is oxymoronic or “extreme semipop”
Slayyyter sings “I’m doing drugs tonight” like she’s going to take an edible to help her sleep