Lorde Stoned / Antonoff Stooge

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The Kiwi-born LA-acclimatized popstar LORDE has released a second single for her highly anticipated/somewhat dreaded upcoming album Solar Power. It comes replete with a visualiser because the industry just loves giving.

In a long overdue though (#spin) shocking turn of events, the song has had untoward consequences for both Lorde's reputation as a relatively independent pop auteur whose artistic judgement was credible, and for producer/co-writer Jack Antonoff's reputation as someone whose situation at the forefront of That Mainstream Sophisticate Pop Sound That Keeps The Depressive First World Dancing And Thinking About Crying (You Know The One) is even more obsolete than people once feared.

"Stoned At The Nail Salon" is an essentially a carbon copy of the track "Wild At Heart", as heard on Lana del Rey's trainwreck of an album Chemtrails Over The Country Club earlier this year - and by carbon copy, we're not talking similar moods or motifs or inflections or any other innocuous similarities of the kind that you've heard countless times already on separate works by separate artists produced by Antonoff (see: St. Vincent's "Slow Disco" vs. Lana Del Rey's "Norman Fucking Rockwell"). No sir, this is self-plagiarism of the highest order and no amount of intellectual property rights should keep our good man from suing his own pants off in a flurry and hurry. Make haste! Spear of the church, by the sacred decree, protect our princess.

"Stoned At the Nail Salon" is more innocuously boring than "Wild At Heart", but anyone who made it through that song's catatonic vocal performance and nib-rending lyricism (The cameras have flashes / they cause the car crashes) will have instant flashbacks of the still-fresh depths it plumbed, rendering Lorde's cadence and inflection commonalities tragically unlistenable. Alongside Lorde and Lana, Jack Antonoff produces and backseat auteurs for Taylor Swift, St. Vincent and Clairo, none of whom have made a decent album in recent memory, and he did one song with Carly Rae Jepsen that turned out okay somehow.

You can watch and enjoy the online fallout on Twitter links including this one:
mobile.twitter.com/FranziaMom/status/1417886494820159491

You can listen to and experience "Stoned At The Nail Salon" here:

Tagged: Lorde

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JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
July 22nd 2021
62608 Comments


i didn't write this article and there is no blood in my veins

there is only red wine

fuck this song

parksungjoon
July 22nd 2021
47231 Comments


Lord(e) Sto)))ned

GhandhiLion
July 22nd 2021
17678 Comments


Exciting. There's also two new William Parker albums coming out tomorrow.

Romulus
July 22nd 2021
9113 Comments


johnny i appreciate that whenever you write words they feel as if The Internet has become sentient and grown vocal cords and spoken to us all. this is the strongest of compliments i can give

genuinely lolled at "he did one song with Carly Rae Jepsen that turned out okay somehow"

luci
July 22nd 2021
12844 Comments


there's a staff blog section ya know

el_newg
July 22nd 2021
2237 Comments


so you're just writin reviews in news articles now huh

JeetJeet
July 22nd 2021
12465 Comments


what a snoozer

MercySeat
July 22nd 2021
421 Comments


This is the best news article I've ever read here

Feather
July 22nd 2021
10642 Comments


"so you're just writin reviews in news articles now huh"

Keep this trend GOING

Sowing
Moderator
July 22nd 2021
44625 Comments


I like that some personality is finally being injected into this site's news section. Even if that personality is sarcastic and condescending. #jotw for title of news staff

Feather
July 22nd 2021
10642 Comments


"Even if that personality is sarcastic and condescending"

This is the personality that this site deserves!

nash1311
July 22nd 2021
8777 Comments


@Sowing - yeah but whenever non staff does it it gets edited before posting. Otherwise there could be lots of fun here lol

Lord(e)Po)))ts
July 22nd 2021
70256 Comments


I can't imagine this could be worse than the first track but also I can definitely imagine it being worse than the first track

nash1311
July 22nd 2021
8777 Comments


It is

SteakByrnes
July 22nd 2021
30464 Comments


"yeah but whenever non staff does it it gets edited before posting."

I've had some fun in articles in the past that go by unedited :]

heck
July 22nd 2021
7213 Comments


christ these articles suck

nash1311
July 22nd 2021
8777 Comments


“I've had some fun in articles in the past that go by unedited :]”

NEPOTISM. NEPOTISM I TELL YOU

Sowing
Moderator
July 22nd 2021
44625 Comments


I won't decline articles just because they're written differently or with a sarcastic wit
But they do have to be well-written

sharkmsc
July 22nd 2021
457 Comments


"johnny i appreciate that whenever you write words they feel as if The Internet has become sentient and grown vocal cords and spoken to us all. this is the strongest of compliments i can give" {2}

rc239
July 22nd 2021
417 Comments


zzzzzzz

SteakByrnes
July 22nd 2021
30464 Comments


"NEPOTISM. NEPOTISM I TELL YOU"

look at what I classify Volumes as in this article lol

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/news/37579/Volumes-promote-new-single-album/

Trundle
July 22nd 2021
3966 Comments


johnny about to get sput blown up with redditers again lol

bigguytoo9
July 22nd 2021
1442 Comments


Jerk Antonoff should rot. I mean he dated Lena Dunham right, so that says everything. Screw him and screw this record. Lorde can stay in New Zealand and never leave IMO.

bigguytoo9
July 22nd 2021
1442 Comments


"Jack Antonoff produces and backseat auteurs for Taylor Swift, St. Vincent and Clairo, none of whom have made a decent album in recent memory"

Taylor and St Vincent have NEVER released a worthy album. Not a single one. I saw ST VINCENT open for Arcade Fire on the Neon Bible tour and it was a garbage opening set.

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
July 22nd 2021
18279 Comments


Can’t wait to see Sowing’s review stacked next to Johnny’s

nightbringer
July 22nd 2021
2763 Comments


I chuckled.

Cormano
July 22nd 2021
4263 Comments


"Kiwi-born" lmao I love you Johnny

those mfs are some of the dopest birds that's for sure

Slugboiiii
July 22nd 2021
335 Comments


"Taylor and St Vincent have NEVER released a worthy album. Not a single one."

You never listened to 1989 then?

botb
July 23rd 2021
18534 Comments


I’m enjoying these

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
July 23rd 2021
5709 Comments


article is probably the best thing to come from the song so thx lorde

Pajolero
July 23rd 2021
1459 Comments


More news posts like this please

Tunaboy45
July 23rd 2021
18696 Comments


aha who is making these news articles?? xD fukn crazy hahaha

Shattered_Future
July 24th 2021
1633 Comments


Bless this article and fuck Jack Antonoff to pieces, single-handedly ruined pop music.

Odal
Staff Reviewer
July 24th 2021
2465 Comments


lmao what the hell is this article? Trash takes aside, can we please leave the editorializing out of this?

alamo
July 24th 2021
5793 Comments


perfect article. johnny never misses

vult
July 24th 2021
2682 Comments


yuck

Gyromania
July 25th 2021
37603 Comments


there's a staff blog section ya know [2]

BigBlob
July 26th 2021
5889 Comments


there's a staff blog section ya know [2.1]



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