Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Here’s some highlights from its take on Leonard Cohen’s Light as the Breeze:
“a woman standing before the narrator, metaphorically naked.”
“The line “you can see it, you can taste it” implies that her presence is palpable and all-consuming.”
“The second verse portrays the narrator kneeling at significant places, such as the delta, alpha, and omega. This symbolizes a search for meaning, salvation, and completeness. …being with this woman brings a sense of spiritual relief and connection.”
I am somehow unsurprised that the training data is really bad at transparent adoration of cunnilingus.
I mean to be fair Lenny’s sex lyrics are also always religion lyrics. That’s why “So I knelt there at the delta, / at the alpha and the omega, / at the cradle of the river and the seas” is one of the best lyrics ever.
Wondering what it’ll make of Alabama Song, End Of The Night, etc
I’ve never really gotten into Cohen, curiously - voice just doesn’t work for me. Which is a shame because there’s been some great bits of lyricism there
Cohen’s earliest singing and melodies don’t do it for me even when the lyrics are gorgeous, but the older he gets the more I love them. By the time you get to the stuff he recorded in his 80s my reaction to his singing is NSFW.
@froztbyte Have you tried Jennifer Warnes’ cover album of Cohen songs, “Famous Blue Raincoat”? (Asking because her voice is *very* different from his, but she totally owns his songs.)
I really like her version of the “first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin”-song.
I haven’t! Will check it out, ty