pleas advice wrote: » its like a parallel to Latitude
kneemos wrote: » https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVmuzTRX0AEnxcA.jpg:small
Roger Hassenforder wrote: » "Big"? *Arches eyebrow quizically
wakka12 wrote: » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEGccV-NOm8 Over 450 million views since end of june, its pretty popular by any standard! Personally I can't stand it though
Nokotan wrote: » Oh wow, that's awful. I know I'm not contributing much but wow, that's bad.
wakka12 wrote: » Try having your younger siblings playing it CONSTANTLY aloud at home I dont understand how it ever became so popular. Actually wrecks my ears
The Floyd p wrote: » Being ignorant isn't a badge of honour.
Bob Harris wrote: » I haven't heard of any of the acts at Longtitude. Just listened to the above 'song'. Never heard of it before. Not my thing and music for a different generation. From my limited contact with teens that type of thing seems to be all the rage though.
wakka12 wrote: » Roger Hassenforder wrote: » "Big"? *Arches eyebrow quizically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEGccV-NOm8 Over 450 million views since end of june, its pretty popular by any standard! Personally I can't stand it though
RobertKK wrote: » I'm 41 and I know some of the acts... Solange is Beyonce's sister. Travis Scott did that song with Camila Cabello. Saw Mabel on the music channels, same with Cardi B.
Nokotan wrote: » Then again I've never liked rap music so can't appreciate any aspects of the song posted.
Cina wrote: » it's hardly a surprise, I was at Longitude once and it was mostly 16-18 year olds. They have their market, it's an over 16's "festival" for kids too young to go to EP and knackers too... eh... uncultured to venture outside of Ireland.
Atoms for Peace wrote: » Solange sounds like a brand name of orange juice sold in a discount supermarket.
Arghus wrote: » It's After Hours: It's largely populated by a bunch of no-craic carmudgeons who hate people in any way different to themselves, especially the young.
Sir Gallagher wrote: » Shock horror, music has evolved since Feile '94 or Oxygen '08 ffs. Commercial rock/indie music is in the doldrums at the moment, i guess it up to artists in those genres to figure that one out. Hip-Hop, R'n'B and Grime are huge with the youth and this is who the festival is geared towards. Fair enough there isnt a lot of variety in genres this year, but in terms of "Urban" music its a very eclectic line up. A lot of the artists on the line up gained a huge following without labels, putting their music out online and connecting with their audiences. Not much pre-packaged pop nonsense on it at all. Hip-Hop went through a poxy period after the era of 50 Cent, it's good to see it on the up and up at the moment with a diverse bunch of artists knocking about. Apart from HipHop its great to see some great instrumental Soul and R'nB back again. Anderson Paak for me would be the highlight of the weekend after that maybe Sampha who won the Mercury Music prize last year.
Deleted User wrote: » I dunno. I used to listen to a fair bit of Jungle/DnB and what would now be Grime. And a bit of Garage too. :pac: TBH all the stuff that's successfull now is pretty ****ty to me. Luckily I can still discover stuff from about 98-08 really easily that I haven't heard before and before it all had to go into the blender to be homogenised. Also it amazes me how long it took for the currently popular stuff to leave its "genre" behind and get big. It was on the go for maybe 15 years before splitting and kinda falling away before the recent resurgence which seemed to take all the banal elements, polished, made generic and released.
ChunkyLover54 wrote: » It looks promising...but its no Feile '93.
Lord Nikon wrote: » Have any of the line-up had any chart songs/hits even. Clearly is focused on a niche market, which my brother spouted on about them have maybe one decent track each. But surely, a festival would have some mainliners that would be at least recognizable, that would interest all age groups of Hip-Hop. Like I don't like Rap/HipHop, Rock/Metal music, but I would recognize artists and bands that were decent enough over the last 20 years, to be at least headlining or supporting at a festival. As a previous poster said, Oxygen was brilliant 10 years ago, and last few years before it ended the festival went all EDM, and that why it ended, as it didn't provide for everyone.
Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: » Seeing Oxegen 09 (Which I was at) being looked back on with such nostalgia has really made me feel old.
Ferris_Bueller wrote: » I have heard of most of the acts playing it but have absolutely no interest in any of them. It will be very popular with younger people or fans of that kind of music though and will probably still sell out. I suppose it's unfair to say the lineup is rubbish as if you do like that genre of music it's probably a great lineup, but what bothers me about it is that most people who have gone to Longitude over the past few years have kind of been forgotten about. There is no variety in the lineup at all, in previous years you would get a nice mix of all types of music over the three days but they have completely ditched that approach now and seem to be solely catering for one group of people. I can definitely see why a lot of people are unhappy with it as if you've gone every year since it began you would probably have been expecting something that would interest you.
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