Tagged: backstories

Does image affect what music you do or don't enjoy? If a musician or music group appears smart, sexy, cool, tough, dark, or eccentric, are you more liking to check their music out? Are you more likely to enjoy it? If allowing image to affect your opinion positively is bad, does the same go for it affecting your opinion negatively? Would the following artists be as popular as they are this year if projecting an image weren't a central part of promoting their music? Odd Future Lana Del Rey Lil B A$AP Rocky [...]

"If the Quest don't look good, then Queens won't look good But since the sounds are universal, New York won't look good" -Phife Dog, A Tribe Called Quest, "God Lives Through," Midnight Marauders , 1993. Welcome. In this, the first Boom Bap Backstory, all the readers out there deserve an explanation. Some of you out there might be asking, "what is boom bap, and what's its backstory?" Boom bap is one of the sounds of hip-hop: steady, pounding, swinging drums. [...]

Right now, the image coming out of places like the Guardian and Wired is that the four Pirate Bay defendants are young, anti-establishment innovators out to stick it to The Man. Except... one of them is a neo-Nazi. The Register 's Andrew Orloski, drawing on information provided by author Andrew Brown, points out that one of the four defendants— Carl Lundström , who allegedly has a 40% stake in the site—kinda doesn't like immigrants too much. Lundström was linked to [...]