Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 43
You know what it is. Playlist below and tracklist after the jump. As always, new songs have been added to the top of the playlist. Scroll further down to find old playlists. Vol 42 is here and Find all playlists here. It's been a while since I've done a playlist so this one is supersized - 33 tracks.
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 42
You know what it is. Playlist below and tracklist after the jump. As always, new songs have been added to the top of the playlist. Scroll further down to find old playlists. Vol 41 is here and Find all playlists here.
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 41
You know what it is. Playlist below and tracklist after the jump. As always, new songs have been added to the top of the playlist. Scroll further down to find old playlists. Vol 40 is here and Find all playlists here.
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 40
You know what it is. Playlist below and tracklist after the jump. As always, new songs have been added to the top of the playlist. Scroll further down to find old playlists. Vol 39 is here and Find all playlists here.
The Top One Percenters Playlist Vol 39
The Top One Percenters Playlist Vol 38
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 37
You know what it is. Playlist below and tracklist after the jump. As always, new songs have been added to the top of the playlist. Scroll further down to find old playlists. Vol 36 is here and Find all playlists here.
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 36
You know what it is. Playlist below and tracklist after the jump. As always, new songs have been added to the top of the playlist. Scroll further down to find old playlists. Find all playlists here.
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 35
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Migos - Need It ft. YoungBoy Never Broke Again [Music Video]
I somehow missed this track when it dropped back in May, but I'm so happy I rediscovered it and am in love with their Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, one of my favorite movies growing up.
The Top One Percenters Playlist Vol 34
I took a break from creating and posting music playlists on IG for #BLM. Can't take away from what's important. But mental health is also important, and sometimes you need a distraction and time/space to get out of your own head. Escape life, so to say. So here we have a super-sized Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 34. As always, an eclectic mix of indie pop, dance, rap and r&b.
You may be tired of hearing "Savage" but Major Lazer did a dope fucking club remix that makes the record sound brand new. There's new records from The Neptunes and Deadmou5 ("Pomegranate"), Jamie XX-style tracks like The 1975's Shiny Collarbone (I swore it was Jamie XX when I first heard it), newer artists like Rina Sawayama ("Love Me 4 Me"), Sofia Hoss ("Where Did You Go"), Molly Moore ("Handsomer"), and the usual collective of banging fucking music.
Remember Baauer and "Harlem Shake"? He recently released a new album, and the standout track "REACHUPDONTSTOP" is included here. I bought some club speakers and I can't wait to bang that shit loud as fuck on em.
There's something for everyone, I promise. Playlist below, tracklist after the jump, and link here for Vol 33.
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 33
Kanye West's 2010-2011 is the Greatest 2 Year Stretch in Music History
I was listening to Rick Ross' "Live Fast, Die Young" a few weeks ago and "I Don't Like" came on next. Then "Christian Dior Denim Flow." Then "Devil in a New Dress" and "Niggas in Paris." And I thought, damn, Kanye had a really crazy 2010 and 2011.
After discussing with a few friends and strengthening my argument, I landed here:
Kanye West's 2010 and 2011 is the greatest 2 year stretch by a music artist in history
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 32
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 31
In work terms, Vol 31 is a "fast-follow" to Vol 30, released just a few weeks ago. Since it's been so long since Vol 29, there was a lot of really great music by a lot of up and coming artists that I've been listening to, so I split the playlists in two - Vol 30 was rap, trap and more aggressive electronic, while Vol 31 is pop, indie, alt, and electronica. Spotify playlist below and tracklist after the jump.
The Top One Percenters Playlist: Volume 30
CORONAVIIIIIRUS (Cardi B voice). Life is wild, aint it? You think you're doing well, that the fam is doing well, that you've got health, a good job, some money in the bank; You think your investments are sound and (relatively) safe; That you're set up (relatively) well for the future. But life comes at you fast (Kevin Federline would know), just this time, it's coming at everyone at the same time at (largely) the same rate.
It felt like it was time to make another playlist - it's new music Friday after all (wait, it's only Monday? The days run together when you're inside everyday). It's been much longer than it should've been, and there's so much music to share that I'm breaking them up into two playlists - Volume 30, which is rap, trap and harder electronic, and Volume 31, which will be pop, indie pop, dance, etc. Volume 31 will come later this week, so be on the lookout. As always, check out Volume 29 and all previous playlists here. Spotify playlist below and tracklist after the jump.
Travis Bott - Jack Park Canny Dope Man [Travis Scott if an AI Wrote It]
A technology-focused creative advertising agency called Space150 created an AI version of Travis Scott called Travis Bott. They created a music-learning algorithm and fed it a bunch of Travis Scott lyrics, beats, and songs, and then had the AI system write what it thought a Travis Scott song would sound like.
Adweek spoke with Ned Lampert, the Space150 Creative Director in charge of the project:
We were sort of fascinated with like, ‘What if we tried to make a song—like an actual good song—by using AI and basically creative directing AI?...And so we chose Travis Scott just because he is just such a unique artist and he has a unique sound and everything sort of has an aesthetic to it, both audibly and visually.I have to tell you, the lyrics are absolute trash and don't make any sense. And yet, this song is kind of fire. It feels like a Travis Scott song. Maybe more like a demo - a track that would be considered for the album but ultimately fall short because they couldn't crack the lyrics.
But what does this say about AI and the future of music? I think this track proves that AI can make music that fits within the modern culture with modern styles, themes and sounds. We already have CGI influencers (which is fucking creepy). If we didn't know this song was created by an AI, how would we accept it? How will we accept music when we learn AFTER we fall in love with a song that the person behind it isn't human at all?
In Honor of Alex Morris
*please listen to the song while you read the below story*
This is a song I’ve had in my iTunes for years. Probably 10-12 years. Never a song i listened to much. And then one day, about 10 years ago, I learned a friend had passed away. I was maybe 22-23, so she had to be 21, maybe. So I drive from Columbus to North Ohio and this song comes on during the drive. And I couldn’t turn it off. I listened to the song on repeat for most of the 3 hour drive to her funeral.
Her name was Alex Morris. We were more acquaintances than friends in college, but we’re always cool. But when she passed, I felt this intense urge to be where she was. So I drove. It’s weird. I’ve always hated funerals. I was 6 when my grandma passed and I refused, adamantly, going to her funeral. And I didn’t go. But for Alex, this was the first funeral I voluntarily went to. And there was something about this song, “The Good Fight,” by Teenager, that was emotionally gripping to me. The first half of the song is about regret, which wasn’t appropriate for me, at the time, but the second half of the song repeats, over and over, “just fighting, just fight the good fight”. And that’s what Alex did. All the time. She had cancer when she was a child, and took a lot of her mobility. But she was always positive. Always fucking positive. And she was good for a while, but it came back in her early twenties, took her leg, became metastatic, and spread to her lungs. It was a fairly rapid thing.
I remember listening to this song on the drive and crying the whole way. I think it was because I was contrasting my fast and reckless life, with no serious physical consequences, to the experiences she went through, and I think that’s when i first really realized that all this shit can’t end instantaneously. Regardless of what you personally do. Everything felt real and unavoidable during those three hours.
When I get there, the wake was before the funeral. And I remember sitting in the parking lot, unable to get out of the car. I think it was about 30 minutes before I went inside. So I go in, and I wait in line to pay my respects to Alex. I finally get there, and I look at her laying in the casket, no more than 22 years old, and I break down, sobbing. I think to this day, this is the most I’ve cried, the most emotionally vulnerable and uncontrolled I’ve ever been. I walk over to her mother and all I can do is cry and apologize as if I was somehow responsible, or if somehow my future happiness depends on her mother’s forgiveness. Grief and sadness is weird like that.
We all get in our cars with the flags on our hoods and do the funeral drive all the way to the cemetery. Instead of burying Alex, I think they put her casket in one of the buildings with the plaque that you can walk inside to, though I could be wrong. I don’t really remember. But every time I hear this song, I remember how I felt during that drive. I don’t cry anymore when the song comes on, and that makes me sad because I wonder if I’ve hardened, if I’ve become more emotionally unavailable, or if I’ve forgotten Alex. But today, I write this on a flight to my celebrate my birthday, and when this song came on on shuffle, I had to play it on repeat and write out how I felt.
Alex’s birthday is about a week after mine, so I always think about her around this time. Happy Birthday, Alex. I love you and I miss you.
The Top One Percenters Playlist Volume 29
The 29th iteration of the greatest playlist on earth
Every time I try to make one of these playlists, life gets in the way and then BOOM!, 3 months between playlists. Smh. I promise to be better and do these bi-monthly, if not more frequently.
Volume 29 has 28 tracks. Some highlights:
-- Camila Cabello + DaBaby // My Oh My // This feels like the next single and you're probably going to hear it everywhere for the first 6 months of 2020
-- Harry Styles // Adore You // This record is so amazing. Could be record of the year
-- Tyga //Ayy Macarena // Tyga does nothing but drop hits ever since he split with Kylie
-- Miley Cyrus + Wuki // Mother's Daughter Remix // Been a staple of my workout playlists for months
-- TNGHT // Dollaz // This record gets me lit like "Sicko Mode" did
-- Burna Boy // My Money, My Baby // 2020 is the year Burna Boy blows up in America
-- Doja Cat // Bottom Bitch // This track samples Blink 182's "What's My Age Again" and I fucking love it. Her debut album, Hot Pink, is amazing. Highly recommend it
-- Tove Lo // Mateo // A stand out track from an incredible album. Check out Sunshine Kitty
-- Ariana Grande // Breathin' (live) // My favorite track of 2018 gets the live treatment
As always, volume 29 are the top 28 tracks. Previous entries are included further down in the playlist. Check out Vol 28 here.
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