Fred Again.. (the artist)

oh i am aware. but its ok to enjoy a popular banger here and there.

  On 5/3/2023 at 10:45 PM, cichlisuite said:

i skimmed through the yt links you provided, and my first impression is that he must be a very positive guy with a good sense for party vibezz, but music-wise it's like tik-tok music drop-the-bass-autotune cheesy piano emotions kind of guy, or maybe i'm just old and listen to drexciya too much idk

Yeah totally agreed- he is a pop artist with some experimental vibes but is probably going to end full pop like Jamie Lidell 

He's got a kind of James Blake thing going on, and his stuff is undeniably heartfelt, so much so that it veers into the sentimental.

I don't understand the people that hate on someone just because they are mainstream. If you can't enjoy a good accessible banger every now and then I can't image what vibe you give off about your music opinions in real life. Some real "☝" stuff. He isn't like some David guetta type rip off disgusting EDM artist. 

  On 9/17/2023 at 7:43 PM, thumbass said:

I don't understand the people that hate on someone just because they are mainstream. If you can't enjoy a good accessible banger every now and then I can't image what vibe you give off about your music opinions in real life. Some real "☝" stuff. He isn't like some David guetta type rip off disgusting EDM artist. 

not everyone can vibe with club bangers.. I'm honestly jealous of people being able to vibe with radio club banger music.. theres so much of it in my hometown and I stand there paralysed by its paint by numbers musical entropy. I do have my guilty pleasures like overmono but yeah. reptile brain pls take over, I wanna vibe with the normies

  On 9/17/2023 at 7:43 PM, thumbass said:

I don't understand the people that hate on someone just because they are mainstream. If you can't enjoy a good accessible banger every now and then I can't image what vibe you give off about your music opinions in real life. Some real "☝" stuff. He isn't like some David guetta type rip off disgusting EDM artist. 

Im totally happy for you and that can vibe with it and like it! But for me this stuff is way too cringe and far away from banger for me.. 
This is music like when you putting on a normal radio station that is ment to be for ordinary people 

Cheesy autotune vocals, Piano, Euro disco-synth, Hand-hearts! Put your hands in the air! oh baby I love you I want to touch you, I miss you, I kiss you yadayada.. 
 

This just reminds me of all those cheesy late 90's track.. Cool if  If you dig this then you are gonna like this also but maybe it is little bit too hardcore for you: 
 

  On 9/17/2023 at 9:26 PM, chronical said:

not everyone can vibe with club bangers.. I'm honestly jealous of people being able to vibe with radio club banger music.. theres so much of it in my hometown and I stand there paralysed by its paint by numbers musical entropy. I do have my guilty pleasures like overmono but yeah. reptile brain pls take over, I wanna vibe with the normies

  On 9/17/2023 at 9:43 PM, cern said:

Im totally happy for you and that can vibe with it and like it! But for me this stuff is way too cringe and far away from banger for me.. 
This is music like when you putting on a normal radio station that is ment to be for ordinary people 

Cheesy autotune vocals, Piano, Euro disco-synth, Hand-hearts! Put your hands in the air! oh baby I love you I want to touch you, I miss you, I kiss you yadayada.. 
 

This just reminds me of all those cheesy late 90's track.. Cool if  If you dig this then you are gonna like this also but maybe it is little bit too hardcore for you: 
 

 

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AH well I might have come across as a little bit too hostile in my last post. I personally don't really see all of Fred's music as mainstream radio stuff. He produces plenty of UK Garage tinted music and I have never heard UKG on the modern radio at all. He also only has one or two actual mainstream hits. Anyway, to each their own I guess, I would wish a reptile brain as good as mine on ayone lol.

  On 9/17/2023 at 9:43 PM, cern said:

Im totally happy for you and that can vibe with it and like it! But for me this stuff is way too cringe and far away from banger for me.. 
This is music like when you putting on a normal radio station that is ment to be for ordinary people 

Cheesy autotune vocals, Piano, Euro disco-synth, Hand-hearts! Put your hands in the air! oh baby I love you I want to touch you, I miss you, I kiss you yadayada.. 
 

This just reminds me of all those cheesy late 90's track.. Cool if  If you dig this then you are gonna like this also but maybe it is little bit too hardcore for you: 
 

 

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How much you reckon that guy made for just standing there hugging ?

I can admit that I have a music brain and really hate it sometimes because "Mainstream" tracks played on radio and stores having this red thread 
of cheesy simple melodies played often and repeatedly then gets stuck in my brain!

Some people may love it and enjoying it but I just can.. like today I sat on a resturang and they play Eminem and that 8-mile track (Mums spaghetti, he looks calm and ready etc)
And the song just keeps repeating itself in my brain all the time. So annoying even if I hear it 100000 times already. 

Same folder like with this Fred guy 
 

I confess, I havent really paid attention to any of his club stuff, Im really taking about his album, which sits somewhere between Eno/Blake/Ian William Craig.

  On 9/17/2023 at 5:53 PM, species8472 said:

alright - i'm gonna properly check this guy out

same. I got next week off and gonna spend a modicum of time to check this dude out to see what the fuss is all about. I can tell you that the Eno album is real floaty and nice (like the album cover) and his set at Glasto was absolutely spot on and he nailed it. That's all I know. I'm also gonna check out all the most played Spotify tracks on each release of recent obscure Aleksi Perala, which is another thing I'm rather intrigued with. 

  On 9/17/2023 at 11:03 PM, droid said:

I confess, I havent really paid attention to any of his club stuff, Im really taking about his album, which sits somewhere between Eno/Blake/Ian William Craig.

 

 

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this made me strangely emotional, sits kind of inbetween the caretaker, the microphones and the soundtrack of eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.. granted im also kind of a mess this weekend reminiscing times with special people.. the singing could be a little less poppy but hey it made me smoke a really good cigarette with licorice tea out of the window to a storm brewing up outside so thats nice:)

  On 9/17/2023 at 5:53 PM, species8472 said:

alright - i'm gonna properly check this guy out

BUMP!

Dunno why but all of a sudden this bloke Fred and this thread.... pinged into my head, so I'm just playing his 'top 10' on Spotify....

How did you get on species8472? I know you're a man of fairly impeccable taste. I've got half an hour before Australia vs Wales starts in Rugby and Fred is banging on the headphones.

Conclusion? Its really, really terrible. Quite shocking actually. Real pumping candy floss. Obvs the Eno album is the best thing he's done. Baby Again is a bit of a banger, but the rest? Naaaah, no thanks. Though in the name of fair play and sportsmanship, I'm aware that someone like this most played tracks might not nessesarily the best.....

Did you remember? 

burial for gym bros

  On 9/24/2023 at 9:34 PM, Kennylogg Bubblebath said:

burial for gym bros

Not gonna argue with that. Seemed pretty shocking on first impressions. On the basis of the tunes I played I'm surprised Eno even went within a mile of him, but aren't they family or something? But then he did produce Coldplay, so he's not adverse to making music with candy floss merchants.

Actual great collab between Fred and the Overmono boys 

Don't like people with cameras always around,filming them; makes all the sh* staged.

I stay loyal to the WATMM role model. 42 year old hermits who live in parents home basement and never give interviews, because they'd stutter and stumble anyway.

Sean pls

  On 9/17/2023 at 11:03 PM, droid said:

I confess, I havent really paid attention to any of his club stuff, Im really taking about his album, which sits somewhere between Eno/Blake/Ian William Craig.

 

 

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That's pretty alright.

But the rest of the stuff I've listened to might as well have been made by an AI.

  On 7/6/2024 at 1:36 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

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Ok, seeing the stuff he has produced... Ed Sheeran, Charlie XCX, Demi Lovato, Rita Ora...
That's the exact stuff the most vanilla people I've ever met (a handful of mothers on maternity leave) listen to. They were listening to Spotify Top 20 on their TV. Christ.

I'll follow up that comment with a very short story from that very same day that destroyed my soul and all hope for the future.
My wife was on maternity leave, and was part of a mother's group. They would meet up once a week and hang out. My wife didn't really gel with these women as they were all very young and had zero hobbies. Anyway, at one one of them suggested that they should meet up on Saturday and bring their men. So I reluctantly participated and was forced to listen to the Spotify Top 20. I think the music made me impotent.

None of the men said anything. At all. Nada. So at one point I pulled myself together and asked, "so what do you do?". And the words that came out of his mouth... fuck, man. He said, "I'm a consultant at a company".
And that's it. He didn't elaborate or follow up with any specifics. That was it. He's a consultant... at a company.

Fuck, man. Anyway, back to Fred.

  On 7/9/2024 at 2:11 PM, Squee said:

I'll follow up that comment with a very short story from that very same day that destroyed my soul and all hope for the future.
My wife was on maternity leave, and was part of a mother's group. They would meet up once a week and hang out. My wife didn't really gel with these women as they were all very young and had zero hobbies. Anyway, at one one of them suggested that they should meet up on Saturday and bring their men. So I reluctantly participated and was forced to listen to the Spotify Top 20. I think the music made me impotent.

None of the men said anything. At all. Nada. So at one point I pulled myself together and asked, "so what do you do?". And the words that came out of his mouth... fuck, man. He said, "I'm a consultant at a company".
And that's it. He didn't elaborate or follow up with any specifics. That was it. He's a consultant... at a company.

Fuck, man.

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was he atleast hot ?

  On 7/9/2024 at 2:38 PM, Wunderbar said:

was he atleast hot ?

If only.

  On 7/9/2024 at 11:00 AM, WurstPLUS said:

Don't like people with cameras always around,filming them; makes all the sh* staged.

I stay loyal to the WATMM role model. 42 year old hermits who live in parents home basement and never give interviews, because they'd stutter and stumble anyway.

 

Sean pls

Hey, some of us are not all like that, some of us live in our parents house and make them live in the basement.