I read today at the Daily Swarm that the Pope ’signed’ to interscope records to ‘drop’ an album. He is apparently going 2 sing + recite some shit, and they are gonna ‘garageband’ that shit over choirs singing epic bangers. I feel excited about this, because it shows that you don’t have to be ‘cool’ or ‘musical’ to get a record deal. You just have to have passion about a concept. The Popes will had ‘mad passion’ about God, and appeal to people who are ‘hella down’ with being Catholic + miscellaneous Christian themes.
Check out the Interscope logo. Seems like a ‘free spirited’ brand 4 kids transitioning 2 tweens, kinda like Taco Bell/Highlights Magazine or something.
I feel like it might be a ‘brand weakener’ for the Pope, because he will have to associate with artists who he ‘used to be better than.’ Here is a list of Interscope artists who are now his ‘equals.’
- Feist
- Will Smith
- Eminem
- Fergie
- Black Eyed Peas
- Gwen Stefani
- Enrique Iglesias
- Jimmy Eat Worlds
- The Gaga Ladies
- Limp Bizkit
- Nelly Furtada
- Papa Roach
- Pussie Cat Dolls
- u2
- =w=
- Yeah Yes Yeas
It seems risky for the Pope’s brand. What if he doesn’t have the #1 album in the world? Does that mean that religion is no longer ‘relevant’, and the Pope no longer has ‘true fans’? Do yall think that the Pope will have to market his album in traditional ways? Do yall know if he will have to ‘hand out fliers’, ‘put up banner ads on alt websites’, ‘try 2 get profile pieces in the NYTimes + Rolling Stone’, and ‘tweeting’ excessively? Feel kinda afraid that the Catholic Church will ‘try 2 hard’ 2 sell records, and the church will turn into a ‘business’ instead of a place of worshiping the Lord.
I feel like Interscope should have signed Pope John Paul II, who was a pope from the 80s who was ‘really big’ with the Catholics. He was known as ‘the postal service of Popes’, because every1 was really into him.
It will be interesting to see if the Pope ‘makes it.’ It seems like in order to ‘make it’ as a relevant band today, you must have an organic buzz foundation, along with a strong marketing team. Hope that he is ‘conceptual’ or something. Just yearning for ‘more’ out of music than we experienced during the now defunct chillwave era of indie music.
Will yall buy an mp3 by the Pope, or will u wait til he is remixed by __________?
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Those r some pimp shoes ur holiness
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jp2 was way more legit than this dude
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r u ok carl? ur posts r horrible l8ly
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//////////Reply by neuroticsterrunoff
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 pm
seconded
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//////////Reply by shrimp
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 10:36 pm
concurring
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//////////Reply by fart
//////////Posted August 3rd, 2009 at 10:35 pm
turded
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//////////Reply by altBro
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 6:57 am
tr00 dat
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//////////Reply by jim morrison
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 9:37 am
any half wit could have told you a year or two ago that the catchy appeal of recognzing/ joking about the semi-humorous hipster trend would wear out very quickly. Carles had put ‘quotes’ around random words and mispelled different band names on purpose too many times a while ago.
The appeal has faded, just like your shitty american apparel jeans which you’ve been wearing for two years since you’re too busy going to music festivals, reading shitty blogs/ listening to hypem, and trying to record an EP with your friend on ableton, but then getting too stoned and drunk to finish….instead of getting a job and making something of yourself.
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 10:37 am
fggt
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//////////Reply by jim morrison
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 10:46 am
sorry if i hurt your feelings
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am
@jim morrison, sorry if i totes called u out lizard king!
//////////Reply by jim morrison
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 11:57 am
@ ‘ne pas’, i probably pissed you off because i was a little too close to home with my comment. it’s okay, judging by your username (french phrase which makes you feel cool inside) your life is probably more pathetic than the one i described. You probably wish you had that life. Instead you stay home and jerk off to photos of britney spears when she was hot. good luck with everything.
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
@jim doorsison brit spear isn’t still hot?!
and while it may be a ‘french phrase’, in the context in which it exists as my ‘username’, it is a french-canadian phrase. so u fail.
//////////Reply by jim morrison
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
point made, thanks ne pas
//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
@jimmymorrisey i never had a point. just…wut better have i 2 do? on my employer’s computer, on my employer’s time. u were the 1 w the point. i’m the 1 w the time. and patience. may b.
//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
he knows us too well, he was describing his bf i think
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//////////Reply by phil
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
he was pretty right to be fair. what’s worse is that you guys think you’re funny for copying carles’ “style”.
His hat will make an excellent post-pope ironic logo. Papal robes are the next skinny jeans.
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considering dropping “beatles were bigger” meme
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heard that the Pope is not releasing his album as a download, he is releasing it physically. M aybe a vinyl box set?? Ironic CD??
will you go to hell if you violate copyright laws?
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 12:22 am
POPE CRACK BOXXX
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 7:20 am
yes plz
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wait a minute Carels
ChillWave is defunct already??? Just finished downloading The Washed Outs to put on a meaningful summer mix CD for driving
s0 hard to stay alt in 2k9/2k10
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i’m afraid da pope won’t b relevant next yr. the vatican will have to turn him into something he’s not. like space pope bro or maybe italian gangsta hip hop bro. it’s sad but i feel like the pope won’t get true respect for his art….he has 2 much brand already. like the jonas bros and hanna mantana.
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“ninth”.
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Isn’t he like a ‘nazi’
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//////////Reply by Chrises
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 4:05 am
he was in hitler youth… but only because of a heart felt desire to wear khaki shorts + play with knives
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//////////Reply by Layne
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 9:10 am
No.
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funnie stuff <3
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blah blah
yadda yadda yadda
I feel like Interscope should have signed Pope John Paul II, who was a pope from the 80s who was ‘really big’ with the Catholics. He was known as ‘the postal service of Popes’, because every1 was really into him.
KILT IT.
I was losing faith in Carles, and this brought it all back.
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//////////Reply by jim morrison
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 9:41 am
no it didn’t.
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//////////Reply by professor illbert
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
ur speaking on behalf of orange, msr. morrisey, 0rang3 alrdy spoke on his own b1/2. i’d say that [via visiting HO several X a day with not but a care to naysay n put d0wn erone's post] ur not only a primo time example of this:
“The appeal has faded, just like your shitty american apparel jeans which you’ve been wearing for two years since you’re too busy going to music festivals, reading shitty blogs/ listening to hypem, and trying to record an EP with your friend on ableton, but then getting too stoned and drunk to finish….instead of getting a job and making something of yourself.”
but also this:
“wish you had that life. Instead you stay home and jerk off to photos of britney spears when she was hot. good luck with everything.”
and also this [on a hug3ly lg scale]:
fggt
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onetime they chose a dude to be popes and about 15 minutes later he died of a stroke/heartdisease/diabetes.
it was pretty much like god said,
thou shalt not be pope
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“The album will also include eight original compositions…”
(http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=8222869&page=1)
including the big hits…Excommunicate your Assisi and Wrist Poppin Bi-tchas!
RstJ
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p4k will give pope 4.9 cos of the mainstream appeal
i give pope 7.8 coz im circumcized
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I used to listen to him in the late 1k970s when he was just an archbishop. Back then he knew how to appeal to his core fanbase of people dealing with things like the cold war and oil crisis or something like that. Then he got all too mainstream when they elected him for the Holy Office and he lost contact with his true fanbase. Nowadays he has no relevancy at all and no number of tweets can make him actually connect with people who listen to him out of habit.
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//////////Reply by Wildwood
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Well played, Pyry, well played.
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i has the popes first ep, pretty good
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Yall should be aware that pope john paul II put out an album in 19k99 called “Abba Pater.” D/L’d it ironically from oink like 3 years ago. Listened to like one song. Think it was “pretty good.”
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gunna wait for the Holy (Trinity) Fuck! remix
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the anthem on the forthcoming bloody beetroots, ‘anacletus’ is named after a pope… might have something to do with all that
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//////////Reply by OMGURBNOUTFTTRS
//////////Posted August 10th, 2009 at 8:53 am
@matthieu, eyyo that bloody beatnuts album was some SHYT. sounds like SMD took a fat dump on one of themz Korgs and hit “LOOOP THAT JONT!!”
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i’m really surprised to see carles link to the lj community ontd in the alt report. wonder if carles has an lj.
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caint wait till popefest 09 go popester
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lmao carles is back
finally.. more like this less obsessing about your mid-20s aging crisis
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now hear this mixture
where hiphop meets scripture
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concerning your ‘black girl with a weezer tattoo;’ what makes you think she is incapable of appreciating and understanding ‘weezer?’ how do you know whether or not she grew up in a ‘poor black neighborhood’ like youre condescendingly stereotyping her to be… hmm. She couldve grown up in a suburb like you seem to be from where everyone is growing up to be different fro what youre making her out to be.
just thinking outside Your ‘bx’
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