Lads, I've been listening to a fair bit of Father John Misty and it's got me thinking. Is it possible to use algorithms to create music?
It's probably reflective of the slightly bland middle of the road music I seem to have settled into but literally every single song of his sounds like I've heard it before; even on the first listen to a track it's got that warm familiarity and pangs of nostalgia. Now I'm not saying the man has been created using artificial intelligence and manufactured music or imitating other artists is nothing new, but if someone turned around and said that all of his output had been cultivated in a lab with the aim of creating music with widespread appeal then I wouldn't blink an eye. I know the likes of Spotify use algorithms to recommend music they think people will like, but I'm not aware of algorithms being used to create music they think people will like.
>boys about the age of 10 with faded hair, skinny jeans and tops from somewhere like Hollister or Abercrombie & Fitch. When I was that age I thought I looked the shit in my grey Adidas top with grey Adidas trackies with red trim on the stripes and a zip so I could turn them into flares.
Those are the exact same things though, aren't they? Kids wearing what's fashionable.
It's easy for us old cunts to believe that we were the last generation to do it right, but fifteen years ago I was wearing clothes as dictated by my peers, media, and the bands I listened to. I was very much part of a music scene and there were plenty of them about, and more than enough teenage subcultures. I can't imagine any of that has disappeared in such a short amount of time.
The idea that teenagers don't for groups, cliques, or subcultures now is laughable, honestly. They may not be ones you recognise (though they still exist, I see goths all the time) but they're there.
They've just played DJ Yoda's new track on 6Music, Roxbury. I guess that sort of music sounds very similar, but if you'd told me someone had created that track by mixing The Avalanches and Lack Of Afro together then I'd have bought it.
>>11662 Modern teen Goths exist, but they're not the massive New Rock platform boot, ridiculously baggy jeans, Cradle of Filth T-shirt wearing type from when I was a teenlad.
My lad's girlfriend is basically a goth. She wears ripped black skinny jeans, Vans Old Skool shoes and an oversized hoody or jumper. Along with the more traditional black nail polish, dark lips and too much eye shadow.
>>11665 He's wrong about the baggies, that was crossing over into metahead territory. Your classic mid-00s goth couple was a stick-thin 6'3 whey-faced chain-smoking teenlad in tight black trousers and his short, big-tiddy (read: fat, but wearing a corset) girl in New Rocks.
>>11666 Should every father aspire to fuck his son's girlfriend? I'm not saying in a million years act on it, but it must be pretty disheartening if your son ends up with someone you don't find attractive; like they've failed.
I reckon so. One generation up, but my grandad seems indignant that my cousins financee is a battleax and has a face like she chewed a wasp, and he's very rarely annoyed about anything.
>>11668 She definitely reminds me of his mum at her ages, except with less self harm scars and more tattoos. I don't think she realises that i am following her instagram and see the stories of her posing in her underwear.
>>11667 I'm talking more mid 90s NIN and Marylin Manson fan type goths. Rather than 80s Bauhaus and Siouxsie Soux types goths. By the mid 2000s they were more Emo kids listening to Fallout Boy and MCR.
I was more of a skater kid, who listened to all kinds of different shit, so my music taste is eclectic and putting some of my playlists on random will give you sonic whiplash. They'll have Devo, then Death, followed up by something off Def Jam records and end with Duran Duran.
>>11673 I've got an 8 month old daughter and the wife won't let me go near here as often as she did. It's like I'm going through a second puberty, a stiff breeze and I get a stiffy. I am also growing hair in places where I never had hair before, unfortunately it's my shoulders, ears and nostrils.
>>11682 Her Instagram is private, so you'd have to not only find the account you would have to have her accept you. I also chose a photo that doesn't show some of her more distinguishing tattoos.
>>11684 As long as his face ins't in the pictures I don't give a shit. He's 20, I did a lot of dumb shit at that age, I just didn't have camera phones and social media to remind me of it.
>>11686 It's one thing to not care that he's in porn, seems a bit stranger to be walking the edge of actually seeing it yourself while having a cheeky one off the wrist to her other content.
>>11685 You can find the source by using Yandex to reverse search the image. I'll leave it at that; if the poster doesn't want more people finding her then he can just delete it.
I just like having that sort of connection with all of you. Once I knock one out to the girlfriend later, that lad, me, and his son, will have an unbreakable wank bond. It's beautiful, really.
>>11689 Thanks for the heads up and deleting her username. I don't care about strangers seeing it, more people within his social circle at uni. As I said he's an adult should be free to do what he wants, but I don't want anything to happen to him socially.
Also that's the carpet in his bedroom here and he's not been here since New Years. He should also take his socks off for fuck's sake.
I shouldn't have posted her handle at all really. I think your attitude toward the whole situation is fairly commendable, even if mumsnet types might throw a hissy about it.
>>11694 You're paying for the intimacy of being one of her few subs, with whom she'll probably interact and take suggestions from, not for the breadth of porn available from through the pornhub separation of user and content provider.
>>11695 I was 19 when my boy was born, meaning that on his 19th birthday, he was half my age and same age I was when he was born. I am not your usual clueless parent when it comes to the internet. I was downloading shit off BBSes in the mid 90s using a 28.8kbs modem. I have grown up with the internet and message/imageboards. I do my best to not post anything incriminating.
I'm just glad that my old Myspace account got deleted years ago. Looking back on that, some of it was really fucking cringeworthy. I've had to grown out of being the shitlord I was when I was in my 20s. Once social media became so prevalent and potential employers start scraping through your Facebook and Twitter, I had to lock that shit down.
>>11694 Fucking hell she is either doing some disgusting clips4sale shit or she is stringing along some right white knight sad acts. I'd rather pay for Pornhub premium. Either way fair play to her if it's getting her an extra night out on the piss or something.
>>11698 >I'm just glad that my old Myspace account got deleted years ago
Myspace recently revealed they "accidentally" deleted all their content from 2003-2016 so a lot of cringeworthy stuff has probably vanished.
I could never remember if I deleted my old account so I'm feeling happy about that.
>>11699 I didn't realise they were still going. I used FaceParty before MySpace, which had an absolutely ridiculous amount of child groomers on the site.
I do regret not having access to my messages, though. I pulled so many birds via Myspace, literally got them to come visit me in my city and stuff, I had NO IDEA how well I was doing for myself back then.
It was a perfect platform for that, really. No profile was private, or hidden away, and you could fully customise your profile page - it would play a song, you could neatly arrange your coolest friends in a list, it would even let you do actual HTML to customise the look of everything.
And you could broadcast your posts to everyone, you could leave posts sat on your page like blogs, you could respond to just about anyone. If you were in a band, and of course you were, because you were on myspace you'd get streams of girls adding you, responding to your daft teenlad poetry, reading your dodgy song lyrics. And the only way to respond to some of this was by DM, really - so you were already half way there.
You'll never see something quite like that again. I think the extreme ability to personalise your profile was the biggest thing, everyone's social media looks the same by design now, but back then putting a herringbone background on my page and an obscure acoustic version of an Alexisonfire song on autoplay, that was enough to stand out from the crowd.
>>11701 I felt bad for decades for trying to get a msn girlfriend to talk dirty to me but reading your post for some reason it just clicked that actually, given that she called me fifty times in one night actually we were both being stupid kids.
Exactly. I didn't figure out for a long time that girls are just as interested in you as you are in them, especially at that age. Seems ridiculous now, but if you're not one of those mega high confidence teens you see on American TV, then you're going to naturally assume that you fancy them and that's it.
There's more than a few moments back then I look back on now as an 'experienced' man and think "oh for fucks sake, she wanted a shag, didn't she?". I remember one girl invited herself over to my house, and we ended up daring each other to touch each other, like "I bet you won't rub here!" "I bet you won't take your bra off, chicken!" like it was an endurance competition or something. Despite a few hours of that I never even tried to lean in for a kiss, nor did she. I distinctly remember not even considering it, thinking that she really was just playing a weird competitive dare game.
That was at least fifteen years ago and I still think about how fucking daft that was. Particularly since neither of us were even virgins at the time. What the hell was stopping us?
>>11703 Being in my early twenties, being able to drive and being a vocalist in a band meant I got a few ladies massaging me on Myspace. There was honestly a different one every weekend for the space of a couple of months. I was being a total tosspot, because I would block them on MSN afterwards and start chatting up some other girl.
One of the things that stopped all of that was the one time I met up with a girl who said she was 19, but looked more like 14. She really didn't look like the girl in her pictures either. I was thankful that I listened to my head and asked for ID. She sort of broke down and admitted that the pictures were her older sister and she had just turned 15.
>>11701 I am surprised that no one has ever tried to replicate Myspace. I know Tumblr was kind of similar, but the site was shit for bands trying to promote their music. What is there nowadays apart from Soundcloud or Bandcamp?
Most bands I know have moved to Facebook, which isn't a great music platform either, but it's there, and at least it has a strong system for setting events etc.
>>11696 The tattoo on her leg is a portrait of a person in an oval frame. The thing is she didn't get it finished, before starting on another tattoo on her arm. So she has 3 unfinished tattoos on her body.
>>11703 >I didn't figure out for a long time that girls are just as interested in you as you are in them
I thought about this when we were talking about internet virgins a few days ago. I fondly remember the time I "went out" (to a bowling alley ffs) with a girl around 17 and we had a long long chat, and she talked about boys and stuff - and me. It never went anywhere (because I didn't know how to close the deal, nor did she) but it was very formative in that I realised what you're talking about it. A proper OH GOODNESS ME moment.
It's slightly distressing how many of these moments there were for me. I still did alright, but I'm pretty sure I would still be a virgin now if I didn't happen to meet a few girls who were willing to make the first move. That's really what got me started. It wasn't even like I was nervous or scared of these girls, just oblivious, and under the assumption that it was a one way feeling.
What a weird thing, though. Oblivious to their hints, yet still constantly horny and wanking for England.
And now that I think about it, accidentally playing hard to get would have made them want me even more. Fucks sake.
