What song are you listening to right now?

[Kiro]

YouTube - Mostly Bears YOUR SMILE DECORATES THE AFTERNOON Live @ Plush

[Akiyama]

Steve Conte - Call Me Call Me

[Lbelle]

Swing - Taking Back Sunday, and it's AMAZING

[Tidy]

Brand New - Play Crack The Sky

[thetruepandagod]

if anyone can find the review a magazine made about brokencyde relating them to an onion, which would just get worse and worse with every layer u peeled away and said it was the epitome of everything wrong with music in the past 50 years you will be my hero

[Mayareira]

YouTube - The Kissaway Trail - 61

Heard it on Fifa 09. Its pretty cool.

[Obev]

if anyone can find the review a magazine made about brokencyde relating them to an onion, which would just get worse and worse with every layer u peeled away and said it was the epitome of everything wrong with music in the past 50 years you will be my hero

If you've accessed the Internet today you've probably been pointed to this already, but we'd be remiss not to direct Pop & Hiss readers in the direction of something so luminously exalted, aesthetically impenetrable and so deeply reinforcing of the Internet generation gap as Brokencyde's video for "Freaxxx." (We'd post it here, but there are liberally autotuned f-bombs abounding.) The "Albucrazy"-based band has done for MySpace emo what some think Soulja Boy did for hip-hop: turn their career into a kind of macro-performance art that exists so far beyond the tropes of irony and sincerity that to ask "are they kidding?" is like trying to peel an onion to get to a perceived central core that, in the end, does not exist and renders all attempts to reassemble the pieces futile.

What was it that Noel Gallagher once said about System of a Down -- that he felt lucky to be alive to see the single worst band to exist in history? I feel something similar about "Freaxxx." Each element of the song is so precisely calibrated to infuriate me -- ghastly synth presets, limp Cookie Monster screeching and enough Antares slathered about to make even Kanye bleed out his eye sockets -- that I can't help but be a little impressed. When accompanied by lyrics that raise emo's underlying virgin/whore complex into the rhetorical troposphere and a visual aesthetic that's equal parts Tokio Hotel, Cobrasnake and the Cash Fan Guy, something more is at play here than a series of missteps from an over-mediated young band.

What we have here are the hideous side effects of Internet-culture music poptimism: a world in which every trope of every genre, sub- or not, is so instantly accessible, consumable and repeatable that to "like" something is completely subsumed by the act of "acknowledging" something. As terrifying as "Freaxxx" is to listen to, its main function is not as song, but as a checklist of pop culture talking points -- there is autotune, there is screamo, there are awful house beats, there is casual misogyny and committed misogyny (dig the third verse where "Freaxxx" inexplicably turns into a Rollins Band song). There's even an oddly moralist acknowledgement on their website that the liquid in the 40-ounce malt liquor bottle was, allegedly, apple juice. In this handful of dust, Brokencyde has shown you the entirety of inside-baseball mall emo and Top-40 radio from T-Pain to Hinder to T.I. to Jonas Brothers.

There are so many inscrutable moments in the song and video (for instance, how would an eager young lady go about taking off her panties, then her pants, as the song suggests?) that it could amply reward a whole afternoon of putting off work for repeat viewings. But mocking it or questioning its motives is to earnestly engage with the song, an act that's inherently meaningless because there is no motive except allusion and misdirection. So let's all stand in awe that Hot Topic finally has its own R. Kelly -- a villain who loves to hate himself, who returns our scornful gaze with an eager mirror.

--August Brown

This one? I now want to listen to this band, if only to see how much they annoy me. Instead, I'm listening to the correct way to do things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9i2fqxSjTI

[Obev]

And until thirty seconds ago I was listening to Brokencyde's "Freaxx." I got seventeen seconds in before I wanted to kill something.

And not in a good "Amon Amarth make me want to take a longboat to Denmark and pillage" kind of way.

Miles Davis will help the pain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8QhjwVy7Ng

Aahhh, that's better.

[Pun]

[Howard Roark]

soko - I'll kill her

[Pun]

another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZC3iOo8gaE

Can't go wrong with Marty Friedman and Gus G.

[Pun]

Jeff Loomis - Miles of Machines

[Natallon]

Everybody's Changing - Keane

[_chuchu]

[Tarmo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma0CDZANe0A
BTDKYAD - My Love I See Your Miasma

[_chuchu]

nsfw, depends on who you ask.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f30PxyNfSA

[Shalyn]

The birthday song, woo! Or not. Fuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43qazwL3D8
What a shitty day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3DnoxzorYg
I've had this song in my head for about .... 14 years

[Natallon]

Alive - Black Eyed Peas

[Sunrider]

Bobby Valentino feat. Jay Read & Timbaland - "Anonymous"

[_chuchu]