The reactions to this album are very opposed, people either are all over it or absolutely detest it
who are these people that are all over it? The positive reactions that I've seen generally fall into two categories: aspirings blatantly begging the retweet and the routine show of support/half-hearted defence by people who are (or in anonymous cases I'm guessing that they are) stakeholders of some kind in the same industry.
This post from a few pages back seems representative:
y'guys got hang ups. man's been playing big rooms so let him fill them up if he wants. TBH, I can dig this perspective and vibe. Appropriate amount of self-consciousness with an obviously talented touch. Heavy handed? sure. but, it's 2012 and I can take it like a man.
1. Insinuation that you must have some sort of hating-related issue, or a deeply repressed love of insipid progressive breaks that you cannot bring yourself to acknowledge if you don't like this record.
2. Appeal to functionality. "big room", prime time, etc.. Do these ever NOT indicate complete dreck? I honestly feel like it is an iron rule that whenever the old mixmag/knowledge/press release functionalist descriptions like "quality soulful tune for the ladeez" or "peak hour amen stormer" are invoked, you are dealing with a bad record.
3. Half-hearted, unconvincing protestation that the reviewer, y'know, really honestly enjoys the record - really. Does anyone here believe for one second that this commenter actually does "dig" this record?? I find it very hard to believe. I mean: "dig".
4. Vague, unsupported sounds-like-something-a-critic-would-say claims that are meant to establish that the purported enjoyment has some objective justification. "Appropriate amount of self-consciousness with an obviously talented touch." What is an appropriate amount of self-consciousness? And where is the evidence of
obvious talent in this record?
Anyway, call me crazy, but I get the sense that someone like "looks" stands to benefit from Scuba's career, somehow, some way, however minor. Seems like circling the wagons to me. If those are the only good things you have to say about a record, why else would you even bother?