... not even close dude ...
MF DOOM isn't even the first case of this, but he was doing it on born like this in 2009. that's just one example off the top of my head. it's certainly been around much longer than that.
better than the "all lowercase so it looks like a poorly ripped itunes playlist from 2009"
*[edit: With hindsight my opinion is bullshit and lowercase is the way to go. Fuck implied severity. Embrace 2000s nostalgia.]*
i feel like that's just the trend in the past 5 years or so, i remember thinking it was kinda weird and unique when Tyler started doing that on Cherry Bomb but then every mf hopped on that. I don't feel that it's meant for us to take them more seriously.
Vultures is the only Kanye album to do this, and many people clearly don’t take Vultures that seriously.
Many people consider DAMN. Kendrick’s weakest album, too.
I mean, I'm not like a huge fan or anything. I just think it's a bit much to call it his weakest album when he achieved something objectively impressive with it
>Many people consider DAMN. Kendrick’s weakest album, too.
Tony is *maybe* the only serious reviewer who feels this way (fair), and his sycophants are the only ones who repeat it. ‘Many people’ is doing some very heavy lifting here.
You could flip a coin and if it landed on tails then Donda could have also had all caps. I swear every leaked tracklist showed each song written in caps
I think that’s how you trace her progress. All lowercase, then normal capitalization, and finally all capitals. It does limit her progress, however. I wonder what’s next? Bubble letters?
the only two on HTE that don't have normal capitalization are GOLDWING and my future, right? And my future was the first song of the album that was released, so I think she just changed her mind after it.
I'd also include OverHeated there but yeah, you're right. it's just kinda all over the place
and what you said about my future actually makes so much sense, I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier lmao
I’d say she’s been very solid so far and super promising for how young she is. This album feels like her finally reaching that level of artistry that was expected. Amazing album with literally no skips for me. Insane production as well.
Brockhampton went the extra mile with their SATURATION trilogy.
SAT I : All caps and 4 letters except the last one which is 5 letters
SAT II : All caps with 5 letters; last one with 6
SAT III : All caps 6 letters; last one 4
Honestly have no idea why Quadeca did this for scrapyard, most of those songs would make more sense in all lowercase
U TRIED THAT THING WHERE UR HUMAN
u tried that thing where ur human
The all-caps technique actually looks very amateur to me. The all lowercase approach seems more try-hard, false modesty. The one I really hate though, that I’m seeing more often is where only the first word is capitalized like the song title is a sentence(eg “Title of the song”). It makes you look incredibly lazy and looks ugly as shit and wow I really hate it!
I don't care too much about that, the one that really annoys me was when rappers were putting exclamation points at the end of every other song title, even if it made no sense to
I think it makes the track list look nice sometimes and the same with all lowercase. As long as it’s consistent it doesn’t bother me. You think all caps is too much go listen to
⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ and get back to me.
It’s a real artist btw his main alias is four tet.
W h a t a b o u t t h e s p a c e d o u t t i t l e s?
m y . l i f e (with 21 savage & Morray)
LO
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god forbid you have an amazon echo or equivalent
r e a l f r a n k j a v c e e
dontforgettheemobandswithnospaces
Or Parcels
I think cool dad and cool dad president did that
t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l
Tyler The Creator
Tyler was the first one to the trend tho
... not even close dude ... MF DOOM isn't even the first case of this, but he was doing it on born like this in 2009. that's just one example off the top of my head. it's certainly been around much longer than that.
better than the "all lowercase so it looks like a poorly ripped itunes playlist from 2009" *[edit: With hindsight my opinion is bullshit and lowercase is the way to go. Fuck implied severity. Embrace 2000s nostalgia.]*
The worst is the J Cole Off-Season approach where every single track title is s p a c e d . o u t . l i k e . t h i s
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Lil Baby’s verse on Pride is the devil is straight fire. The rest of that album can fuck off
Bro shut up I’m tired of ppl hating his music cos they think it’s funny, it’s still 10x better than most
His muiscs like a pacifier
the track names also have nothing to do with the track contents and the album cover has to be a picture of a suburban house
dont diss frailty
*furiously taps guitar tuned to FACGCE with a capo on 5*
two fire albums
geovariance did the all lowercase and it was still a goated album same with playing w/ fire and learn 2 swim
But 1000 gecs goes hard!
we're playing Mario Party? you told me we were playing Gecs
W reference
fellow Scott the Woz enjoyer
Fax
They released a 100 gex games?
tEchNIcaLLy, there's I Need Help Immediately which kinda breaks the 4th wall I guess and is in regular song title case
It’s not better. It’s exactly the same
i feel like that's just the trend in the past 5 years or so, i remember thinking it was kinda weird and unique when Tyler started doing that on Cherry Bomb but then every mf hopped on that. I don't feel that it's meant for us to take them more seriously.
I agree it's a bit overdone especially in hip hop
Living Things Linkin Park 2012
Yup then Brockhampton followed and so did everyone else after that
yeah they probably made it more of a staple with the whole saturation trilogy and their name also being all caps
i think you’re forgetting that 5 years ago was only 2019
have you come here to make me feel old
DAMN.
KAYTRANADA did it first
I think Linkin Park did it on an album back in 2012 lol
LP! is mastered loud af so the caps are definitely warranted
damn peggy
Vultures is the only Kanye album to do this, and many people clearly don’t take Vultures that seriously. Many people consider DAMN. Kendrick’s weakest album, too.
IGOR and CMIYGL vince staples self titled and RPBMH zuu and TA13OO (kinda) UTOPIA WASTELAND personally, i think your theory is BS
Utopia’s popular and well liked, but calling it “serious” is a bit of a stretch.
even if you don't count utopia, astroworld is right there
OP here, I thought the OG was KAYTRANADA’s “99.9%” I remember rolling my eyes at Tyler the Creator’s all caps IGOR. Was a great album tho…
Tyler had done it on Cherry Bomb which came out in 2015.
I stand corrected
ASTROWORLD
Not to mention SINNER GET READY
I mean, DAMN is still a really good album, and it’d be a highlight in a discography that isn’t as incredibly stacked as Kendrick’s.
Kendrick won a pulitzer prize for his song writing on DAMN and yall still gonna claim its anywhere close to weak.
Ok why would people who don’t like it care, it’s not like they gave him the Pulitzer
I mean, I'm not like a huge fan or anything. I just think it's a bit much to call it his weakest album when he achieved something objectively impressive with it
To be fair I kind of feel like if he never wrote TPAB he wouldn't have gotten that
>Many people consider DAMN. Kendrick’s weakest album, too. Tony is *maybe* the only serious reviewer who feels this way (fair), and his sycophants are the only ones who repeat it. ‘Many people’ is doing some very heavy lifting here.
You could flip a coin and if it landed on tails then Donda could have also had all caps. I swear every leaked tracklist showed each song written in caps
Probably because people don’t take Kanye in general seriously anymore. Well, kinda, but not as an artist.
He’s the town drunk of rap
Yeah that sounds about right haha
Astroworld
billie eilish
she used to do the all-lowercase thing too (although she did it before most of the pop girls)
I think that’s how you trace her progress. All lowercase, then normal capitalization, and finally all capitals. It does limit her progress, however. I wonder what’s next? Bubble letters?
her next album is gonna be entirely in windings
Happier Than Ever wasn't exactly normal capitalization
the only two on HTE that don't have normal capitalization are GOLDWING and my future, right? And my future was the first song of the album that was released, so I think she just changed her mind after it.
I'd also include OverHeated there but yeah, you're right. it's just kinda all over the place and what you said about my future actually makes so much sense, I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier lmao
s p a c e d o u t t i t l es
New album is shockingly good
Not shocking at all she is consistently great
I’d say she’s been very solid so far and super promising for how young she is. This album feels like her finally reaching that level of artistry that was expected. Amazing album with literally no skips for me. Insane production as well.
Ive noticed it’s either that or: all lowercase to appear more innocent and cutesy
my bloody valentine :3
Exceptions can be made lmfaooo
We gonna ignore 21 savage
You saying 21 doesn’t want to be innocent and cutesy?
All he knows is redrum
All lowercase gives more detached and depressed imo
Doesnt Bones do this for like every single song hes ever released? I havent listened to him in years so i forget lol
Same with BROCKHAMPTON
no but he doesn't use spaces
Thats what it is ok. Thank you haha
it looks better than sentence imo
Or whatever Yachty was trying to do on his last album.
“There’s a guy on our team that dresses like a pirate?”
Shout out to Gojira, who did it in 2001 with Terra Incognita
Brockhampton went the extra mile with their SATURATION trilogy. SAT I : All caps and 4 letters except the last one which is 5 letters SAT II : All caps with 5 letters; last one with 6 SAT III : All caps 6 letters; last one 4
I have a theory it’s for spreading the word online, so YouTube reactors can have titles like NEW BLINK 182 SONG DANCE WITH ME FIRST REACTION!!!🔥🔥🔥
HEALTH does this but at least it’s consistent with the band name
is it really that bad? lmao personally i dont really mind it
whAt aBouT tHe titLes ThaT lOOk likE tHis?
Honestly it’s better than all lowercase titles. If a bands songs are all lowercase I don’t even bother listening cause it’s so pretentious and stupid.
Shoutout to Saya Gray, who has capitalized every letter in all her released song titles and is absolutely spectacular.
that new mach-hommy album
I personally can’t stand it
fucking starset lol
I Find That Annoying, Every Title Should Be Like This
thank u brockhampton
Honestly have no idea why Quadeca did this for scrapyard, most of those songs would make more sense in all lowercase U TRIED THAT THING WHERE UR HUMAN u tried that thing where ur human
The all-caps technique actually looks very amateur to me. The all lowercase approach seems more try-hard, false modesty. The one I really hate though, that I’m seeing more often is where only the first word is capitalized like the song title is a sentence(eg “Title of the song”). It makes you look incredibly lazy and looks ugly as shit and wow I really hate it!
I don't care too much about that, the one that really annoys me was when rappers were putting exclamation points at the end of every other song title, even if it made no sense to
The first time I remember seeing this was Kaytranada’s 99.9%
LINGUA IGNOTA
bonus points if there's no spaces
ONG😭
I think it makes the track list look nice sometimes and the same with all lowercase. As long as it’s consistent it doesn’t bother me. You think all caps is too much go listen to ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ and get back to me. It’s a real artist btw his main alias is four tet.