Modern Qualifier 52 – THE INTERNET

This is the second of two groups on a theme picked by participants and with tracks drawn from your suggestions.

From the soundtrack to the comedian’s 2021 film Inside.
From the Houston rapper’s 2005 LP The People’s Champ.
From the cyber-pop artist’s 2019 debut full LP Serotonin II.
A 2017 standalone single from the UK dance-pop group.

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j_e_l

26 May 2023 13:19

Oh damn! Should have mentioned Mike Hanley’s song about ILX from the ILX comp –
https://cmajel.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-everything-mike-hanley

j_e_l

26 May 2023 13:31

Bo’s song was the most internet-y, but I didn’t really enjoy it, so I voted for Yeule, as liked the creepy beats and whatnot

Tom

26 May 2023 16:03

Reply to j_e_l

We don’t normally get things like Bo Burnham in the polls so I was keen to put it in and yet I have no intention of ever getting past the first 15 seconds.

sclv

27 May 2023 00:56

Reply to Tom

I’d urge folks to try to give it a full listen — might not be your favorite, but it goes a few interesting places not captured by the first seconds, and the chorus of “interest you in everything all of the time” became a bit of a tiktok meme, summing up our hyperactive social-feed moment for a lot of people.

wmterhaar

26 May 2023 19:41

Reply to Tom

If we’re going that way, we should have nominated to all time classic ‘The Internet Is for Porn’.

Tom

26 May 2023 16:04

Feel like Paul Wall’s song was the most relatable here, who among us has not had the Internet going nutz.

Tom

26 May 2023 16:04

Reply to Tom

He missed a trick by not calling the screwed + chopped version “Dial-Up Mix” tho.

legsdiamond

26 May 2023 21:21

nothing represents the chasm between “what the internet was/could’ve been” and “what the internet is now” better than paul wall vs. bo burnham. and i mean that as an insult to bo burnham.

koganbot

27 May 2023 21:19

Reply to legsdiamond

Voted for Burnham but kinda hoping it loses so I won’t have to listen to it again. But he did hold the floor better than Marina Diamandis, my second choice – though I always like hearing Marina’s voice, and I almost voted for her on that account.

machotrouts

28 May 2023 02:20

I assumed ‘Welcome to the Internet’ was about 20 years old until I got to the “boomer groomer zoomer” bit. It sounds like it was written to play over a Flash animation on Newgrounds. Inexplicable to still be writing Harry Potter Rule 34 jokes in 2021, unless you’re Lemon Demon waking up from a cryogenic sleep.

And nobody still needs to be “welcomed” to the internet! We’re all here already!