Reminder that this album is just 5 months old and it already has more ratings than every album by Interpol...

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Reminder that this album is just 5 months old and it already has more ratings than every album by Interpol...

Reminder that this album is just 5 months old and it already has more ratings than every album by Interpol, Kate Bush, Elliott Smith, Massive Attack, Nine Inch Nails, Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros, System of a Down, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Boards of Canada, Smashing Pumpkins, Queens of the Stone Age, The Avalanches, Yes, Burial, Charles Mingus, Jimi Hendrix, Depeche Mode, Deftones, Tool, Michael Jackson, Arctic Monkeys, Can, Alice in Chains, Frank Zappa, Iron Maiden, Beach House, Duster, LCD Soundsystem, Pearl Jam, Talk Talk, Flaming Lips, Slayer, Brian Eno, Modest Mouse, OutKast, Flying Lotus, Burzum, My Chemical Romance, Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, Oasis, The Stone Roses, New Order, Pavement, The Stooges, Leonard Cohen, Stevie Wonder, Belle and Sebastian, The Who, Neil Young, Green Day, Death, Joni Mitchell, Wire, Coldplay, Rolling Stones, Linkin Park, The White Stripes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Kraftwerk, Queen, Dead Kennedys, Captain Beefheart, Rush, Genesis, R.E.M., AC/DC, Beastie Boys, Muse, Ween, Opeth, Soundgarden, Brand New, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Fugazi

What does that say about the site?

it says that people are focused on rating new and popular stuff instead of rating and talking about old stuff, I really don't care desu.

And yet, no one has heard it.

This album feels like some kind of a psyop
I remember when all that brat summer crap was everywhere for a short time and it died down immediately
It lasted even shorter time than Hawk Tuah

it says that YOU need to get off whatever website that was taken from

3.85

OH NO NO NO Charliesisters, it's getting lowered now that that the users who do multiple listenings are rating it

kamala
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Reminder that paying attention to RYM ratings is a mental illness that warps how you engage with music. Do yourself a favor and never use that site again.

I have been using rym for over a decade and I remember when every overhyped album didn't instantly get into top 500

Meanwhile the true song of the summer of 2024...

Nothing in brat gets even closer, not even the song with billie eilish kek

It was 100% coordinated. Music conglomerates (small and large) and independent artists know about the power of RYM and its ability to positively etch records into the cultural landscape. RYM is being exploited bigly. You really think this album rateyourmusic.com/release/album/magdalena-bay/imaginal-disk/ got where it is naturally? Not a fucking chance in hell. Great records take time to become "legendary" status. In addition to RYM efforts, it's not hard to coordinate a meme campaign these days (see brat meme). If you know the right IG/TikTok accounts, meme or otherwise, to push your stupid campaigns its not hard to create a positive upward spiral. It all kinda sucks desu. People fall for it day in and day out. ngl shit makes me want to kms. It's all so fake and hollow, especially the music behind all of this.

why do hipsters prefer Charli XCX to literal whos like Charles Mingus or normieslop like Linkin Park

kys

hipsters now fall for heavily marketed psyops

Sad!

it makes sense, people are more likely to rate new stuff

This. I mean who really cares about someone's review of "Thriller"? Legendary album, top selling of all time, blah blah blah....like what more is there to say about it?

Whereas if you review current stuff it has more the feeling of controlling the direction of culture. Adding your input into what's happening now

My two only frinds on rym who rated that album one gave it 1 star, the other 3 stars

people are more likely to rate new stuff

Her second most rated album has less than 30k ratings after 5 years

To this day I've still never hear it.

seems like a (You) problem, mentally sane people can use RYM just to discover music

My average rating from 26 friends is 3.37

I mean 4 years

her 2020 album has 30k ratings, was that also a psyop?

it's not hard to coordinate a meme campaign these days

not hard to create a positive upward spiral

Ok so why isn't everyone doing it? Don't hate on Charli or Magdalena bay for playing the game well

That's not as heavily astrotufed as an album getting almost 40k ratings in 6 months

you still haven't learned english either

The Charli hype was very shortly lived, it just didn't caught on, because none of the songs are catchy enough to stick. Simple as.

Album keep getting rereleased over and over again with completely remixed versions of every track

This is how you know it’s overrated (that doesn’t mean bad btw).
A classic album is an album that is perfectly crafted from beginning to end and each track is perfectly aligned. If you can completely change the album and it doesn’t completely destroy the album’s identity, it is not a classic album.

it's called "being popular", Brat has literally 10x more streams than this 2020 album

Popular by what measure? I literally never heard a song from it in the radio

I do think there’s something suspect about all of these electropop albums all of the sudden getting 20k or more ratings in a month

rym is insanely saturated with tiktok zoomers and fantanoites fixated on whatever the new popular thing is, even if you're solely using the site to find music (as it should be) you're best off skipping the first few most popular pages for basically any genre since overrated garbage always floats to the top

Okay you're right. I left an important part out.

it's not hard to coordinate a meme campaign these days

not hard to create a positive upward spiral

if you have money and clout

Charli or Magdalena bay

Them and THEIR TEAMS are playing the game well. Individually they don't deserve all the credit. I'd argue they are nothing more than just the face of a slop machine.

Not my problem at all. I don't use the site and never will. Even a quick review of posts and comments on this board show that it's for shallow, hype chasing fools. And I didn't say anything about music discovery, only paying attention to the 100% meaningless ratings.

you're best off skipping the first few most popular pages for basically any genre since overrated garbage always floats to the top

Lol are you one of those people who thinks any album with more 1000 ratings is normie shit?

RYM is still good for finding good music but the charts for any year after 2010 are almost worthless

Cool what do you use to find music?

nah I listen to a fair amount of normie-adjacent shit like radiohead, tame impala, etc.; I've just noticed that a lot of the better stuff isn't on the first couple pages if you're searching by genres
yeah the current "community" on rym is nightmarishly bad, still one of the better resources to find music though

RYM sucks now, use Sputnikmusic instead

Depends which genre, the worst offender are various electronic genres where top albums are weeb game soundtracks

ZOOMERS KILLED RYM LIKE THEY KILLD LETTERBOXD

zoomers have been on a rampage desu. im growing tired of it.

millenial bros how to resurrect the underground and keep zoomies out? is it even possible anymore tiktok? every time they find out about something they run to Tiktok to claim their social points.

Brat is better than all of those except Hendrix.

Bandcamp. Not the editorial picks, though.

Lol

except Hendrix

Elaborate

it's good to discover music but the ratings can be super arbitrary sometimes

pure faggotry. that's what's happening now and you're a big part of it.

I genuinely thought there was supposed to be something more edgy about this artist or to this album than people give it credit for. The lyrics are catchy and the instrumentals remind me of old Monster Cat. That's it.
Doesn't feel special or resonate with me. The cover is the most basic shit but easily replicated.
The reason for the mass amount of ratings is because they all come from zoomers who meme it to high heaven for reasons stated above.

That Scaring the Hoes album from last year also has nearly 40k ratings, what's so special about it?

she brought down Kamala Harris from the inside
show some respect

it's unironically his worst album, painfully forgettable