Chance of Fred Again?

[gfa]

2 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

Enjoy Brixton! I've found his shows better than festival sets. Although worry the hype is almost guaranteed to result in a disappointing night now.

Bar set pretty high then as APE was one of my favourite sets this year! Hope we get some guests 🙂

[CaledonianGonzo]

6 hours ago, jannybruck said:

I think the only thread Fred Again is not relentlessly chatted up on here is the legends at the moment, though I'm sure someone will put him forward for that at some point.

Check out yesterday...

[Muppetmark]

The hype behind him makes him the perfect fit to be Sunday WH

[2loor2iller]

Seems destined to follow in the footsteps of Disclosure, and inevitably Bicep, and do the WH headliner > Other headliner a couple of years later thing imo. Obviously needs to keep up the momentum, but his brand of euphoric house is always gonna be popular with the younger audience so I’d be surprised if he didn’t just go from strength to strength over the next few years. 

[august1]

He's playing as Fred on the Saturday, Fred again on Sunday.

[gfa]

Wonder if he'll do multiple sets so we can see him again and again

[MaxPower]

12 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

Honestly I don't get people, there's a good artist loads are stoked about but they decide that because he's popular they need shit on him. 🙄

I get it's meant to be funny but it's just mean spirited. 

 

 

It is directly related to the fact if you in any way consume electronic music, then social media and music platform algorithms will have aggressively and constantly shoved his content into your feed/face non-stop since his Boiler Room.

He’s also organically on people’s timelines because people with a passing or surface level interest in dance music are posting about him a lot - and constantly bringing him up in relation to Glastonbury (as others have pointed out, he’s brought up regularly in every efests thread other than the Legend Slot thread).

He’s also a wealthy middle class/upper middle class white bloke who got his start in music because his neighbour was Brian Eno, who invited him to join an a capella group that included Annie Lennox.

Also if you follow electronic music press, he’s had substantial industry interest and backing for longer than the recent spurt of hype.

That level of overexposure, combined with background and context, justifiably turns people against an artist (particularly if you think most of his music is shit or average).

Edited December 5, 2022 by MaxPower

[Jose Pose]

I think it’s probably less complex than that, a lot of people like to think they’re different and superior to every other human on the planet and when they see an act have a surge in popularity they rail against it, because they don’t want to be seen to follow the crowd. This place attracts the 1% of music obsessives, but I highly doubt most people know about or care that Fred Again.. is from a privileged background, they’re even less likely to know who his next door neighbour was.

I see him as the electro version of Sam Fender, a likeable bloke with great tunes but people automatically take a dislike to him simply because so many other people like him for very obvious reasons.

Edited December 5, 2022 by Jose Pose

[MaxPower]

Just now, Jose Pose said:

I think it’s probably less complex than that, a lot of people like to think they’re different and superior to every other human on the planet and when they see an act have a surge in popularity they rail against it, because they don’t want to be seen to follow the crowd. This place attracts the 1% of music obsessives, but I highly doubt most people know about or care than Fred Again.. is from a privileged background.

I see him as the electro version of Sam Fender, a likeable bloke with great tunes but people automatically take a dislike to him simply because so many other people like him for very obvious reasons.

Think your explanation is more complex than mine. The background is an aside, the main thing is his omnipresence is fucking annoying.

[Justcalledtosay]

He’s been nominated for BBC Sound of 2023

[leath02]

11 minutes ago, Jose Pose said:

I think it’s probably less complex than that, a lot of people like to think they’re different and superior to every other human on the planet and when they see an act have a surge in popularity they rail against it, because they don’t want to be seen to follow the crowd. This place attracts the 1% of music obsessives, but I highly doubt most people know about or care that Fred Again.. is from a privileged background, they’re even less likely to know who his next door neighbour was.

I see him as the electro version of Sam Fender, a likeable bloke with great tunes but people automatically take a dislike to him simply because so many other people like him for very obvious reasons.

 

10 minutes ago, MaxPower said:

Think your explanation is more complex than mine. The background is an aside, the main thing is his omnipresence is fucking annoying.

An Electro version of Sam Fender is the perfect explaination. Perfectly agreeable, seemingly nice bloke, but overly popular for no reason what so ever. All the songs sound relatively the same, musical talent and range relatively low and un-interesting. Mass market appeal because it stays in a very specific lane. Basically the musical equivelence of a loaf of Hovis.

Edited December 5, 2022 by leath02

[Leyrulion]

8 hours ago, MaxPower said:

It is directly related to the fact if you in any way consume electronic music, then social media and music platform algorithms will have aggressively and constantly shoved his content into your feed/face non-stop since his Boiler Room.

He’s also organically on people’s timelines because people with a passing or surface level interest in dance music are posting about him a lot - and constantly bringing him up in relation to Glastonbury (as others have pointed out, he’s brought up regularly in every efests thread other than the Legend Slot thread).

He’s also a wealthy middle class/upper middle class white bloke who got his start in music because his neighbour was Brian Eno, who invited him to join an a capella group that included Annie Lennox.

Also if you follow electronic music press, he’s had substantial industry interest and backing for longer than the recent spurt of hype.

That level of overexposure, combined with background and context, justifiably turns people against an artist (particularly if you think most of his music is shit or average).

I get all the background, not liking an artist is one thing, saying you think he's over rated/overexposed is also understandable. Going out of your way to actually create content letting everyone know that is another thing entirely, I don't understand why people feel the need to expend the effort.

It's not going to affect him at all so why get into that negative headspace.