Reacting to "Icedancer" by Bladee
The long requested "Drain Gang" weekend has arrived. It's this album and 'E' by Ecco2k. That reaction will be ready shortly (got an early start today now that my wife and son are done with school)
Enjoy!
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Comments (23)
"You play like us open" they mean "you play" meaning you mess with me, and they "play" on the US open, really just a dumb bar xd
i think bladee is like a modern, natural continuation of robert smith's disintegration all the self loathing and insecurity mixed with the numbness about all of it and the whole melodrama being contrived is what I come to both for, except for when bladee was struck by lightning in thailand after icedancer and became my spirit guide, which robert smith has never done for me, drain gang shit, man
struck by lightning!?
I think one really should not underestimate the amount of humor there is within a lot of Bladee’s work, musically and visually. Not in a way that it’s insincere or some form of parody, but more so that life is but a joke and existence can seem kind of absurd or surreal and sometimes you relate to reality in a kinda cartoonish way. Regarding the Topman music video - I don't necessarily think you’re supposed to take it completely "seriously". Bladee is a goofy guy but some of his humor might be lost on people at first. I think the music video is intentionally funny and slightly uncanny, it kinda illustrates the way he portrays himself on Icedancer.
I think a lot of it is hard to grasp on first exposure. It's almost like people and getting to know their personality to really understand who they are, music can sometimes be the same way (videos too)
I would love for you to go through Bladees discography because he has an insane spiritual drug journey that turns his lyrics completely abstract and Godly and his recent project is a relapse of his Spirit and its just crazy diff from this era Bladee
Holy shit. I remember a few years ago DMing you when youd get to artists like Bladee and holy shit
Don’t fault yourself for not liking this. You need to be severely impacted by whippet addiction to find Bladee listenable. His good friend Yung Lean however is a much better artist who actually knows what to do with his voice (for the most of the time) which results in some god damn beautiful songs. Like damn near top 10 rap songs of all time beautiful. “Draingang” is more of a trend right now but Yung Lean would 100% be more to your tastes, and is basicaly the whole foundation of the drain gang style
And if you were going to listen to Yung Lean, I’d suggest starting with “Stranger” or “Starz”. Sometimes the earliest work isn’t the best jumping in point for a middle aged metalhead fan. Especially not when the early work was made by like 15 year olds. That doesn’t change the fact that the later work is magical, however
Don’t forget Yung lean Bob he my fav out off all these swedes
Bob don’t fw Cartier god⁉️😪
I think you’d like cold visions, Working on Dying, or the Rip Bladee ep (one of my favs) a lot more they are a lot harder full with bangers. Very different then icedancer so it’d be worth giving a chance
“6 upside down, that’s a 9” had me laughing so hard
Most useful annotation ever
FINALLY LMAO. Honestly I had assumed you listened to Bladee and scrapped the video because you disliked him so much 😂 I enjoy this album a lot but only when the songs are standalone.... Playing the album all the way through things get super repetitive especially near the end. You mention Cold Visions but if you listen to more you should 100% listen in chronological order! He has a hell of an evolution as an artist and imo every album after Ice Dancer are really fun listens with some lyrics you can probably vibe with more. Spiderr, The Fool, and 333 all show some pretty big improvements in lyrics and mental state :) Exeter doesn't get much love but its a pretty fun listen too. Hope we get to see more
I've seen people mention he's evolved a lot, makes me interested but also terrified lol
I feel like the fool should of been your first bladee album. For sure the most listenable bladee album and the best for new listeners
LESSSSS GOOOO
We got Bob reacting to Bladee over luv is rage 2😭
lol
DRAIN WEEKEND im sure u hear this alot but i think you would love yung leans album “stranger”. way more lyrical, and dark, and beautiful. im sure u will get to it eventually
This style of music was good when it came out, unfortunately doesn’t hold up well. Intermission only good thing
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