Classic album without question

yeah that's a good one

Critics loved this album lmao

ill always have a soft spot for this one

I been saying!!

dude posting albums that got literally hundreds of millions of streams and calling it cult lol

the number of viewers or streams doesn’t matter, it’s about the overall reception. There’s tons of movies who have been seen by millions of peoples and are considered cult because only a minor percentage of them liked it..

trash then, trash now

that's not a cult classic, that means some people are in denial lol

if a good period of time has elapsed, millions have seen it, and a small percentage like it, then it's not very good

Scott Pilgrim was a cult classic for almost a decade

not many people knew of it, it was very lowkey, but a massive percentage of the small amount of people who peeped it loved it

you can excuse so many horrible mainstream works if you just say "this small niche f***ed with it". The Fantastic 4 movie is a cult classic

what..

who are you to decide if liking something automatically makes you in denial universally lmao there’s no metric for that

cult definition: “a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing”

"A cult film, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film with a cult following, obscure or unpopular with mainstream audiences, and often revolutionary or ironically enjoyed"

what's the purpose of only finding a definition for cult lmao. The term "cult classic" has never been used to define popular garbage that 3% of listeners liked

you’ve never heard of b movies of the 60/70/80s or dusty italian horror movies? considered bad cinema by the majority but have huge fan followings because people dig their aesthetic and cheap stories

a cult classic can be popular like bti because like you side by very definition is not liked by majority of the audience (critics being a big point)

or it can be niche and obscure forms of entertainment that have yet to be seen by a majority group

If it's considered not good by people but just haven't been viewed/listened to by alot of people, that's entirely differerent

Illmatic was a cult classic until it got more listeners a couple years later, then it became a classic. BTI had a ton of listeners from the jump. What you're describing excuses literally every bad project man lol

just was listening 2 this twin

idek that song bruh

whoa what the hell

BTI great

too bad it was a fluke though

BTI is also great because Glover managed to capture something true and essential about the zeitgeist. I think what differentiates a true masterpiece from a great work of art is the fact that a masterpiece is a testimony to its era. It gives you a kind of meaningful idea of what was going on when it was conceived. And that’s exactly what Glover did with this album. Hell, it’s extremely relevant 7 years later.

“Flight of the Navigator” is still his best song.

album sucks

Except it makes sense with BTI.

One of the main motifs/themes of the album is hyperreality: what is real and what is represented (through media, art etc.) are blended together, there’s no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins. So the fact that there’s an entire artistic universe around that album makes sense. Glover created an alternate fictional reality which echoes his own existence. But instead on insisting on a distinction, he managed to create a continuum between those two fields.

Of course, this theme has to do that with the idea of Internet itself. The past few years proved that Internet expanded hyperreality more than anything else in post-modern history: people are actually doing surgeries to look like Snapchat filters, virtual human billboards are labeled “influencers”, individuals are reduced to what they appear to be on their social media profiles etc.

That’s why it’s so important to fully immerse yourself in that universe to understand the album. I said that an entire universe was built around that album but it’s not accurate: the album is but a piece of that universe. If you don’t dive in it, you won’t get the full picture.

great album but not THE album