{"id":279,"date":"2021-11-09T19:20:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/?p=279"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:14:33","slug":"lil-ugly-mane-styrofoam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Lil Ugly Mane &#8211; styrofoam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"styrofoam\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GMgifV2aeBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this very recent track from Travis Miller (aka Lil Ugly Mane), Miller goes completely left-field to create a plunderphonics pop song based around ragtime samples. His unique mixing emphasizes and recontextualizes the feelings of 1920s-40s pop music. The whimsy turns to melancholy with Travis&#8217; despondent vocals, mixed to sound similarly like a dusty, obscure phonograph record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He inverts this further, not choosing to simply recreate a ragtime song but situate anachronistic sounds and elements within the context of a 20s-40s song. It takes the form of sounding like a psychedelic black and white art film &#8212; time stretching and pitch shifting of these old-timey samples with turntable scratches and warps. Miller assumes the role of both an extremely depressed lounge singer and the first and only phonograph DJ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this very recent track from Travis Miller (aka Lil Ugly Mane), Miller goes completely left-field to create a plunderphonics pop song based around ragtime samples. His unique mixing emphasizes and recontextualizes the feelings of 1920s-40s pop music. The whimsy turns to melancholy with Travis&#8217; despondent vocals, mixed to sound similarly like a dusty, obscure&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/?p=279\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lil Ugly Mane &#8211; styrofoam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2021","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classapps.chass.ncsu.edu\/com304\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}