#dave burd

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Dave (2020- ) tv sitcom (on hiatus)

-(finished) watchin' Season 3- 4/28/2024- 3 [1/2] stars- on Hulu (FX)

90% Rotten Tomatoes

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Dave, Season 3 (2023)

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i almost hate to say it, but the season 3 finale of Dave was one of the funniest things i've seen in recent memory

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Album(s) Of The Month: January 2024

Something I wanted to try this year is talking about what I would consider to be my album(s) of the month. These may be albums that are new, or they’re just albums I’ve been listening to, and I sort of wanted to start this series as a way to document what I’ve been listening to throughout the year. I may end up talking about albums that I already reviewed, or going back to albums that I haven’t listened to in awhile, but these are albums that I’ve been playing the most throughout the month and that summarize the month for me. These aren’t my favorites of the year, although oftentimes they may be, but these are just albums I’ve been playing a lot. I may want to do between one to five albums, and sometimes it may just be one, but I want to put a cap on it at five. This year, kind of like last year, I don’t want to overwhelm myself with music, so I’m only really listening to a handful of albums over any given week, including new releases. I don’t want to talk about everything I listen to, or listen to everything, but I still wanted to highlight a few things at the end of the month that I’ve been listening to a lot.

Lil Dicky - Penith

The first album of this year that I can say I really love, especially in the sense that it’s already my album of the year, and it’s surprisingly by rapper Lil Dicky, who put out his sophomore album, Penith. This is supposed to be the fictional album from the show Dave that be produces and stars in, which is about a fictionalized version of him, real name Dave Burd, and his career, and this album is composed of songs in the show (most of which were just snippets, so these are all full versions of songs). This album is a ton of fun, especially if you’re already a fan of his work, or the show, because the songs do make more sense in context, but I had a blast listening to this even without watching the show first. Even afterwards, I still love this album, and within in the context of the show, it’s even better. The album relies on a lot of Dicky’s usual shtick, but there are some insightful and emotional moments here, too, so there’s a nice variety of ideas and sounds.

Neck Deep - S/T

Neck Deep surprised me by putting out their best album, well, ever. This is my favorite Neck Deep record, and it’s telling that it’s a self-titled album. These pop-punk vets got their start more than a decade ago, and they were part of the up and coming pop-punk resurgence that happened in the early 2010s, but they’re part of the old guard now, and this album is a reinvention / return to their classic sound but with an older outlook, and in that respect, it works wonders.

Beartooth - The Surface

This month has been mainly spent revisiting a few albums from the past few years, including Beartooth’s latest, The Surface, from October of this past year. I really love that album, and it was in my top five of 2023, but it’s held up quite well. This was my favorite metalcore album of 2023, and of the last few years, really. I just love this album, and I wrote a whole piece recently about why this album holds up so well.

The Home Team - Slow Bloom

I also spent a lot of time this month listening to The Home Team’s newest album, Slow Bloom, much to the request of my buddy Jake, because we debuted a new series on here where we recommend each other albums and talk about them. I recommended the newest Bring Me The Horizon album, Post Human: Survival Horror, and we talked about those two albums, so instead of going on about how good those two albums are and what they mean for metalcore, go check out our piece on them.

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Head down, workin' high tension

That's how it goes with intentions (Uh)

I'm pessimistic that I'm losin' some, but I'm optimistic we can get wins

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Today’s bop.

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Mr. McAdams oficial music video

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Dave Burd & GaTa | Interview | June 2023

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The writing and production on this show is top notch. Each episode is surprising, sweet, complex, and has something to say. And looks great! That Rick Ross episode was something else. I don't want season three to end...

Based on the description of FX’s new series Dave, you’d have no idea about the heart behind the show.

Read it here

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Dave (2020- ) sitcom

-(started) watchin' Season 3- 2/19/2024- on Hulu (FX)

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On his show Dave, Dave Burd walks a fine line between fact and fiction when it comes to his Lil Dicky character. Of course, he's not just a character -- he's Burd's rapping alter ego, who's had some success with his 2015 album and some hit singles. But while the temptation is there to simply retell the Lil Dicky story for the screen, Burd says that, for the show's sake, the fictionalized version is actually much more interesting. 

Dave airs Wednesday nights on FXX, and episodes start streaming the following day on Hulu.

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Dave - Season 2 (2021)

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Lil Dicky - Penith

Here’s an interesting little factoid that you may have never thought about until now: it’s been nine years since Lil Dicky dropped an album. Lil Dicky, real name Dave Burd, has been a busy man in that time, whether it was releasing a few singles or being hard at work with his show on FXX, Dave, which premiered in 2020 and is based on a fictionalized version of his rise to fame. If you’re young enough, or you’re just not familiar with his work, Lil Dicky is one of the first rappers to go viral online, I suppose, as he got huge for dropping songs on YouTube until he released his debut album, 2015’s Professional Rapper. The biggest single from that album, “$ave Dat Money,” featured Rich Homie Quan and Fetty Wap, who were two huge artists at the time, and it was a song that satirized hip-hop’s infatuation with material wealth. He came up around the same time as Bo Burnham, The Lonely Island, and those guys, but because he was funny within his music, LD was labeled as a “comedy rapper,” so he got unfairly lumped into that category. Truth be told, Professional Rapper is a funny album, as a lot of the songs are based around a joke, and have punchlines within them, but I wouldn’t call him a comedy rapper. I think he got written off as such, and a lot of people either don’t take him seriously as a rapper or they just don’t think he’s funny. I can understand people not thinking he’s funny, because comedy is objective, but Lil Dicky has more going for him than your standard comedy rapper.

Lil Dicky’s place in hip-hop is very interesting to think about in retrospect, especially with conversations about cultural appropriation, but that’s always the issue with white rappers. Because hip-hop is predominately a Black genre, Lil Dicky getting popular for being a white man in a Black-dominated genre is something worth examining (he does talk about this a bit on his show in a few episodes). That’s why it’s so fascinating that he dropped an album recently. Entitled Penith, this marks his first album in almost nine years, but this album makes more sense if you watch Dave. The songs on the album are from the show, a lot of which are full versions of snippets that appeared, and Penith was the name of LD’s fictional album in the show that he’s spent the entirety of the show working on. I first listened to this album without any of that context, so I went into this album with not knowing what to expect, and I gotta be honest — I absolutely love it. Penith is such a fun yet insightful and vulnerable album, and I ended up rewriting this review after watching through a lot of the show. You can listen to this album in two ways — either not having seen the show, and listening to the songs at face value, or watching the show and knowing the context behind these songs. If you go into it without knowing anything about the show, and you’re already an LD fan, you’ll enjoy it, because it features a lot of what he’s known for, which are cheesy, corny, and mostly funny punchlines, as well as his relatively smooth, solid, and easygoing flow, but it has some vulnerability and self-reflection that I didn’t hear on Professional Rapper. That’s what makes this album better, frankly, because instead of Lil Dicky trying to rely on a character on Professional Rapper, he wants people to know who Dave Burd is.

The album admittedly works better in context with the show, because the emotional songs fit into the narrative of the show. A good example is the breakup song “Ally’s Song,” which can be taken as a breakup song in which LD misses his girlfriend, and putting music ahead of her, but if you haven’t watched the show, you wouldn’t know who Ally is. Even some of the more humorous and fun songs, such as “My D!ck Sucks,” make more sense in context with the show. That song is what the Lil Dicky in Dave puts out and goes viral, making him famous online, but it’s a fun and catchy little song about how his dick (which is admittedly more of what Lil Dicky already has been doing). There are some songs that appeared on the show that stand on their own, such as “Harrison Ave,” which is about LD falling in love for the first time as a teenager and the ups and downs that come with young love. “Mr. McAdams” is a song that you can listen to on its own, because it’s about LD’s celebrity crush on Rachel McAdams, but it’s from an episode of the show, where he gets to meet her. There are plenty more, but a lot of this album can he listened to without watching the show, whether it’s the more fun and energetic songs, or the vulnerable and emotional songs, and some of those are among the best cuts of the album. “Honestly,” “Still Freestylin’,” “I Love Myself,” “Going Gray,” and a handful more, are songs that showcase a more mature and emotional side of Lil Dicky that fans may have never seen, as his music was always more fun and silly, but those types of songs are here, too, such as “HAHAHA,” “Kareem Abdul-Jabar,” “I’m Drunk,” “No Fruits Or Vegetables,” and a bunch more.

At the end of the day, your enjoyment of this album depends on how much you enjoy Lil Dicky, and if you’re not a fan, I don’t think you’ll like it. This album admittedly relies on his usual shtick, including dick jokes, sex jokes, and all that stuff, but when the album gets insightful, it gets more interesting. You can definitely tell that he has grown as a person, and sort of as a musician, because he sounds better, and the production is pretty solid throughout this album. There aren’t quite any misfires, or any songs I don’t like, but there are some songs I like more than others. Nonetheless, Penith is an album I love, and I’d say that this is my current favorite album of the year. That’s wild, because Lil Dicky coming out with a new album in 2024 and it being really good was not on my bingo card for this year. We’ll see how the album holds up throughout the year, but I’m excited, because this album is really good, and so is Dave. Watch that show if you haven’t yet, it’s real good. The album works better if you’ve seen the show, but you can still listen to it without any context and it’ll hold up just fine.