DA CAPO BEST MUSIC WRITING 2013

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2012/04/adele_plump_female_musicians_sex.php

adele_plump_female_musicians_sex.php

sigh

This list isn't about proclaiming exceptions or wearing a strong enough pair of beer goggles; it's about acknowledging that even the big girls need some love, and we're down to give to 'em.

what the

But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.
But that version of Aretha rolled down the fried-chicken-and-waffles mountain a long time ago.

this dude also wrote http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/2012/01/10_sexiest_super_bowl_commerci.php

didn't expect 'Broward' to be an actual place

I'm assuming this dude got paid to do this, right

8. Doritos - Ali Landry

This is a personal favorite, probably because it came out during the height our of teenage masturbatory fury. If this list were named "Hot Girls Who Had a Moment of Fame Because of Their Hotness but Couldn't Take It Anywhere Because They Had Absolutely No Talent At All," then Ali Landry would be way at the top, running a very far second to Megan Fox.

I'm assuming this dude got paid to do this, right

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:15 AM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark

$40, which is almsot worse than not even being paid at all

Was just going to ask that question (about getting paid).

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

that URL is really going nowhere good

this is basically why I don't read music blogs in a nutshell

a cheerily sexist nutshell

Was hard to pick a line out of it that wasn't deeply offensive. Refuse to go back to see if there is one. Is the search for content really this desparate?

yes

didn't expect 'Broward' to be an actual place

I take it you've never seen Cops.

Sinead O'Conner

Straight up, this is a pity bang.

disgusting

http://www.collegemagazine.com/files/image/chiddy%20bang.jpg

Straight up, this is a chitty bang.

Bro-ward Ho!

how did they manage to hold off on stretching this out to five pages

I pity anyone who lives in Broward and Palm Beach so it may explain his attitude.

After five seconds of reflection I am pretty sure I know what you actually mean but, given the article, my first thought was "Is Alfred saying, 'poor Broward dudes, all they have is big people'?????????"

Nice ironical thread title btw

http://flavorwire.com/283266/a-selection-of-the-most-genuinely-terrifying-people-in-hip-hop

i would read that but no way i'm giving that shit 10 clickthrus

tho i did notice the r. kelly tag, which makes a lot of sense, seeing as he's a rapper who often threatens violence

It’s a reminder of the fact that when hip hop abandons its tiresome obsession with idiot materialism and posturing, it can still sound vital and relevant.

ffs

the combination thread title + first post is the funniest thing ive seen on ilx in ages. cheers Whiney http://i.imgur.com/5YkiA.gif

Listicle idea: Fat black women that Ric Delgado would fuck, but Tom Hawking is scared of

$40, which is almost worse than not even being paid at all

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM

it is semi-disappointing that "listicle" is a portmanteau of "list" and "article" when most examples end up coming across as a portmanteau of "list" and "testicle"

portmanteau of Liszt and icicle

Aw DJP you should have replaced the second 'list' with 'lick'

the writer of the BROward piece is, a cursory facebook search reveals, not actually 14 or even 20 but THIRTY-ONE :O

I really shouldn't wish death or violence on anyone, but...

Anyone that’s known me for any period of time has probably had a chance to read The Whispers. If you haven’t… well, maybe you should question the closeness of our friendship (which I’m guessing must be close since you’re reading this blog).

I started writing The Whispers in 2000, after one of many over-dramatic crush on girl friend situation. Let me tell you, there is no better inspiration than getting rejected by a crush (especially a crush that had been cultivated for years) and listening to Henry Rollins’ Hard Volume.

The Whispers came out of me faster than anything else I’d written at the time, which by that point entailed research papers and bad poetry. Then for the next twelve years I’ve been revising and rewriting it.

I lost count when the revisions reached twenty, and that was probably a couple of years ago. I’ve worked and molded this story, never feeling quite comfortable with it, especially when I got negative feedback from friends and other writers.

I would put the story down periodically, let it breathe, then pick it up years later. Then, this past year, I picked it up again. In the last two or three years I have been writing every single day. And this time things were different. Normally, when I would work on the 4,300 word short story, I would find myself lost at times. I would lose track of the point I was making, where it fit in the context of the story, and even agonizing about single word changes.

This time I totally kicked it’s ass.

the typo kicked your ass

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2011/09/five_very_masturbatory_music_videos_1980s_1990s.php

I started writing The Whispers in 2000, after one of many over-dramatic crush on girl friend situation.

ARRRGH

the combination thread title + first post is the funniest thing ive seen on ilx in ages

lol yes

The Whispers came out of me faster than anything else

this is total BS but

Sarcasm doesn't always come across in writing, and it certainly didn't in this post. I get why commenters below called this "the most insulting thing on the Internet," and that's why it has been removed. New Times regrets the offense we've caused and hopes you'll stick with us in our next attempt at sarcasm. -- Eric Barton

hahaha wait, their retraction basically states "sorry for offending you but that was sarcastic; we'd never sleep with these fat women"????????????

New Times regrets the offense we've caused

Isn't offense their whole business model?

three cheers to commenter "very good article"

(that was me)

nice work

i'm not sure which is worse: the editor implying that no male at the broward new time would dare fuck a fat woman or that he thinks we can't take 3 minutes and look at ric delgado's archive to find a host of other, non-"sarcastic" posts

unless ric cordero never actually beat it to "rump shaker", but i don't think that's possible

er, ric delgado

"loles" would be rueful, almost glum lols IMO

Bob Lole

Bob Dololo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b28HqlCBYgs

i am the way into the lolorous city

Ric is a good friend of mine and I'll be the first to say he has an odd sense of humor. I've known him long enough to know that he really means no harm. He's not Louis CK or Lenny Bruce. If he was he would be touring the country with offensive humor. What bothers me though is how the editor is getting no crap for this. Ric is just a freelance writer. It's not like he runs the paper. Obviously the editor thought it was a decent article or he wouldn't of published it. But I get the politics behind it. And I know you were an editor and your still a freelance writer so you get it. You had to write this article and I understand. I also understand why people got offended. Ironically through out of all this destruction it has made Ric one of the most popular freelance writers in Miami. Everybody would say for the wrong reasons but the fame is there either way. I mean he has an editor from Spin writing about him. He can actually turn this into an obnoxious, personality that's completely sarcastic and people will listen just to get offended. Because when it comes down to it the majority of this country wants to hear fart and dick jokes. I personally don't dig it but I'm the minority. There's ignorance everywhere. That's just the world we live in. It doesn't make it okay but it's reality.

"Signed, Ric"

he's popular because Whiney mentioned him!

This dude has a bright future ahead of him as a regular guest-star on Bob & Tom

this dude has a bright future ahead of him as an occasionally revived thread

Hahaha

the Larry the Cable Guy of music critics

http://www.sickchirpse.com/2012/05/07/when-will-florence-welch-just-fuck-off/

Ah this now has its own thread: Music Criticism 2012, UK Division: "Instead of a review of this performer's concert, here are 50 insulting remarks about her appearance."

its on some UK fake-Vice site instead of a legit source so wgaf about some blogger imo

oh yes I was forgetting that the original article in this thread was published in that eminent music crit bible, the blogs section of the Broward Palm Beach New Times.

worth it to push the thread onto the first page or two of google results for his name imo

xp that is at least a newspaper of some description aiui?

hey great music journalism is great music journalism!

So

When are winners gonna be announced for this

As soon as Editor Ric Delgado publishes the winners' names.

it's really a question of which recent village voice articles are the most deserving

"winners"

sigh

i'm actually not referring to the scandal chronicled in this thread - more to "BEST NEW MUSIC 2012"

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/11/is_taylor_swift_being_taken_too_seriously/

so many things wrong in that article that the answer to the question doesn't end up seeming particularly important or interesting.

Still no announcement, huh?

I'm sure I won't make it anyway, should stop caring

Oh, come on!

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RIP BMW?

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Daphne Carr and Tobias Carroll

aka Feedback Press

aka pubishers of the Best Music Writing series (and more)

No news in ages. Where did the Kickstarter money go?

http://gigaom.com/2013/08/22/kickstarter-kept-the-best-american-music-writing-alive-but-17k-later-wheres-the-book/

so shoddy

there's a bit more on this thread:

Best Music Writing 2012

this is the actual story:

http://noisey.vice.com/en_au/blog/what-ever-happened-to-the-best-music-writing-series

seriously does NO ONE know her irl? surely one of the many contacts of an established NYC-based editor/publisher does? is there NO crossover between the occupy crew she runs with now and people who want to know where the $17k went?

apparently not.

she's like where's waldo on facebook. she's everywhere. all kinds of occupy places. i feel bad about this. i like daphne.

Is it weird that I'm still at the point where I don't even care where my money went, i just want this to happen?

If she can't be bothered to say anything beyond "no comment" then I doubt there's much anyone else can do. maybe the threat of legal action would focus her mind.

its a little late for it to happen. how many publishers would want to retroactively put out a book that was timed to be released the way those books were.

i like daphne.

do you know her irl!

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I figured. Hopefully anther publisher picks up the series at some point, but that's probably unlikely to happen either after all this.

*another

there are literally a billion better ways to defend your peer from accusations of fraud than "but she's cool and you have a shitty job", lol @ Whiney

i only see her at the EMP conferences. she's always so nice. she's really smart. sometimes things happen. i don't claim to understand.

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curious what proportion of donors to the kickstarter were music writers or involved in the music journalism industry in some way

well this escalated slowly
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/update-best-music-writing-2012-has-officially-been-canceled

and yet faster than you realize

Best Music Writing 2012

that's multiple threads for you