OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

going by that quoted line I was surprised that wasn't av club tbh

it's true, though, netflix was indeed a different frontier. for instance, it was once a weed-smoking elmo avatar named qwikster

Do we have a thread for awful interviews?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.88faafb5-1c3a-11e6-8352-477931e7a37d

Who needs to do research when you have that Apple cash I guess.

awful interviews have been Ebro's niche for a long time

I mean its Interview magazine so maybe it doesn't count but

TINA WEYMOUTH: Yeah, there is a very mature approach in Dreamland, where Natalie sings, "there's no use crying." I thought, "Wow, if only our Middle Eastern brethren knew that," that the wailing and the smashing of teeth is not the way to go, but rather dreaming, and out of dreams comes a much better reality.

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/wild-belle-dreamland#_

hmm http://www.alternativenation.net/the-importance-of-music-in-entertainment/

We are all the NPR intern now:
www.mtv.com/news/2888213/de-la-soul-listening/

http://www.mtv.com/news/2888213/de-la-soul-listening/

oh man whiney i totally made myself stop and not post that...

it just seemed like a shooting fish in an internet barrel kinda thing. like with those old pitch things on pitchfork. and then people would tell me that the person who wrote it is only 15 and has started a non-profit meals on wheels group and isn't a real music writer or something and that i'm mean.

but it does totally suck.

I can be pretty hard to please with certain musical aesthetics, and rap music prior to ‘92 — the year I was born, of course — is something I’ve struggled with a lot in my life.

Never has a sentence so disqualified a music writer from deserving my attention

jesus fucking christ there are timestamps?

that is fucking dire

Perhaps I’ll give De La Soul another listen someday. I can feel the roots of music I should enjoy, but it just didn’t connect today. Right now, I’m gonna go listen to ATC’s eurodance classic “Around the World” and keep praying for the weekend.

i think i'm gonna listen to 3 feet high just in solidarity and time stamp my own responses with bagels

jesus fucking christ there are timestamps?

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, June 3, 2016 1:42 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Of course there are; how else would we be able to pinpoint exactly where the bagel is in his digestive tract?

same author

http://www.mtv.com/news/2879987/why-ill-never-leave-drake/

I feel like we've reached un-peak music writing. Who is good that's left in the game?

finally found a DN i'm willing to wear

poor guy is gonna get older and better (i hope) and this is gonna be very embarrassing for him.

you guys, it's TOO easy.

it's like picking up a high school newspaper and saying get a load of THIS guy...

Counterpoint: you guys are old and weird and that piece is more or less on the money

yes it really engages with the album and has interesting things to say about generational displacement

He engages with the album by saying it's a chore to listen to in 2016, which it is

it's like picking up a high school newspaper and saying get a load of THIS guy...

Yeah, but it's also like if RS or somesuch published a piece in 1969 along the lines of "Count Basie?! Whadda cornball! His trumpets sound like ducks!"

i hear you scott but it's MTV News... and we heard it first.

He engages with the album by saying it's a chore to listen to in 2016, which it is

it is absolutely more of a chore than views, i think we're saying the same thing. see you at loud yoga

counterpoint to your counterpoint: i'm listening to it now and 3 feet high and rising sounds fucking fresh in the new millennium

prince paul rules, next gen media drools

wow i can't believe this young person likes young people music and not old fogey music

The J0rdan S. listening club

still waiting on his Spawn OST liveblog :(

it is absolutely more of a chore than views,

wait what?

he should really take my six-week course in generational disingenuous music writing is what he should do. a hundred bucks a week and the first week is free!

TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE IT OFF TAKE IT OFF

wait what?

*winks*

first lesson is free right here: pretend like you've never even HEARD of de la soul! and duh make fun of their names.

the rest you'll have to pay for.

lol david turner gets so much shit itt

atc's "all around the world" is a classic tho

Hey everyone, don't ignore this one either. Tim Sommer defends Mike Love's honor.

http://observer.com/2016/06/for-the-love-of-mike-love-its-time-to-destroy-the-legend-of-brian-wilson/

I barely give a fuck who Mike Love has his picture taken with, or what political candidates he supports, or how he may stumble in public speeches; he is a gentle and kind man whose heart is in the right damn place, and he supports many worthwhile causes related to the environment, conservation, and spiritual enlightenment. Have any of you ever met Ric Ocasek or Todd Rundgren, or even, for that matter, the great Lou Reed? Have you ever talked to a waitress or stewardess who had to deal with Paul Simon?

I have met a pile of so-called pop stars, and in terms of being a decent man with a decent heart, Mike Love is pretty goddamn high on the “good guy” list. Most of you just hate him because he’s in a band called the Beach Boys without Brian Wilson. You think that the fact that he keeps the Beach Boys going is somehow denigrating of or defiant of the great achievements of that band, but it’s just the opposite; Mike Love has kept the Beach Boys, a vital American institution, alive and working in the face of great odds and even greater derision.

Go see the current touring version of the Beach Boys.

not to taste-shame but i am not much older than the author and i can think of few lighter, more enjoyable listens than 3 feet high. i know rap has mutated way away from the space this record occupies but i think it deserves a way less disingenuous and distracted approach, especially from someone who like...writes criticism, and who already likes tribe?????

ofc i blame the editors as much if not more

otoh I've heard more than once from students who don't get "old school rap."

who was it that shared the anecdote about students cracking up at "Fuck Tha Police"??

hey there were plenty of people in the late 80's who couldn't listen to any pre-1986 rap. it was dinosaur music.

otoh I've heard more than once from students who don't get "old school rap."

i mean took me forever to wrap my head about enter the wu tang in college but i did and i managed to never write a piece about it

the editors are basically holding this guy up as a pinata for potential clicks, it's more than a bit shameful
https://twitter.com/MTVNews/status/738743779734228992
^ he retweeted this!

"Fuck Tha Police" is hilarious though

spoonie gee would be like a young louis armstrong. de la would be like webster/blanton-era duke. the kids want ornette now. or maybe they want wynton, i dunno...