pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

"Breaking: Arcade Fire covers Go Cubs Go"

wu-tang clan, duh

the thing is.. when i was in high school (yes i am an adult) i would have snickered at many "random celeb + hip band" articles and shared them with my friends (yes i had friends) during lunch.. because i was really into music and using musical matters as a source of self-identification/conversation material..

Each weekend, Pitchfork posts a long-read review of an album not previously covered in our archives: The Sunday Review (link in bio). Which albums would you like to see covered in The Sunday Review in 2017? Comment below.

Remember how anti-commenting P4K were? Now they're crowdsourcing reviews through comments.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMeK-ntBx73/

gonna side with evan on this one, does everyone really think that famous indie music site pitchforkmedia has actually been an avclub-style general entertainment site for the past 15 years? and fwiw i honestly don't care at all that they started chasing tv clicks post-CN takeover, it hasn't made the site better or worse or anything. just seems clear that Evan's right--they usually try to shoehorn some sort of music connection into their TV stories, even when it's laughably minor.

Also this:

think we can all agree that the news section has always been dumb

― tylerw, Monday, November 7, 2016 9:41 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is otm, it's usually just reprinted press releases, right?

Everyone's news section is reprinted/retyped press releases, from Rolling Stone on down.

I'm worried all these stories about Bill Murray and going to push important things like what cover songs Arcade Fire played in concert last week off the main page

If you read the Chainsmokers review without the sneering tone it sounds like a good record? Especially strange that the review includes this:

" and they themselves are not on trial—the music they make is"

And then the review goes on to praise how catchy and well-crafted the music is. And then gives it 3.5 stars.

idgi

also patrick bateman had good taste in music

Chainsmokers have better hair though

Kendrick Lamar and Shaq Go Soap Shopping in New American Express Commercial: Watch

I think it's clear their transition to General Interest Millennial Male has already begun. Between all the Stranger Things and Twin Peaks content, and now stuff like this:

http://pitchfork.com/news/69785-watch-dave-chappelle-resurrect-chappelles-show-characters-for-a-parody-of-the-walking-dead/
http://pitchfork.com/news/69756-dave-chappelle-snl-monologue-weve-actually-elected-an-internet-troll-as-our-president-watch/
http://pitchfork.com/news/69786-watch-dave-chappelle-and-chris-rocks-election-night-snl-sketch/

Which makes sense, since Conde needs them to scale. I just don't understand why The Dissolve had to go... they'll be doing film reviews again soon enough.

lol https://twitter.com/pitchfork/status/796397594016645120

the dissolve had to go because it couldn't scale, which is because pitchfork decided to start a site strictly about film even tho it was clear that the dominant form of culture in america was television

news is different. any blog post post can "scale" inside 24 hours i.e. get a bunch of people to click on it

thought this revive would be about the big news about El-P retiring his red ballcap

meanwhile this is music-related because ... kanye?

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7573677/democrat-president-2020-election-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren

Thats a trade magazine

http://pitchfork.com/news/69866-drake-invites-espns-doris-burke-to-dinner-in-cringeworthy-courtside-interview-watch/

http://pitchfork.com/news/69866-drake-is-gonna-fuck

lol

Over the course of our sprawling phone conversation, it became clear to me why artists—like Santigold, Kylie Minogue, and Charli XCX, with whom he co-wrote half of True Romance—might be attracted to Raisen. He is eccentric and electric, prone to spirited stream-of-consciousness monologues on topics such as the conspiracy of radio, ’70s krautrock, and the virtues of golfing. Discussing methods he’s used in recording, he mentions Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” deck, “power manifestation,” and the Self-Realization Fellowship center near his home in L.A. In fact, Raisen came to collaborate with Gordon only after he and the singer-songwriter Lawrence Rothman experimented with chanting her name. “As you can see,” Raisen says, “I’m super heavy on energy.” (That Raisen and I are both natives of Massapequa, N.Y. was but another cosmic force at work.)

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1371-wtf-is-pop-justin-raisen-on-producing-the-future/

made it one and a half paragraphs into this before it turned into abject self-parody. fuck music.

energies are important tho

Do you resent it when people call you a pop producer?

No, I just get a kick out of it. But also, it's 2016. What the fuck is pop, man? I have no clue. Is pop trap? Trap is pop. The Rihanna record is pop. Pop is not even pop anymore. Pop is now experimental. Experimental is now pop.

every sentence i read i'm throwing up in my mouth

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/King_MS/Students%20Projects/Animation_html/gif/drseusshopani.gif

lol both the article and the subject are pretty hilarious. i'd kick it w/ that dude for a night

I guess I'm a rebel, but it makes me cringe even watching the VMAs.

That was the sentence that made me really regret not giving up as soon as I saw the goofy-ass photo. Also, I tried listening to the Kim Gordon song and it was shit.

So the Miranda Lambert review seems like a breaking of their policy to not cover any Country music that might end up on being played on country radio.

I mean they took this to the point of not reviewing a single Taylor Swift album

just to give it a mediocre numerical score that is in no way reflective of the content of the review (it deserves a BNM imo)

http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9988-the-20-best-pop-and-rb-albums-of-2016/?page=2

Why are they splitting these lists by genre this year? (ok it's because of clicks)

I mean, I like that they are giving some shine to some albums that didn't make the Top 50, but I imagine a lot of the albums on these lists are going to make the Top 50. Are they just going to re-use the blurbs?

I'd imagine Solange, Anderson Paak, Blood Orange, Rihanna, a couple others will end up on the big list.

everybody else is doing genre lists, so why can't we?

maybe they wanted to create a space for readers afraid of encountering too many pictures of guys with beards

everybody else is doing genre lists, so why can't we?

I would say probably because it waters down the impact of the outlets that have been doing it longer, thus devaluing the supposed importance of doing it at all, but what do I know?

whiney there was no substance to that cranberries ref

don't say the phrase "genre lists" or whiney is gonna kool aid man thru your computer screen with a spear in his hand

not sure why they even bothered to put the word pop in that list since the only album on there that impacted the wider pop world in any way was ariana grande

Buzz Aldrin Being Treated by a Doctor Named David Bowie

i can't even

ads are out of control

year-end features are bad

that is all

i enjoyed the intro to the top 20 rock list

their dance choices, as ever, are incredibly boring

i'm really glad that pitchfork are doing genre lists this year. it's refreshing for a publication to focus on neglected genre picks that would get weeded out of a larger list. glad they took this step forwrad, hope other publications do the same in their wake

their dance choices, as ever, are incredibly boring

idk the moodymann and kornel kovacs are great, and i'm excited to figure out whatever this jubilee record is. plus omar s is on it!

I don't know why people keep calling it a "dance" album when it's not and it's not trying to be, but I like this stuff so obviously I must be terrible

also, I don't *know* this but the genre lists would seem to be the natural result of the recent redesign/etc separating reviews and the like by genre, no?

also the koze comp has like, three of my favorite songs of the year on it

i love moodymann but even he doesn't scream youthful energy of the dancefloor, omar-s is always great but the new one i sp much more of the same, jubilee can be a fun dj but the album is boring watered-down dancehall, and those are indeed the best of a boring list made by people who don't seem to be invested in actually dancing in clubs in 2016

(never heard of kornel kovacs)

xps

ie it's the cumulative impact of all those albums as The Best Of Dance rather than whether a couple of them are in fact good or not