pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

that isn't remotely close to what I meant, come the fuck on

the main thing i took from this thread is lex is pro-groping

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, December 9, 2016 10:05 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesus Christ dude...

lmao

this experimental music playlist is extremely woke and incredibly boring

not even sure most of this is really all that experimental? it's certainly not making me think 'whoa, i've not heard much like this before!'

would endorse anna meredith as the compositions are dynamic and arresting, maybe elysia crampton is doing some cool stuff too and tt is telling me to persist with amnesia scanner (and there MIGHT be something to that jefre chap) but really 'pablum' is the word for most of this stuff, it's a bland morass.

i guess you take what you can from this stuff but it really is a disappointing show

Oh haha wait here's Matmos :D

Oh there's something to Moor Mother too now. SALVAGING SOMETHING AT THE DEATH

i'll be honest with you, with something named "the out door" i expect a column dedicated to exploring the underwhelming final records by massively popular bands.

would read that column actually

the main thing i took from this thread is lex is pro-groping

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, December 9, 2016 10:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

?????

if you're an unknown, ranking #100 on pitchfork's top 100 is orders of magnitude more valuable than ranking, say, #32

because you're the first thing that people read, and in a position where people still have the attention span to read the entry instead of skimming over it

just getting a lil deep about lil peep, sorry

Lil Peep becoming a breakout star in 2017 would be a very interesting experience. I would bring out the popcorn for that

ok what is with this pandora sponsorship thing tbh

"sponsorship is evil" stuff aside.....pandora? really?

i honestly thought pitchfork and apple music were cushy so this is really weird to me, but maybe im totally off base

sweet #1 choice

Chance and Kanye have like ten appearances each on there

And there should've been more: Fade, Finish Line/Drown, Same Drugs, Father Stretch My Hands pt 1... great year for both of them, really

http://pitchfork.com/news/70394-adventure-time-islands-miniseries-announced/

so is this the first one that has nothing to do with music and doesn't even try to?

Wait, what? I'm so confused. Why is there a news story about a children's TV show on there?

hipster millennials love adventure time

Golden Globe nominees story was worse

Pandora's about to roll out its on-demanding streaming service. First step is targeting the Whitney fans.

> ok what is with this pandora sponsorship thing tbh

U GUYS

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/70351/c22ba646.jpg

tfw when your site advocates for marginalized voices all year but boss asks you to play nice with the internet's biggest gathering place of unrepentant racists, creep-shot enthusiasts and kid-touchers

tfw when your site advocates for marginalized voices all year

i've said this before and i'll say it again

the more performatively woke an outlet, the more likely they are to treat (ALSO PAY) their inexperienced POC and LGBT writers badly

Wut? Surely you're not suggesting they pay POC and LGBT writers less? I know the whole enterprise is crashing downhill, but that seems highly unlikely to me.

no, and i'm not talking about pitchfork

I'm lost now

performatively woke

stealing this phrase because it nails the dangerous tendency to treat social justice as a trend (by definition: inevitably displaced), which is why I wonder how many Bandcamp proceeds will be getting donated to progressive causes this time next year. Then again, I'm a cynic

"performative" as synonym for "inauthentic" really spread quickly

it's not really a synonym imo

that didn't seem implied to me

u can be inauthentic without being performative. imo "performative" speaks more to a style of social media behavior than the actual ideas that behavior is promoting. it's the personalized version of a fluff piece PR ad from Exxon about how they care about the environment and the future.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I guess I tend to have negative associations with the word 'performative' in this context

how can media be 'performatively' woke rather than just woke? all media is performance

When they are making a big deal out of it more than usual? Everything is relative.

but i mean... it's just words on a screen

Some you're saying it's only performative if you're saying it while waving your hands around in the air or something?

So*

but i mean... it's just words on a screen

*keanu voice* whoa

it's just one of those irritating buzzwords that becomes ubiquitous overnight, already way overused/misused

yeah it's become deplorable in its usage

Yes, very problematic

bacon

there's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes, who the CEOs are, how the company is structured, how people are hired, how employees are managed, how content is cut and edited, etc.

or yeah, you could just stop and look at the final product/performance, words on a screen and think that's good enough.

surely there are....degrees of performance

some websites just love to perform
you know the type loud as a motorbike
but wouldn't bust a dominant paradigm in a wokefight

BOOM!

it's just one of those irritating buzzwords that becomes ubiquitous overnight, already way overused/misused

― flappy bird, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of like... woke