pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

dying @ jamie dos equis

whole thing is worth it for that joke

thank u whiney

totally messed up my potential Yuengthug joke

wait who was this

I cannot, for the life of me, remember the guy's name.

I just remember running into him a lot, as he was always hangingi around my buddy's record store and special ordering small run craft beers from the liquor store where down the street from my house and I was always drinking.

lmao i figured i might be still aware of well-known reno hipsters despite it being almost seven years since i left

the biggest little hipsters in the world

Interested to hear this artist's music based on the descriptions but the interview is painful:

http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/10017-jay-soms-hard-working-dream-pop/

"It’s cool to hear you talk about both Phil Elverum and Carly Rae.

I love hip-hop, too. I love watching interviews with Tupac. He’s very eloquent and he’s respectful."

Haven't we all got past the fact that people can have diverse musical tastes in 2017?

“Pepsi was way ahead of the curve,” now says Taylor, a professor of social science and musicology at UCLA and the author of several books on music and capitalism.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1431-how-pepsi-used-pop-music-to-build-an-empire/

at first i picked this out cos i've been listening to Negativland's "Dispepsi" this week. which is not mentioned at all in this article, of course. it would probably run counter to the article's central focus, promoting a former Pepsi executive's burgeoning career writing about music marketing. choke on these final sentences:

Pepsi also recently opened the Kola House in Manhattan, a club and cocktail lounge that serves as a “modern hub for consumers to share social and immersive experiences that were anchored in the exploration of our cola’s artisanal craft and flavor.” LCD Soundsystem played its opening in September. In front of an invite-only crowd with Swizz Beats and JB Smoove, playing with no logos behind them are anything, you could barely tell it was put on by Pepsi. In a way, it was transcendent.

In 2015, young R&B phenom Jamal Lyon inked a major endorsement deal with Pepsi. He got his own primetime spot directed by “Empire” creator Lee Daniels, joining the ranks of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Britney Spears, Kanye West, David Bowie, Papa Roach, and more who’ve done marquee ad campaigns for Pepsi. The commercial features Lyon on his way to perform a show, slamming a Pepsi on a New York subway. The train’s all pop-locking and mugging with hyperrealistic joy, alive with the Pepsi Generation once again.

Of course, this didn’t really happen. Or, it did happen, but technically not in real life. Such is the genius of the Pepsi-Cola Company and its marketing department, who placed this meta ad inside the a three-episode arc on season two of Fox’s “Empire.” The fictional Jamal Lyon (played by Jussie Smollett) landing an endorsement deal with Pepsi in a fake-but-real commercial (yes, directed by Lee Daniels) is perhaps the most self-aware and self-fulfilling campaign in the history of Pepsi’s unscrupulous advertising department.

Pepsi's so cool, they don't even use logos!

god fuck pfork so hard

xp

they spend like 3 paragraphs talking about MJ and don't even mention that his hair caught on fire! that's the only thing slightly interesting and memorable about that whole venture! fuck this

well this is about 10 years late http://pitchfork.com/features/article/10018-does-college-radio-even-matter-anymore/

http://pitchfork.com/features/article/10018-does-pitchfork-even-matter-anymore/

two writers covered this breaking news item

NEWS

by Sheldon Pearce and Jazz Monroe

Watch Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich Play Amerie, Dilla, More in Rag & Bone DJ Sets

Thom also spun Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” and sang along

"Michael Jackson, Madonna, Britney Spears, Kanye West, David Bowie, Papa Roach, and more"

This is pretty great list-making.

http://pitchfork.com/news/71537-father-john-misty-i-ride-for-nickelback/
^^there is no need to click

he's right though, "How You Remind Me" bangs

Nickelback hate is reflexive, received wisdom. kind of classist, too

he's right though, "How You Remind Me" bangs

― flappy bird, Saturday, February 11, 2017 6:12 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. this is my fav challop to drop, too. i almost got kicked out of a house party once for it

Nickelback hate is reflexive, received wisdom. kind of classist, too

lol no

imo an aversion to nicklelback is one cultivated by years of omnipresent nickelback music, where their hits are fairly interchangeable, and were a grim reminder of commercial forces needing something that qualified as "new rock music" to play having a very shallow well

they are grating and boring and kinda suck.

i mean all you have to do is hear them to know you don't want to hear them. no need for conspiracies.

you'd be better off listening to collective soul. or papa roach. holy shit, papa roach are still a band!!??

They are bringing 1999 back though. kudos! or 2001? some year like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtVU--O29oY

Nickelback hate is reflexive, received wisdom. kind of classist, too

This is so true.

wow, so are papa roach!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9z4DWB7Iy8

saying it's classist to hate nickleback kinda reminds me of when people would say it was classist to diss trump voters until we found out the median salary of his voters was like ~70k

lol yeah I don't think nickelback fans are of any specific economic class

i don't hate that one song. it could be any one of a hundred bands though. foo fighters. collective soul. it's catchy. plus they are canadian so they can rhyme sorry with story.

(also, it's not that their songs are terrible. it's very professional pop product even if the songs aren't that exciting and kinda mundane and if pop country people did them they would sound fine on the radio. it's everything else. his voice. the guitar sound. the sound of everything really. it's a terrible sound. production-wise. though obviously a ubiquitous pro sound. almost every one of the million christian rock bands out there have a variation on that terrible sound.)

Lol otm

hated them in high school. my classmates who liked them had way more money than my family, lived in houses and such.

Nickelback hate is reflexive, received wisdom. kind of classist, too

― flappy bird, Saturday, February 11, 2017 6:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the "Nickleback sucks" meme that lazily took over FB, maybe, but I hated Nickleback when "How You Remind Me" came out #oghater.

no idea where "classist" comes into it.

we should all own up to when we first started hating Nickleback, the exact month and year

From an impeccable journalistic source:

9 Canadian MPs who have declared their love for Nickelback

no later than August 2001

fall 2001 after "How You Remind Me" was played in heavy rotation on MTV for ~6 months straight. + whatever other singles came from that record. it was like that, Chop Suey!, IZZO, Weapon of Choice, Hash Pipe, Get Ur Freak On, Stay Together for the Kids, and Clint Eastwood.

First time i heard nickelback i

Wanted my nickel back

OIC how you remind me of what they really are

The last photo in that buzzfeed article is painful to look at

tbh I hate Kings of Leon way more than NIckleback

Some soulless alternative rock station here was advertising a "no Nickelback, no Bieber, no Gaga" guarantee. I hated that ad more than Nickelback.

The annoying thing about Nickelback is that ppl on FB who like time tons of stuff just as shitty use them as a meme to feel superior

yeah that got old fast

Ha, Live 88.5? I've seen the "Bieber-free" and "Miley-free" guarantees. I didn't know that Nickelback had become verboten to modern rock stations. That's interesting.
2xp

Lol, apparently it was a tremendously successful marketing campaign, according to this blogger.

I saw Nickelback live near the early peak of their popularity. I didn't like them but tried to go in with an open mind. The first three songs or so were fine, as far as that stuff goes, but then they stopped playing and wasted time firing t-shirts out into the crowd with canons like at a sporting event. The show never recovered, and the show devolved further and further into boring cliches ("we have never played to a crowd as awesome as Chicago, you guys rock, we're going to order 10,000 pizzas and PARTY WITH YOU!"). So is hating Nickelback a class thing? Probably, the same way hating NASCAR is a class thing, but that's not going to stop me from hating NASCAR and NASCAR culture. I'd say the burden is on them (NASCAR, Nickelback, hell, Trump supporters) to demonstrate they are more than just some dubious low/no-class monolith, not me.

xp That's the one. I may have screamed at my TV a couple times at the list of bands they will play after the "No Nickelback" declaration.