https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RkI-B2JWSZI/hqdefault.jpg
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
yeah dan i definitely saw parallels between "the discourse" then and now.
― maura, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
linked not for the Newsweek writer but for Rove's stunning blurb http://www.newsweek.com/national-sleep-well-beast-karl-rove-662307
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Saturday, 9 September 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
max landis.....hello
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 15 September 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
(for real, though, if I were in CRJ's crew I'd be investing more heavily in personal security)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 15 September 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
if you visit the website he set up for this, it shows him Jared Leto Joker-style in a mental hospital. this is as far as i made it.
im hoping he turned himself in to save us all the trouble.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 September 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
I blame poptimism for this.
― jmm, Friday, 15 September 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
i blame capitalism
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 15 September 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
I blame masculinity
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 15 September 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
this level of self-indulgence is indistinguishable from psychosis
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 15 September 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
katherine otm
― maura, Sunday, 17 September 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
http://stars.topix.com/slideshow/18800
― Treeship, Sunday, 17 September 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
don't click that by the way... it's one of those weird slideshows where you need to load a whole separate page to proceed to the next slide. the list is "27 Hilariously Lame Artists that Hipsters Love" and the author says that Modest Mouse is a "pale imitation of the Talking Heads" and that Radiohead's only good song is "Creep."
To be honest, the writing isn't as bad as I expected.
― Treeship, Sunday, 17 September 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
I mean, it's very bad, but still.
― Treeship, Sunday, 17 September 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
First, Aphex Twin is not a band, it's the stage name of Irishman Richard David James. He rose to fame with a song called "Windowlicker," which should tell you all you need to know about this ambient techno artist's off-putting vibe.
see how many mistakes you can spot
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 September 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
really into how mad the writer of that is about the very concept of solo musicians and also how despite their remit they can't bring themselves to be snarky about the Lumineers
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 17 September 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
this is bad:
There’s a reason a rock god like Springsteen might keep the prompter out of sight of his adoring fans. Because if they saw it, would they wonder: Is he singing from the heart? Or is it just from the McScroll?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/bruce-springsteen-uses-teleprompter-in-performances-does-it-matter/2012/03/30/gIQAQTXGlS_story.html?tid=a_inl
― niels, Thursday, 21 September 2017 05:27 (six years ago) link
Is this the early 90s?
― how's life, Thursday, 21 September 2017 11:07 (six years ago) link
Don't know about you but I'm forever racking my heart trying to remember the lyrics to songs.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 21 September 2017 11:29 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKRHuKiUQAEL2SW.png:small
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 September 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
there's a bit in one of the lyttle lytton writeups about this kind of sweeping pat journalistic rimshot flourish (earlier this year: "The award show was a veritable orgy — not of sex, but of cultural appropriation") and it's bad enough when it's just about some college football team, not actual people actually dying
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
holy shit that is tacky
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
yikes
― maura, Thursday, 21 September 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
bol serves up this hot piece of shit that is the first time i can honestly say, yes, this might be the worst piece of music writing ever. vile.
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/byroncrawford/issues/why-i-support-xxxtentacion-74240
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 September 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
i have no idea how or why you would read a Byron Crawford article if you're not attuned to his schtick
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 22 September 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
"I can't *believe* this thing I saw on an account that I follow that has done exactly this type of thing for 10 years"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 22 September 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
well I actually saw Craig Jenkins tweeting taking shots about some article that mentioned his writing and was like hmm I wonder what this is and the article was that bol piece. am I grounded?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 September 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
Def on goon cru probation
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 22 September 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
damn :(
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 September 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/what-sincerity-looks-like.html?mcubz=3&_r=0
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
"Swift is a phenomenally talented and beautiful songwriter who has lost touch with herself and seems to have been swallowed by the ethos of the Trump era."
david brooks retire bitch
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
yeah that seems willfully ignorant"some ordinary-looking backup singers behind him"
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
"It’s interesting how corporate the video looks and the song sounds. It’s been a long time since the Sex Pistols burst on the scene."
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
EVER FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BEEN CHEATED???
Back in the 1950s, sincerity seemed treacly and boring, and authenticity, in the form of, say, Johnny Cash, seemed daring and new. But now rebellious authenticity is the familiar corporate success formula, and sincerity, like Chance the Rapper’s, is practically revolutionary.
https://media.giphy.com/media/26BRq84rhISRcFVUQ/giphy.gif
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
A person has a soul, which is what Chance is worrying about. A brand has a reputation, which is the title of Swift’s next album. A person has private dignity. A brand is a creation for an audience.
so was chance acting like a person or a brand when his management went after a MTV News writer
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
lol SERIOUSLY
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
maybe he was just acting like a man... the most authentic way to act of all
he was certainly not acting as a rapper
― President Keyes, Friday, 29 September 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
Sincerity is the new authenticity.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
Aw, that takes me back. ILM circa 2005: fake is the new real / real is the new fake
― cornballio (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
I hope we get another "Mean" out of this.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I mean we kind of already have
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 29 September 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41RG9XYD33L._SX305_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
as in the rapper obv
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 September 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
ah, i hated that book so much 20 years ago—remember when he and wendy shalit were being pitched as the ivy leaguers who TOLD IT LIKE IT WAS (i.e. that america should be more conservative)? misty, watercolored, etc.
― maura, Friday, 29 September 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
dude got woke. it turns out that women make great music. if you really listen. while you are eating breakfast.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/magazine/should-women-make-their-own-pop-music-canon.html?referer
THIS IS NOT THE WORST MUSIC WRITING. just didn't know where else to put it.
kinda would have respected him more if he had gone first person here. the marathon listening session he describes at the beginning seems like penance or something:
"We take female musicians just seriously enough not to notice that we don’t actually take them seriously enough."
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
lol at Wesley Morris suddenly getting woke
― President Keyes, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
We should start new thread for this and it's ilk called 'OK, is this the wokest piece of music writing ever?'
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
Also, what New York does he live in where he doesn't hear women. I hear "Hips Don't Lie" all the time.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link