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

What the fuck, that is the worst obit I've ever read. My composition students could write better.

it shows how a legacy can indeed be an important part of ones memory of you.

I'm losing my Mind over this bizarre Jump Cut:

If we review his career, we know that he started with Be Bop. His work with Art Blakey was “pace-setting.” But having mastered that he moved on to form his own group, Weather Report. During his stint with his group, his “quest” took him to Jazz Fusion.

Yeah, nothing really happening for ol' Wayne between 1964 and 1970...

lol

Now Mr. Shorter hadn’t just come lately to creating.

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thread has a winner xps

it’s so bad also because it’s obvious the writer hasn’t even heard of shorter before, but arrogantly and patronizingly tried be all like “I can learn about this person and give a totally informed thoughtful overview”

I wouldn't necessarily conclude that--she's a jazz club owner, has probably heard Shorter before. This seems like the only thing she's written for Jazz Times? Maybe not a professional writer.

ah ok, the high concept pontificating taking precedence over information confused me

He was recruited for Painting, but was convinced to switch to the music side of the program.

I guess Shorter totally blew them away at the Painting Combine (did a still life in 4.65) but the Music Team head coach really had designs on growing the Clarinet Line.

Laughing out loud...

just because I was triggered by the beauty of

those “hep Cats”

Jazz Times magazine changing owners, editor, and dropping staff for this... ugh

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Just read the entirety of that Shorter obit on the original site (quoting it here misses the use of bolding to add emphasis, alongside her curious ideas about capitalization and scare quotes). This is like lock thread worthy. Truly and literally the worst piece of music writing ever, at least that has crossed my eyes.

my posts on ilx are also a quest to form an expression of eternity.

isn't that in the ilx user agreement?

"all posts must be part of a quest to form an expression of eternity."

it's one of the main reasons i haven't been banned yet iirc.

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(but yes, that obit seems kind of "light" coming from "JAZZ TIMES")

I'm assuming the BeBop Channel Corporation is a CIA front

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front corporation for shredder's hench-warthog

Just interminable

The occasional misspellings of his hero’s name (“Flannagan”) are a perfect touch.

Mike Adams is a High Times Staff writer hailing from the darkest depths of the Armpit of America—Southern Indiana.

oh, it gets darker, Mike

look, nothing against the writer on this, who very sensibly left their name off this, but the fact that an article about the "4 Most Essential Led Zeppelin Albums" even exists is really depressing to me.

https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/best-led-zeppelin-albums/

i just wanted to see if lincoln olivetti was involved with the 1983 album by "Brasil Show" (the answer is "no" as far as i can tell)

It looks like the article's author is "Led Zeppelin"

I would love to read something critical of boygenius not by Steve Hyden or like something I would have wrote on my Myspace blog when I was in high school: https://constantlyhating.substack.com/p/boygenius-is-insipid-music

“No wonder Phoebe Bridgers has so many goddamn stans on Twitter, this is indie music for the pop brain. And you can’t have it both ways! “

Gotta keep em seperated

If anything I wish it were more poppy!

(but I’m on the opposite end of the Greater Millennial timeline, which this writer seems to think is an important point for music reception, so what do I know)

I listened to about half the boygenius album this morning and it's not really for me, but it's fine for what it is. But there's a Slate piece (which I haven't read) with a headline calling them "Rock's Greatest Supergroup" and...just...fuck you. The editor who came up with that should be beaten with a bag of oranges.

Isn't that by the guy who wrote the Celine Dion book?

Yes, and he's a smart guy and a good writer who I like, which is why I don't blame him for the headline. I blame the all-too-typical idiocy of Slate.

the backlash to this record feels primarily like a backlash to phoebe bridgers, incidentally it also doesn’t feel rooted in the quality of her music but by some ostensible thing she represents

i don’t love the record as much as i wanted to but it’s because my expectations were probably off—these are three songwriters i want to hear write together and there’s only 1-2 instances of that on the record, otherwise these feel like siloed off songs that they brought to each other, which is fine, they’re just very distinct songwriters and thus i feel invited to compare what one offers vs. what another doesn’t. julien baker is prob offering up the best indie rock i’ve heard in a decade, dacus is the best lyricist of the three easy but i prefer when her sound has a little more oomph (historian, an album where EVERY song makes me cry and i don’t even know why), and bridgers is kinda like… in the center of both of these styles without ever seeming to unite them? there that’s my considered takedown of the boygenius record, a record i like

yeah, saw a Twitter thread yesterday that called Phoebe "cringe", which seems p emblematic of the backlash

whoops, no, the guy called her "corny"

Ryan Adams truthers getting their revenge

i wish schoop was better at hating lol, he loves his contrarian hot take pieces but this one especially is so lazy and lacking in substance

the backlash to this record feels primarily like a backlash to phoebe bridgers, incidentally it also doesn’t feel rooted in the quality of her music but by some ostensible thing she represents

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, April 1, 2023 5:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

typical twitter music discourse. instead of criticizing the music, imagine an annoying person who might like that music and criticize that fake person

I’m not familiar with “Schoop” but for someone whose blog URL is “constantlyhating”, that piece was bad at its job and he seems bad at “hating”

I would have loved reading someone whose shtick is taking down hyped up artists maybe a decade ago but now this dude just seems extremely tiresome

mostly i just know him from tumblr like a decade ago well before he'd started seriously writing about music. he had a slightly less negative renaissance dunk piece last year too

lazy dunks like this are good at getting attention though, both from people who support the inevitable backlash against the dunk's target but also from people annoyed at how lazy it is

I can fathom where "indie music for pop fans" is coming from, there's a smoothness to some of Bridgers work that I find offputting... but that was also true of The Postal Service almost 20 years ago and you just have to accept that "indie" hasn't meant anything for American audiences for 30 years so who cares.

"mostly i just know him from tumblr like a decade ago well before he'd started seriously writing about music."

lmao seems about right

sorry, can't get over how half-assed this backlash is

It’s kind of sad now that white women singer/songwriters are all called like Puny Tyrant and make songs about how having a pebble in your shoe reminds you of being ghosted and all of their fans lie about how that feeling is so real it makes them want to jump off a balcony

— Ben (@perma___ben) April 2, 2023

back in my day, backlashes etc blah blah

Music fans always lying about liking music

“Puny Tyrant”(?)

The way some of those guys write about these female musicians certainly says a lot more about themselves than their targets

between constantly hating and this dude, their hearts are clearly not in it!

Making up a guy to be mad at vs. making up a woman singer-songwriter to be mad at

kind of sad how these guys think pointing out the whiteness of white women makes their gender coded sneering (and their own whiteness, where applicable) less obvious somehow?