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and by "not having any critical distance" i mean "writes like a 15-year-old"

music bloggers in churning out useless shit shocker

music bloggers in churning out useless shit shocker

15-year-olds across the country are offended by that comparison, J

That is even more appalling. I could see some lowly young buzznet intern who didn't know any better because all they'd been trained to do is give blowjobs, but a GROWN MAN writing like this? For shame.

we're all just spoiled because ILM always has been and still is populated by some of the best music critics working today. outside of our citadel, the situation is dire!

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lol kiss ass

^ game looks awesome btw

fuck it: Robbie is better than any of the fools posting here, but don't tell anyone outside of this thread I said so.

maybe rock criticism is dead now, dead via the boiling oil of the internet

Via Twitter:

katesilver

"Livebloggin': 'Kris Allen' " is a thing of beauty. I removed the bookmark but I can't look away. "Robbie" was the drummer for Gay Dad.

so much morbid can't-look-away offended fascination right now.

ok, so, going by the blog roll on "chart rigger", there seems to be...a whole community of bloggers that this robbie is part of? so i guess there's a ready-made audience for...whatever this is? this disturbs me. there are people out there who think there's a point to his inane witterings?

and a great deal of curiosity too, i want to know how it's possible that he's thrived doing what he does!

i can't remember the last time so many current idolator posts garnered SO many posts. which says...something.

people be rubberneckin.

So wait, you're NOT going to explain this?: THIS MAN IS IN HIS THIRTIES

lol @ this interview - http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/11/maura_johnston.php

H: In short, as we say in this business, "sad frown-y face."

yeah, totally.

i can't bring myself to pile on. i'm just hoping maura has something lined up.

So wait, you're NOT going to explain this?: THIS MAN IS IN HIS THIRTIES

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:46 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark

someone who is that old & does not have any critical distance is sufficiently creepy

― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:25 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and by "not having any critical distance" i mean "writes like a 15-year-old"

― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:25 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

man, this economy.

xp

haha i don't think they're letting my comments go through.

time to create a new account, non?

post them here?

the sick thing is that they're guaranteed crazy traffic for at least a week because of how batshit this all is

Yeah, I have tried to stop posting there.

But the urge to insult is hard to fight.

i actually do feel becky and robbie's pain. the gig really is an incredible brain-drain, so i can understand why they've decided they've taken the rain man approach to blogging out of the gate.

so much morbid can't-look-away offended fascination right now.

ok, so, going by the blog roll on "chart rigger", there seems to be...a whole community of bloggers that this robbie is part of? so i guess there's a ready-made audience for...whatever this is? this disturbs me. there are people out there who think there's a point to his inane witterings?

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:42 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

Read that R as an N as was about to come and be like OH HELL NO before I re-read it.

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What the FUCK

chant rigger?

google tells me:

Robbie Daw dishes out pop music sass daily on his site Chart Rigger.

standards for "pop music sass" apparently at a hitherto unknown low, then. i could literally walk into the street right now and grab a random teenager who would give me better "pop music sass" than that. and they would probably not use the phrase "pop music sass" as a bonus.

http://instinctmagazine.com/images/stories/thewatercooler/mwood/me_johnny__robbie2.jpg

Robbie is at right.

Blerg.
http://instinctmagazine.com/images/stories/thewatercooler/mwood/me_johnny__robbie2.jpg

oh he's British? that explains everything

yeah, cos who the fuck wants a blog of rigging chants

f that dude, we have some great writers. this dude just aint one of them. (neither am i :) )

i can't believe he calls himself a journalist ;_;

xp he's from LA

he does seem oddly into really bad british pop, but we're not taking the blame for this one

yeah, cos who the fuck wants a blog of rigging chants

love that shit tbh

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Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish Ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain;
For we've received orders for to sail for old England,
But we hope in a short time to see you again.

If memory serves, Buzznet has been steadily letting people go here in LA so I wonder if this was some sort of throwaway. My dead pool prediction is that nu-Idolator won't last until Spring.

He seems like a total Perez wannabe, I was just speculating/guessing upthread that Buzznet was going to scrape the barrel that way but it turns out they really are going for the lowest common denominator.

hey, c'mon y'all, mocking people for their personal appearance when the work itself is fuel enough is bad zing sportsmanship.

signed,
homely guy who can string a sentence together

Sasha Frere-Jones:
Unfollow of the year: @idolator. I had no idea it could go so badly.

If memory serves, Buzznet has been steadily letting people go here in LA so I wonder if this was some sort of throwaway. My dead pool prediction is that nu-Idolator won't last until Spring.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:04 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i think buzznet is kind of sinking--i imagine these two are super-cheap, last-ditch hires in a kind of what-the-hell approach to seeing if they can keep the site viable

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