Village Voice's F2K

My feelings about these new writers/corporate shills can be summed up in one picture:

http://fourfour.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b8c369e20120a5e3fb2e970b-800wi

That gif is amazing.

wtf @ all of this injustice fuck the world

HOOS what is your opinion of nu-Idolator?

its like gawker but more shallow

wtf @ all of this injustice fuck the world

― Nanobots: HOOSTEEND (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:58 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

basically

hahahaahahah

I'd prefer if everyone just waybacked back to maura.com and forgot the entire lamentable episode, yes.

― cee-oh-tee-tee, Monday, October 26, 2009 2:38 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

http://www.electricpig.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/jonathan-ross-mac.jpg

This thread got kinda confusing... I thought it was merely about a list of crappy 00s songs reviewed in Maura's/Whiney's blog, but apparently there's a whole lot of behind-the-scenes politics going on I know nothing about.

So, apparently the list will not be completed now? I guess I should unbookmark this thread then.

Maura left/was possibly sacked from Idolator halfway through the list. No-one knows really knows if the list will continue or what Maura is doing next and we are hoping that when Whiney's ban is over he might be able to clear it up. Lastly, the people who took over Idolator halfway through the fun bad song list suck and are ruining a once great website. This was the thread about Idolator being regularly bumped and ironically it is about stuff being crap, so it seems appropriate to discuss it here.

Does that clear it up?

I guess so. I just thought this "Idolator" was merely a Maura's or Whiney's blog, I didn't know it was a professional site and that people got paid for writing this stuff. I guess you wouldn't want to complete the list for free if you got paid for it previously.

you thought maura was posting that volume of content on a daily basis for free?

Yeah people never waste loads of time on the internet.

I don't know what else Maura posted. All I saw was a list, updated once a a day, and written by two people. Doesn't seem like an awful amount of owrk.

work

by allyzay at 1:52 pm

I always wondered what would happen if Perez Hilton and a lolcat had a baby! Now I know! I will treasure this day for a while.

the alicia keys album artwork they "cover" isn't even real - did they just take internet rumours at face value there? oh dear.

@aliciakeys Heads up, the album cover that is going around is not my real album cover. Official Album cover is coming soon.....;-) RT
about 13 hours ago from web

http://twitter.com/#search?q=idolator

Just for easy reference.

so I looked at this again today and it's turned into a bunch of bisexual foot-fetish bots retweeting inane Idolator headlines

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

buzznet will be happy, ~more traffic~

i'm still inordinately pissed off by robbie and becky - the idea that they've parlayed their awful-in-every-way writing into something resembling a journalistic career. what on earth is their point/appeal? it's gossipy without any actual gossip, the idea that camply going "ooh" every so often is the same thing as being funny or having a personality

still have that Plies song stuck in my head guys

Of all the things wrong with this, I think the worst is that she calls Kanye "Kan."

I don't mind helping bump up their initial traffic as long as we keep getting some good zings in before the inevitable comments exodus.

No, wait, calling Shakira "Shaks" is worse.

ok this is intolerable but seriously WHAT IS THE APPEAL, TO ANYONE, OF WRITING LIKE THIS????? i don't get it.

Girl does speak the truth, last time I went to a Kanye West concert, I saw every type of person under the sun there - black, white, gay, straight, old, young, and everything in between. Total Benneton ad.

- is this the inverse of "i don't care if you're black, white, purple..."?
- FFS SPELL BENETTON RIGHT, JESUS CHRIST

"What was the crowd like at the Kanye concert?"

"Total Benetton ad."

"What the fuck is wrong with you?"

How would that be the inverse? Isn't it the same?

"oh it was a benetton ad. lots of old *and* young people."

remember that benetton ad with the old chaps and the babies?

For some reason my comment about not understand what is creepy about dreadlocks is still "awaiting moderation".

http://idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/pod_250.jpg

No, wait, calling Shakira "Shaks" is worse.

Yep. That was the exact moment that I decided its not even worth admiring the trainwreck anymore. Idoltar bookmark gone.

If they were just dumb and oblivious, making fun of them in the comments would be amusing. But now that the creepy racism and misogyny is coming out, I don't want to give their work any traffic.

still have that Plies song stuck in my head guys

― some dude, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:04 AM Bookmark

ha, I was going to post it here, but you beat me to the punch

The Idolator shift is analogous to Dane Cook renaming himself "George Carlin" after George Carlin died.

reel it in a bit

looool

But I wonder if even that would have some defenders, "come on guys it's only been a week since Dane renamed himself 'George Carlin', let's give him some time to settle in before we expect quality humor".

yeah I had a Sarah Palin comparison running through my head yesterday about how these 2 seem to have no idea what they signed up for but a little voice told me "reel it in a bit"

Still laughing at all of Johnny/brasstax's comments.

I think I'm done checking the site though. They're just going to continue churning out this shit until everyone who's still there leaves.

I still laugh every time I think of that launch "manifesto." Idolator: totally repped it.

oh, the laughters out loud

i wonder what he thinks of Pitchfork. O_O

I bet he's got some interesting stories, this one, if we ask him really nicely to share

omg a parody of Precious is the role I was born to play

please tell me that's a tweet and not an excerpt from something on Idolator

it's a tweet

Which maybe she assumes is private, but...

No, it's from Becky's twitter.

Pretty much 100% confirmed it's her now, because one of her friends tweeted "Joshsod @bexmachine these people really miss maura....whoever the heck that is. lots of jerks!"

OMG, what is wrong with this woman? Her tweets read like an American who once read Bridget Jones and didn't realise it was a parody, not a style guide.

btw the biggest impact this is all having on me is reminding me why I never wanted to be on Twitter in the first place, yikes

Old Becky Bain blog here: http://poshnbex.blogspot.com/