Village Voice's F2K

that would be brill

(NB no britishers actually say brill)

So am I to take it that Robbie doesn't write? Or writes reasonably well, or something?

This hatred seems really kinda one sided.

"Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake."
"Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake."
"Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake."
"Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake."
"Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake."
"Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake."
"Sorry, Lancey-pants, you’re no Justin Timberlake."

i can't wait for their article on the strokes

that last thing lex posted is just a relentless slagging and then somehow ends up with three vacuous compliments, leaving a kind of mental indigestion

it's as if becky was talking to you at a party and ashlee herself showed up right before the last sentence so she had to shift gears really fast

compare & contrast the two posts though - posted by the same author, two days apart.

post 1: ashlee simpson is going back to acting - just as well, it's all she's good at and she can't sing
post 2: OMG ashlee simpson's acting sucks LOL, she should stick to singing (and being barefoot & pregnant etc)

So am I to take it that Robbie doesn't write? Or writes reasonably well, or something?

This hatred seems really kinda one sided.

― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:48 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark

ohhhh boy

robbie popped up before becky & so all robbie researching & clowning happened already

i can't wait for their article on the strokes
--trampa va jamon (M@tt He1ges0n)

who???

Robbie seems to be taking notes, even if he's not acknowledging it. He's bad, but seems to be fighting his inclination to be worse now.

xpost

i don't want to ruin it for you, but dude...rock is BACK in a big way

girls love guys w/ guitars iirc

i was actually hating on robbie much more until yesterday - becky's offences are way more egregious today

lex yes that is some pretty classic glenda slagg style shit

(you won't get that reference i fear - here is a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenda_Slagg )

masonic boom that's true but t.b.f. robbie's more recent posts have been a lot less glaringly egregious by my lights (not that they are actually interesting)

the fact that robbie's old blog apparently gained a huge audience and enough traction for him to interview several big name pop stars and parlay a "career" out of horrifies me so very deeply

Robbie just seems like a news/pr funnel with no defined opinions of his own, even on his own blog. Since he's starting from a pretty neutral place, it's possible he could improve. Becky's hill to climb is much steeper, coming from a gossip blogging background. And actually, she's shown ZERO inclination that she's ever going to change.

Tracer: what is that GIF from?

lol @ "Ray of Gob" shoutout - "Shannon Stone" rulez hardest

i can't wait for their article on the strokes

"The Strokes, a band that initially rose to fame in the New York independent music scene in 2001, are all set to release the first album of their career after lead singer Julius Casablanca's ill-fitting solo career -- which included an oft-discussed appearance on the popular late night show hosted by Conan O'Brian that the befreckled redhead took over from enduring late-night presence Jay Leno -- started to chafe the New Yorker's grungy (but kinda hott!) style."

"The record is said to return to the bands roots -- and speaking of roots, any chance we'll see more of those highlights even after Julius's turn in the spotlight has faded? ;)"

U r good at this

You should've gone after the job, dabug... and then trojan horsed that shit!

hey can someone point me to the becky brags abt her sex life thing so i don't have to actually read this blog?

the lamest part of this all is that they're not even going to host the rest of F2K. it rubs me as dismissive and mean-spirited, like children not wanting to play with some dorky clumsy kid just cause he spilled some milk on his shirt. just a weirdly hard-assed way of getting the WE DON'T DO THIS TYPE OF SHIT ANYMORE OK point across.

i thought there was a considerableish market for smart music talk on the internet, i thought sites like this could surivive on atleast pitchfork fallout.

i'm willing to bet that not hosting the rest of F2K was maura/whiney's choice

http://www.madatoms.com/site/blog/honest-to-blog-i-still-like-juno-dammit

Juno and Ugg boots are awesome!

yeah samosa that is what has been bugging me too but I haven't been able to articulate it. i guess its just the recession hitting the 'net. the pie is much smaller now so catering to a niche cannot be as lucrative. it is a short term strategy, though, that usually fails in the long term because the niche is usually much more loyal. never mind the quality of the writing on idolator now - I doubt the people whom that writing appeals to are going to have the same relationship to the blog now that those of us who read idolator before had with it then.

there was this ska band i loved as a youngster who desperately overhauled their style to the then-megapopular emo pop thing as a last-chance grab for fame. they got their album produced by some bigshot and were picked up by some label, and then when the album dropped nobody noticed them and they broke up like a few months later. i predict a similar future for nu-idolator; i doubt anyone will even notice it in an already endless sea of perez hiltons, and it'll disappear forever.

that ska band...

was me.

i dont know what that means

Nicole I really, really didn't need to read that link.

i'm willing to bet that not hosting the rest of F2K was maura/whiney's choice

― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:23 PM (Yesterday)

And a very good choice indeed.

(Thanks to the people who said helpful things way back upthread.)

nice imaginary abbreviation for thespian in that one

No, I've seen "thesp" before. But mostly in Variety and Page Six and the like. Remember, this is a woman who used to blog for E!

Is it because she's a thespian?

apparently you don't have to register to comment on Idolator anymore.

I think the whole becky thing is probably news because they've finally unearthed a music blogger that's had sex before.

http://jokes.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/roast/flavorflav/videos/v6/roastflav_show_ross_v6.jpg

oh whiny no you di'int

twitterers get crazy laid, though

I just became the mayor of vagina on @foursquare

the fact that robbie's old blog apparently gained a huge audience and enough traction for him to interview several big name pop stars and parlay a "career" out of horrifies me so very deeply

― lex pretend, Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

realizing that a vacuous douchebag can do relatively well in the world of pop music infotainment hit me like a slap in the face too

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/6e/77/ba1a024128a08638a8ec2010.L.jpg

lol

Hey y'all. I've decided to quit ILX to spend time on other things. I'm really glad I got to talk to a lot of you here, and I wish you all the best. Rock out. :-)

See you in a week, homie.

dying over here

kshighway = the susan boyle of ilx

another sock bites the dust