I understand why artists that get tons of good reviews tend to pay attention to and respond to critics more, but it still amazes me when someone who gets an 80% avg on Metacritic gets all crybaby about the small minority that doesn't give them rave reviews.
― some dude, Friday, 29 January 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/6011062923
― ksh, Friday, 29 January 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
can't imagine what he was like when he got an A- at columbia
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
don't think Ezra's being a "crybaby." the other guy was being a dick, and Ezra reacted. he should've just ignored the dude tho
― ksh, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno, a writer friend of mine says it takes about 20 positive comments to balance one negative one in his mind. i think it's just sort of a natural response. you put something out there, you want people to like it. i'm sure some people are better than others at shrugging off the haters, but i understand people taking it all personally. otoh it is sort of part of the deal. to be fair to ezra, his defensiveness is reasonable-sounding and not especially embarrassing.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 January 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm speaking more generally of his defensive tone in stuff like the Guardian interview (xpost)
― some dude, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
if every article about me referred to me as a wasp when i was jewish i'd get pretty fucking sick of that
― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― max, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, seriously. a different topic for a different thread, but most Jews I know have a very ambiguous relationship to their own whiteness, let alone to this structure of WASPness.
― Mordy, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
huh - these guys play up the WASP-signifiers nonstop. just cause they aren't *technically* WASPs doesn't mean that that word has no place in a discussion of them.
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
thats uhhhh not the point
― max, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
what's uhhhh the point then
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i doubt dude is mad because WASP-ness is "in a discussion."
i get the sense that he is a little bit annoyed that they are described, frequently, as some kind of WASP bad.
― max, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
see the distinction?
they've done everything in their power to come off as a WASP band, so if they're annoyed that people call them a WASP band, well, maybe they should stop wearing polo shirts and singing about cape cod.
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
He keeps patting himself on the back for using upper-class signifiers that people use to leap to conclusions about them or their music, so that's the price of the game he's playing tbh. (xpost)
― some dude, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
they've done everything in their power to come off as a WASP band,
Jews don't wear Izod?
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway I came up with this fascinating google search result when researching this:
http://www.strmfrnt.org/forum/showthread.php?p=7726207
MOD NOTE: linking to this site is an incredibly stupid idea that is likely to get you tempbanned. Stop it.
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
oh jesus fucking christ
― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hwE0slNd3Y
― da croupier, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
hey dudes wasn't there always a rule about googleproofing st0rmfr0nt because you don't want them to see track backs and no one wanted an invasion of those dudes?
― Dr. Goon Medicine Woman (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 29 January 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
um if there was a mod can feel free to googleproof that
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
lol honestly was not sure if it's an innocent mistake or an attempted thread-nuke
― da croupier, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
frankly I think their views would be v. interesting in this thread
+ maybe the top 50 of 2009 thread, where race will play an imp. factor in the arguments over who was right
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
no
― Dr. Goon Medicine Woman (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 29 January 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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anyways, back to the discussion--i think the issue with this is that WASPness is barely even a living culture these days and critics are kinda ignorant about how they throw it around w/r/t this band. so when some reviewer is like "hey wow look at these white WASP kids who went to Columbia" i don't see what is wrong w/ezra gently correcting peoples dumb preconceived notions.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
iatee quit while you're behind
^^^ referring to me being jewish I suppose
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
when I think columbia I think rich jewish kids, so yeah I guess WASP=columbia is a lazy and wrong association but that might not have anything to do with vampire weekend
― iatee, Friday, 29 January 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf is the "balaclava" thing a reference to?
― ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it's what ezra calls his penis
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
― ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, January 29, 2010 2:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
lol @ u
― Goon's Anatomy (J0rdan S.), Friday, 29 January 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
its a reference to search engine "google"
― max, Friday, 29 January 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i've been wanting to ask that the whole time but was too embarrassed cuz everyone seemed to know what it was...basically a fancy ski mask, so google sez i guess. or a city in the ukraine
― Dr. Goon Medicine Woman (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
balaclava horchata not even the most wtf lyric on the record:
when I was 17/I had wrists like steel
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
ew ezra
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
haha yeah that lyric...
― Goon's Anatomy (J0rdan S.), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
another stellar post over at nabisco's tumblr, fyi
― ksh, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
basically a fancy ski mask, so google sez i guess. or a city in the ukraine
Both:
The name "balaclava" comes from the town of Balaklava, near Sevastopol in Crimea, Ukraine. During the Crimean War, knitted balaclavas were sent over to the British troops to help protect them from the bitter cold weather. They are traditionally knitted from wool, and can be rolled up into a hat to cover just the crown of the head.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i posted that more for the suggestion that rappers never caught any flak for homophobic lyrics, and certainly none on the level of the huge protests at his balaclava lyric. plus getting stick for privilege and responding without irony, "what about the fucking blacks?"
hey m@tt, the city, also famous battle, charge of light brigade, tennyson all that
xpost
― zvookster, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I think "balaclava" is British slang. Like "anorak." That's the only place I'd ever heard it used prior to VW.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
also a balaclava is NAGL
thx y'all i have now officially learned something today.
also that other thing is a mexican beverage!
― i get mines the fast way, the balaclava way (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel the "we're not WASPS" is a convenient dodge for them. people throwing around that term are lazy (and technically wrong), but it is also clearly just being used as a term to stand-in in for rich & privileged, i don't think most people using it are like "wow, wonder if ezra is presbyterian or episcopalian" so pointing out "hey, dudes i'm jewish" isn't really addressing what people are finding annoying.
― velko, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
horchata is a delicious, delicious drink. jesus christ, i wish i had one right now. if you're ever in hermosa beach, ca, go to La Penita for a godly horchata, friends.
― tylerw, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
they are the well-educated sons of well-off professionals who got in to good schools, and there, got to see a whole other level of crazy privilege and wealth, far above themselves. there's a lot of intra-elite observation/discomfort/sniping going on in these records. what they 'are' and what they are looking at aren't exactly the same thing, class-wise
― goole, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
that would be interesting if it was interesting.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, i'm sure there's some kind of smart thing to say about all that that hasn't been said by all the writers before them that have sort of observed the same things. but asserting that that's what they're doing doesn't mean they're doing it well.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 January 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
no i guess it doesn't?
― goole, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
upper middle-class anxiety in the presence of old money
― velko, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link