MIA

i don't really know anything about perp but i've recently started noticing how fucking dull and lame his reviews are

His bubble world consists of bands he thinks are ZOMGFANTASTIC and everything else ranges from bad to terrible, and when someone dare shit on one of his favorites he reacts like a big baby. At least, this is the way it was for many years. But even more, he's prone to be super-duper-hypercritical if an artist is doing something the wrong way, as his idea of what/how they should be doing what they do is always far -superior-.

"i don't feel really strongly about Perp either way, but it's interesting how he's the only former ilx regular of minor renown who really seems to get trashed the way he does besides like Momus"

Didn't Ott used to post here?

haha I was gonna say

pretty sure NSylv posted for a little bit too

man the ott pfork review of this album would have been g.o.a.t.

jf who are some of his zomg bands?

lol ott. he at least earned his hated on mostly status by trolling ilx threads, and sylvester had a genuine media scandal hanging over his head. perp is like, target on his head for being guilty of the same shit as a ton of people here.

His bubble world consists of bands he thinks are ZOMGFANTASTIC and everything else ranges from bad to terrible, and when someone dare shit on one of his favorites he reacts like a big baby. At least, this is the way it was for many years. But even more, he's prone to be super-duper-hypercritical if an artist is doing something the wrong way, as his idea of what/how they should be doing what they do is always far -superior-.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, July 12, 2010 3:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like seriously, this describes half the critics out there.

dorian killed it

Prob true, but I've known Perpetua for 12 years and I've seen him not mature ONE BIT in this regard.

Fluxblog is an MP3 blog created and updated by Matthew Perpetua. The blog began in 2002, and began to host MP3 posts at the end of that year. Fluxblog has featured in many publications and programs in the mainstream media including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, The Guardian, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Newsweek. Rapper Obie Trice gave a "shout out" to Fluxblog in his album track "Nobody Got The Z-Man's Back", with the lines "Fluxblog man/ Fuck Pogman"; the story made the cover of the New York Times.

great days

What I don't get is how can someone appreciate Sleigh Bells, then turn around and say Maya is "too noisy".

― Soft Sad Tecmo Bowl (Spinspin Sugah), Monday, July 12, 2010 11:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

the perception of noisiness doesn't necessarily correlate to loudness, shrillness or sound density - or to anything, really. it's subjective, having as much to with our taste in sound as anything else. to my ears, treats does sound noisy, but not in an unpleasant way. sleigh bells make the noise aspects work with their music and even as music. the /\/\/\Y/\ tracks i've heard fail to do this. as a result, they sound unpleasantly or pointlessly noisy.

and i don't see anything so incredibly awful about the perpetua review. it's pretty ordinary, really. the facts are in order, the language is clear, the arguments reasonably well supported. not great, but hardly worth the effort it might take to clown it.

both albums sound like shit

i like maya a lot better tho

Am I wrong to be bothered by the description on Fluxblog?

"Fluxblog is the very first MP3 Blog. It was founded by me, Matthew Perpetua, in 2002."

It seems a pretty dubious claim to make that it was the "very first", I seem to remember lots of blogs hosting mp3s all popping up around the same time.

it wasn't the first obviously

should i link to the dom post about him or

amazing review dorian

It's always been a groundless claim. A better wording would be "Fluxblog was the very first 'MP3 Blog' to promote itself as such."

should i link to the dom post about him or

dom is pretty much as awful as m-perp (and in many of the same ways too)

so that's a "no, please don't"

being fat?

i was thinking more along the "super-unpleasant human beings" lines but i guess that too

btw as to the question about who cared about the MIA lynn hirschberg thing--those stories did pretty well for us at big gawks, which is admittedly not a huge audience but certainly bigger than the ilx/music crit circles. MIA is like entry-level hipster music now i think so a lot of w'burg/portland types give a shit about her

iirc matt and dom have the same taste in girls

and food too i guess

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fluxblog&oldid=152966923

is it possible to write a non custosian joke about flagpole sitta

dom's wiki vandalization is beyond words to me

Being an advocate of Greek cookery, Perpetua opened the Taverna Di Flux in Croydon, London in 2007. The most popular dish on the menu is "Flagpole Pitta", a pitta bread filled with stuffed vine leaves, homous, and perinaise.

this is seriously the funniest thing ever

dom's wiki vandalization is beyond words to me

― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 12, 2010 9:20 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm

Is "Perpetua" his real last name?

The unsurprising Pitchfork and Perpetua "not thrilled" by review caveat available below (sorry if already posted). I think that's the central problem with this review. The best kickings are always administered gleefully.

I wrote a negative review of M.I.A.’s new album /\/\/\Y/\ for Pitchfork. I hope that people realize that it didn’t give me — or pretty much no one else at the publication — a thrill to do so, since we all wanted this record to be great like her earlier work. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been as disappointed in a new record by an artist I really like. I’m worried now that she’ll become the new Tricky, and end up disappearing into a rabbit hole of paranoia and solipsism after making two landmark albums that pushed at the boundaries of both pop and hip hop. I believe that she can do better, and hope that she will in the future.

http://perpetua.tumblr.com/post/802010303/me-and-m-i-a

lol he still sounds like dorians hypothetical teacher

I don't have a problem with Perpetua - dude does tend to foreground his prejudices and assumptions in his reviews (see the recent Scissor Sisters review, for ex.) which obviously can push people's buttons, but it isn't unusual in the critical world. Xgau's the same way, for example.

plus he's always loved my band and been good to us so I can't complain haha

(truffle fries joke goes here)

you're friered

and food too i guess

― max, Monday, July 12, 2010 8:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol at the Wiki entry, sorry.

not to get all 'in my world of young ppl' but c'mon dude. she may not be lady gaga but she's pretty famous/popular.

― some dude, Monday, July 12, 2010 2:37 PM (6 hours ago) Bookm

??? im not sure what was weird abt that phrase! it basically just means 'anecdotal ppl in their 20s i know'??

perp's review seemed a bit weird but so does dorian's "come on this is so much MEATIER than like a christina aguilera record!!!" & nicely inconsistent of lex to not observe that 1

not to get all 'in my world of young ppl' but c'mon dude. she may not be lady gaga but she's pretty famous/popular.

A handful of the college kids at the paper -- excluding the radio station guys, of course -- know her because of "Paper Planes"; she's certainly not argued about like Gaga is.

m perpetua's constant bagging on rap for being soooo traditionalist is really eye rolly to me but i dont dislike his taste any more than 90% of ilm so

A handful of the college kids at the paper -- excluding the radio station guys, of course -- know her because of "Paper Planes"; she's certainly not argued about like Gaga is.

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 12, 2010 9:54 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats .... what somedude was saying? actually a lot of folks know MIA regardless of paper planes if u know anyone in college basically

I guess we're arguing about what constitutes "popularity," which becomes complicated when Gaga enters the conversation. What I meant by my experience: Gaga's clothes, casual remarks, and longform TV interviews are discussed as much if not more than her songs. M.I.A. meanwhile is like Jason Derulo ("Oh, she did that song a couple of years ago from the Seth Rogen movie").

No one in the group I see cares about terrorism, Diplo, Tamil Tigers, truffles, etc.

It's like Madonna vs. Nu Shooz in 1986.

thats true w/ a general audience -- thats exactly what somedude was saying, shes certainly not gaga level -- but MIA def has a much bigger cult audience than effin nu shooz