KREAYSHAWN - GUCCI GUCCI

i literally have no idea how "I DONT GET KREAYSHAWN ALSO IM 28" was a successful pitch in the NYT, let alone something that warrants commissioning a graphic.

was it the NYT that published the p***f**k r*v***s r*v***s article?

who the fuck is their commissioning editor and, like, why?

this is at least a more convincing pitch than that was

women laughing alone with salad vs. gucci gucci

i kept scanning for something worth hanging onto in that article

nothing came

"I don't understand kids today and I'm 28. Does this mean something?"

kids get older faster in the future imo

(Brushes hands, moves on.)

eh, kids stay kids longer these days than in the past

or, as some dude I ran into in a bar who was celebrating his 25th birthday and seemed to have a more small-town mindset implied, you should feel like a failure if you're not married with a kid by 25

Pretty grim piece, but I liked this line: "it basically sounds like what someone who hates rap might imagine all rap music sounds like"...

i really like edith zimmerman! i think shes very funny!

i always enjoy ganging up on non-ilxors who write about music but i forgot how defensive i feel when its a non-ilxor whose work i enjoy

i really liked that GQ profile of that chris evans (?) that she wrote but this piece just wasn't very good

anyway this piece does not really play to EZs strengths and she does have horrible taste in music but i recommend her blog "the hair pin"!

oh god, that Chris Evans profile

heh that piece on chris evans had some of the same problems. we are maybe reaching the point where "writing well for the web" really actually doesnt translate into "writing well in print"?

but all told i think shes one of the best/funniest bloggers in the game so h8rs to the left

I don't think we're hating on her as a person, just the fact that this article is horrible

Don't worry, we'll love you even if you write some horrible articles, max. But we'll let you know.

im not really getting heated! just maybe trying to add some 'context'

btw I have seen and enjoy the hairpin.

this article is hilarious

I couldn't make it past the first sentence

so instead I watched a guy get fucked to death by a horse

wait it's funny?

Ooh, I want to crush that name flat between two good, old, important books and eat the resulting paste

she talks like a Questionable Content character

i'm 28 btw

Didn't like that article much but love E Zimm, she's great.

this article is hilarious

― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what part?

its not even about the song itself, that piece is just like. "oooh someone is so 'cool'" like its trying to be cooler than something cool by pretending not to care about being cool?

^ solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the spirit of ilm

what part?

the part where she has a mini existential crisis about feeling old because she doesn't like Kreayshawn

i guess that seems like a weird example to me, feel like that song could have come out any time in the past decade & been as big -- its a pretty standard joint

I think focusing on the treatment of Kreayshawn in this article is to fundamentally misunderstand/misread it; it is self-absorbed navel-gazing to a hilarious degree (which I would have thought would have been emphasized by the omg I'm old crisis being caused by... Kreayshawn, who is mostly inoffensive/ignorable in a world that contains Tyler)

yeah i mean i guess ive had that exact same idea tho before but it deserves a couple seconds of conversation when you're at a bar w/ your friends, not extensive think-piece writing

also it just seems late on the backlash train

i am genuinely dispirited by this thread

we just aren't that into designer labels

let alone something that warrants commissioning a graphic.

the gauld makes it all worth it tbh

Tyler songs are not going to be played at the bar when you're they're with friends. "Gucci Gucci" will.

* when you're there

What the hell has happened to me

When I was 8 or 9, my grandmother took me to McDonald’s for lunch, and the toy that came with the Happy Meal was a cricket that chirped when you spun its wings. (A “Mulan”-related toy, if that matters.)

wait, this girl's 21 or so? talk about feeling old...

wait...the article says she's 28

mulan came out in '98 which meant she was 14 or 15 at least.

sorry, but inaccurate happy meal stories are inexcusable journalism.

she's 28. the lead is a glaring error that she acknowledged on her twitter.

christ if i'd known premature cranky old ladyisms could have been my entrance into the times i would have been putting this gender-ambiguous name to work for me.

not gonna judge a teen for ordering Happy Meals, I used to get those in college

how on earth is that enough food for a grown man

you get two of them

also means you get to double up on the toys!

man remember when mcdonalds had those nasty ass "fajitas"? i used to consume my weight in those.

it did save me having to go to mcdonalds for fries and taco bell for "mexican" in order to make a complete meal.