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So it turns out there are a heck of a lot of one-hit wonders!

According to an analysis of every artist that's appeared on Billboard's Hot 100/Top 100 chart between 1955 and today, about half of the artists that appeared on the chart never reappeared. That means that almost half of pop successes are one-hit wonders! This is pretty sad for a huge group of people. But maybe when they die, they go to a heaven where it's always the week their song was on the chart and they feel awesome.

DAVID SHAPIRO: What's your middle name?

WAKA FLOCKA FLAME: Why?

SHAPIRO: I looked at your Wikipedia page and it says your name is "Juaquin Bertholimule Malphurs," and Bertholimule sounds like a middle name so unconventional that it, you know, didn't sound real.

FLAME: (laughs) What's it say? Bertholimule? My middle name is James.

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/waka-flocka-flame-is-a-product#_

i thought his middle name was Flocka

I guess Waka James Flame doesn't have the same magic

i'm not super familiar w/ david shapiro on gawker

http://gawker.com/5912835/riff-raffs-got-a-record-deal-making-sense-of-the-most-viral-human-being-in-music

http://www.austinthirdgen.org/upload/yawn.jpg

― Mr. Que, Friday, July 23, 2010 4:23 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://gawker.com/markers/

not sure to do w/ this news in my inbox:

David Shapiro @fusedavid is now following you

http://www.shaydeelane.50megs.com/images/stalking.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A4cHzvi9hbA/TnwdrNGVJGI/AAAAAAAAADc/RxykQMtZAYs/s1600/following21.jpg

maybe i should send him webarchive links to all my reviews from 12 years ago that PF deleted from the site to kickstart Pitchfork Reviews Reviews Classics

He is pleasant to talk to and has the attentive eyes of a good listener--however, his attention this evening is divided among a tremendous group of people he has to greet, thank, and shop-talk. His elusiveness only works to preserve an aura of mystery cultivated over nearly the past two years, starting with the fact that his name is not David Shapiro.

Having a pseudonym (“I just picked a name that gets lost in Google”) serves as a buffer between David’s music and culture writing online, and his other career at “a very conservative institution in downtown Manhattan.” In addition to his third career as a neophyte screenwriter, David is also responsible for The World’s First Perfect Zine, a one-time publication he created with an impressive roster of collaborators from the worlds of music, film, literature, and both print and digital media. He is 23 years old.

http://zachsokol.tumblr.com/post/27082616545/a-conversation-with-the-quasi-elusive-david-shapiro-of

Websites like The Awl and Gawker helped me understand that there were no meaningful limits for writing in the first person. They helped me understand that the more honest and truthful I was, the more people would like the writing.

All I can say is that he does have a few things up his sleeve, even though he’s going to Brooklyn Law in the fall and will not be able to freelance for a year as a condition of his scholarship. That means he will no longer be publishing work at Interview, Fuse, Gawker or The Wall Street Journal, though his Tumblr is fair game.

this 'metamag' kid is like a magnificent parody of prr

David Shapiro ‏@fusedavid
Today is my last day at Fuse and then I'm going to law school! Goodbye music writing world, it's been fun, I will miss you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2yStD2GWhU

"you can leave and go to law school whenever you like."

wonder if hes attending on the burt_stantion memorial scholarship fund

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiuoAgyAFs0

man see u

forthcoming author of brooklyn law review review /dadjoek

David Shapiro ‏@fusedavid
Hey my twitter account has been hacked so if you get a DM from me, don't click the link! Seriously you will regret it

Awl Music is meant to emulate the MTV experience of thirty years ago. We have VJs just like MTV did back then, and these are people you already know. Dave Bry, Jeff Rosenthal, Sarah Johnson and David Shapiro—all friends of The Awl—are programming the channel. Awl Network editors like Alex, Choire, Edith and Adam will also contribute. There will be guest VJs like Emily Gould and her "Songs About Gossip" playlist, as well as crowdsourced selections like the "Summer Jams" playlist. Everyone who programs the channel has great taste. Each one has a different taste.

http://www.theawl.com/2012/09/the-new-awl-music-app

oh, i was fine up to the crowdsourced "summer jams" playlist. so poignant! it's like when your kid comes home from school with a toilet paper tube covered in macaroni and glitter. and you have to say something nice, right? but...

http://raggedband.com/?p=1869

'A few years back...' possibly the first time in my young life ive ever read something and felt old

great dispatch

t’s all there; the ambivalence, the wit, the valley girl turns of phrase intermingled with my-only-job-as-an-interviewer-is-to-give-people-rope-and-let-them-hang-themselves quotes from his hapless subjects.

http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/38158812487/in-2014-there-will-be-a-pitchfork-reviews-reviews-book

Pitchfork Reviews Reviews creator and World’s First Perfect Zine editor David Shapiro’s debut YOU’RE NOT MUCH USE TO ANYONE, pitched as updating THE GRADUATE to the milieu of WFPZ contributor Lena Dunham’s GIRLS, to Ed Park at Amazon Publishing.

kid is the best damn music writer i have read in ages and i am crazy crazy jealous, like knowing what truman capote was up to his teens & 20s level jealous. just for the record.

― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, September 2, 2010 1:21 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://stetnyc.com/interviews/one-question-david-shapiro-jr-pitchforkreviewsreviews/

I am reading from my book on Sunday night at Cake Shop. Readers include the archive editor at The New Yorker, a prominent conservative commentator, other writers. It will be a great opportunity to hear nice writing, to bring a date, to see and be seen

Plot Summary for
Unreachable by Conventional Means (2013)

A recent college graduate (Brener) decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of his dreams (Daddario). With an unsupportive girlfriend, an increase of clienteles, and the growing threats of being caught or killed, he soon realizes he is in way over his head.

"You’re Not Much Use to Anyone, a book about being financially supported by his parents after college"

David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk—a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White House. But his outward fame doesn’t quell his confusion about the world and his direction in it.

This semiautobiographical debut is a coming-of-age story perfect for our time. In Sense of Wonder author Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s words, “If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart’s parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

that reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye that reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Ryethat reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye that reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Ryethat reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye

why did I have this thread bookmarked

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What was that blog that was like Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, except it reviewed all sorts of webzine reviews (Stylus, Cokemachineglow, PopMatters, etc.) and its whole raison d'etre was to just be really snide and snarky in this hacky way, where you suspected the guy was just really bitter and resentful that his P4k application was rejected?

I Love Music?

ripfork iirc

Yes, that's it -- thanks! (Wow, he kept that up until early 2012.)

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/11/supreme-skateboarding-clothing-underground-fashion-store-chinatown.html

I spend a lot of time thinking about what Supreme-related stories I can pitch. Sometimes, when I’m walking from Manhattan to Brooklyn, I walk out of my way past Supreme just to look through the windows and see what’s sold out. I try not to go into the store more than once a week because I know the people who work there will think, “This weird kid is coming in twice a week now and not buying anything…” I know the original retail prices of every item they’ve made since 2008 (and some from before that), probably like 400 or 500 items.

enrages me to no end that this guy's cashing new yorker cheqes for blogging this crap

The New Yorker employs a lot of hacks. It's no big deal.