this guy has gotten gradually more insane over the past 5 years, its been 'interesting' to watch. is this what being a music critic does to you?
― ciderpress, Friday, 20 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
does weird me out that this dude showed up right around the time i stopped writing rock crit on the regular. the game needed an anthony ______o to annoy it.
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
You all will remember this day when this dude takes over the world.
― ksh, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 1:14 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 February 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
Dude's awesome.
― ksh, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 12:02 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
anthOny______o
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
i find that i cannot watch his videos
not only are they painful to watch but his irrtating voice and facial expressions ricochet around in my mind long after, that irritating false authoritativeness that seems to come solely from assuming he can get to the "correct" analysis of something because he is "smart"
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
i'm just thankful youtube seems to have figured out somehow to reduce the frequency of his videos in my search results after accidentally clicking on them a few times
― j., Friday, 20 February 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
obv this is comically vain, but it's like..."gee to make financial sense of being a full-time rock crit you'd have to be comfortable making big, obnoxious faux-quantitative evaluations of things that you will be increasingly not the target audience for as you age, believe i'll find new fields to plow and just stick to the occasional rock-related blog post and being a dink on ilx" meanwhile the The Dark Half was going on in Connecticut
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Ladies and gentlemen, the gangsta rap pewdiepie is here
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
croup, you can seriously stuff the idea that you left rock criticism because you were somehow "above" it
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
i thought i was throwing in enough self-depreciation and acknowledgement of financial truths to avoid looking like that's what i'm doing, but guess not
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
i mean i worked as a gossip blogger for a couple years after, i'm not saying that's "above" rockcrit
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
word
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
but do allow me the vanity of seeing this dillpickle as like, a version of myself that didn't get over the idea of rating the rhymes of teenagers being a life purpose
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
accent on the word "rating"
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
lest it sound like i don't respect music journalism
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
or more thoughtful critical appreciations of work
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
i suspect that a substantial measure measure of AF's success owes to his appearance and tone. he has the face of children's show host, unremarkable yet extremely pliable, prone to rubbery, theatrical exaggeration. his expressions seem not expressive of an inner state, but contrived in an actorly manner to illustrate this or that point. while he speaks in a blandly authoritative manner, he's by no means deep thinker, and he throws in plenty of goofy asides to let you know that he's a "fun guy". all of this makes his videos easy to follow and soothing in the manner of crap network television.
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
oh he could definitely be gene shalit someday
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
if submitted to looping videos of fantano reviews i would admit to anything, it's absolute t o r t u r e to sit through, like get to the fucking point already - probably his audience enjoys lenghty hyperactive youtube hosts/channels more than i do
can easily see why it's popular though, seems to me it has a very calculated appeal like sean parkers international hipster playlist on spotify
― niels, Friday, 20 February 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
if this is "popular" it's as good an argument for wiping out human beings as any
― f***kin good lookin for a knacker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
i suspect that a substantial measure measure of AF's success owes to his appearance and tone. he has the face of children's show host, unremarkable yet extremely pliable, prone to rubbery, theatrical exaggeration. his expressions seem not expressive of an inner state, but contrived in an actorly manner to illustrate this or that point.
not realizing where i was i assumed "af" meant arcade fire. still works kinda
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
while people praise ebert for all his warm-hearted blogging and support of the indie scene etc, dude got famous being a nonthreatening, amiable nerd who showed sincere respect for the medium while keeping it light and telling people what was worth seeing with his thumb. fantano fits the mold perfectly.
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, February 20, 2015 11:18 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha ok that even might be a LITTLE unfair to fantano, of whom i am NO FAN
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I mean, I kid but you can't really hate on Fantano
Dude found his own lane wherein he actually reviews for an audience that exists instead of the less than 1000 people on planet earth who give a fuck about "rockism" and "pazz and jop" and Wussy
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Like he's not trying to get ALL UP IN OUR BIZ pitching clips to Fader or the Oxford American or whatever. Dude exists in his own bubble
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
a LITTLE unfair to fantano, of whom i am NO FAN
no fan o'?
― contenderizer, Friday, 20 February 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Fantano? Not a fan.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
lotta room for $$$ in a bubble
― j., Friday, 20 February 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
Wow, I definitely started this thread by posting video with the Needle Drop dude in it.
― markers, Sunday, 1 March 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFo0j945vB8
― hunangarage, Monday, 9 March 2015 03:31 (nine years ago) link
thanks to deej's twitter i see this guy has some kind of latin-borat komedy r&b alter ego
― goole, Friday, 21 August 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
most youth internet culture (aside from the racists) just pass me by w/o any impression but this little dingus makes me so angry
― goole, Friday, 21 August 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
god yes me too
― bombsover# (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 August 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/music-vlogger-anthony-fantano-mistaken-for-oregon-shooter
― TheFatSJW (D-40), Friday, 2 October 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
i say execute him just in case
― nameReinhard Gruhl/name (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 October 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
ok lol
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 2 October 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
who wants to look at a music critic?― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:32 (5 years ago)
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:32 (5 years ago)
Just dawned on me this week that needle drop guy is uncommonly beautiful. Looks much better with a shaved head though.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
thread title compels me to post that whenever I want to hear a hip-hop review, my first stop is Dead End Hip Hop
― Dominique, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
https://albumfriend.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/fantano2.png
― hunangarage, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
usually goes down differently when they appear on each other's shows
― Dominique, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 22:51 (eight years ago) link
I decided to give a fantano youtube a try. This guy lost me by talking longer than a minute
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 23:04 (eight years ago) link
Oh shit.., he just sarcastically called me an independently thinking snowflake
― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
I hate when youtube recommends this guy to me now (I found a stop suggesting option but it must still have kinks). I cringe everytime his trendy, bulbous, hipster face gets placed next to content I like
I want to kill him between the eyes
― The Once-ler, Friday, 22 January 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
It's impressive how he manages to look so aggressively annoying in every single still image I've ever seen of him, that's some real brand cultivation. I tried watching a video once out of curiosity and made it about twelve seconds, just brutal.
― mozart, Friday, 22 January 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
Fantano is (slightly) less obnoxious than this guy.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 22 January 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s8mhU6P1Ho
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 January 2016 23:25 (eight years ago) link
milo13 16,335Upvote+2DownvoteWow…Fantano is like me without bitches
― k3vin k., Thursday, 3 March 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
i hate this stuff
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 3 March 2016 01:40 (eight years ago) link