pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

cool that Kaitlyn Aurelia Pablum got that second placement

all of these women, being ranked improperly

ikr where's katie gately

nah I'll listen to their playlist I guess

They actually did do a decent job of it until the Out Door got the boot though.

― Position Position, Friday, December 9, 2016 12:04 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree, that was one of the few things that I ever went to Pitchfork to read. Now I check in if I'm curious about Bill Murray or Solange or Stranger Things for some reason

agree that this site has declined since the conde nast deal but have you even listened to the solange album? why would it be out of scope for the site?

For one thing, I'm not really interested in pop music, generally speaking, but it isn't the pop music criticism that puts me off so much as the lifestyle reporting and obsession with celebrities doing celebrity things

the Solange album is not pop music. Glance at the Hot 100.

Didn't Seat At The Table reach #1 in the States? I'm sorry to use Solange as an example because I know very little about her music other than it seems to appeal to a wider demo than the music I like usually appeals to. I have never once glanced at the Hot 100, for instance, and unless Esperanza or Miranda Lambert or Erykah Badu is on there (probably the most 'popular' albums I liked in 2016) I'm pretty sure I haven't listened to anything on it.

Badu had an album in 2016?

that's his point

thought his point was that Spalding, Lambert and Badu were "probably the most 'popular' albums I liked in 2016"?

http://the-out-door.tumblr.com/

it wasn't on their experimental top 20 list, but that blessed initiative album that pfork reviewed today is a really great headphones listen - very tactile scrunchy foley artist music

the main thing i took from this thread is lex is pro-groping

that isn't remotely close to what I meant, come the fuck on

the main thing i took from this thread is lex is pro-groping

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, December 9, 2016 10:05 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jesus Christ dude...

lmao

this experimental music playlist is extremely woke and incredibly boring

not even sure most of this is really all that experimental? it's certainly not making me think 'whoa, i've not heard much like this before!'

would endorse anna meredith as the compositions are dynamic and arresting, maybe elysia crampton is doing some cool stuff too and tt is telling me to persist with amnesia scanner (and there MIGHT be something to that jefre chap) but really 'pablum' is the word for most of this stuff, it's a bland morass.

i guess you take what you can from this stuff but it really is a disappointing show

Oh haha wait here's Matmos :D

Oh there's something to Moor Mother too now. SALVAGING SOMETHING AT THE DEATH

i'll be honest with you, with something named "the out door" i expect a column dedicated to exploring the underwhelming final records by massively popular bands.

would read that column actually

the main thing i took from this thread is lex is pro-groping

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, December 9, 2016 10:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

?????

if you're an unknown, ranking #100 on pitchfork's top 100 is orders of magnitude more valuable than ranking, say, #32

because you're the first thing that people read, and in a position where people still have the attention span to read the entry instead of skimming over it

just getting a lil deep about lil peep, sorry

Lil Peep becoming a breakout star in 2017 would be a very interesting experience. I would bring out the popcorn for that

ok what is with this pandora sponsorship thing tbh

"sponsorship is evil" stuff aside.....pandora? really?

i honestly thought pitchfork and apple music were cushy so this is really weird to me, but maybe im totally off base

sweet #1 choice

Chance and Kanye have like ten appearances each on there

And there should've been more: Fade, Finish Line/Drown, Same Drugs, Father Stretch My Hands pt 1... great year for both of them, really

http://pitchfork.com/news/70394-adventure-time-islands-miniseries-announced/

so is this the first one that has nothing to do with music and doesn't even try to?

Wait, what? I'm so confused. Why is there a news story about a children's TV show on there?

hipster millennials love adventure time

Golden Globe nominees story was worse

Pandora's about to roll out its on-demanding streaming service. First step is targeting the Whitney fans.

> ok what is with this pandora sponsorship thing tbh

U GUYS

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/news/70351/c22ba646.jpg

tfw when your site advocates for marginalized voices all year but boss asks you to play nice with the internet's biggest gathering place of unrepentant racists, creep-shot enthusiasts and kid-touchers

tfw when your site advocates for marginalized voices all year

i've said this before and i'll say it again

the more performatively woke an outlet, the more likely they are to treat (ALSO PAY) their inexperienced POC and LGBT writers badly

Wut? Surely you're not suggesting they pay POC and LGBT writers less? I know the whole enterprise is crashing downhill, but that seems highly unlikely to me.

no, and i'm not talking about pitchfork

I'm lost now

performatively woke

stealing this phrase because it nails the dangerous tendency to treat social justice as a trend (by definition: inevitably displaced), which is why I wonder how many Bandcamp proceeds will be getting donated to progressive causes this time next year. Then again, I'm a cynic

"performative" as synonym for "inauthentic" really spread quickly

it's not really a synonym imo

that didn't seem implied to me

u can be inauthentic without being performative. imo "performative" speaks more to a style of social media behavior than the actual ideas that behavior is promoting. it's the personalized version of a fluff piece PR ad from Exxon about how they care about the environment and the future.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I guess I tend to have negative associations with the word 'performative' in this context