imago's transition from screeching facebook feminist to frothing alt-right pepe is so perfect
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
that's exactly what's happened here
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
best list so far I think. wouldn't be my number 1 but she is the patron st of basic millennials so makes sense
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
if it was all POC then that'd be cool or w/e but no, there's motherfucking bon iver
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, December 14, 2016 11:36 AM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
incredible post
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
new board description
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
timeline here:
1. See Fader have a list 2. Read the vile woman-reducing garbage masquerading as feminism in their #1 blurb, start to wonder what sort of complacent stupid hipster nonsense the site must be 3. Scroll through rest of list. Lots of artists appearing multiple times. That's boring. Oh and OK they're mostly nonwhite. Almost all so. Is The Fader a black music magazine? 4. No, it isn't (Bon Iver!) It's just a lifestyle & music zine showing how goddamned smart and 2016 it is.5. I'm alt-right now??
Nothing wrong with a majority nonwhite list per se but this one reeks of forcing it, performativity etc, and with some REALLY annoying writing
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
anyway that really is all, but in case of future whiney goading, no i am not a racist or a pepe or any other hate-defined internet demographic
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
'sex with me' > 'black beatles' were my numbers 1 & 2 also. not sure if i should be redesigning my list here or what >:(
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
seems like it mostly lists the type of artists they cover?
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
It's just a lifestyle & music zine showing how goddamned smart and 2016 it is.
Dude, have you actually seen what's happening in 2016?
― Position Position, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
"sex with me" is great i just don't particularly rate it over the other anti singles
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
You don't see how
A) Making a mental tally of the number of non-white musicians on a list B) Equating "liking black artists" with ""smart"" and ""2016" C) Publicly flipping out about it
Are all super weird and racist?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
based on your thought process as described in 1-4 and the various assumptions it contains (only a black music publication would have a EOY list of the best music that was majority black, black people would never listen to Bon Iver), my answer to #5 is "no, but you're getting there"
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
xplol the mental leap that occurs between 3 and 4 on that list is very weird
― rob, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't sure what I thought about this list on first brush but now I love itcontributor roster is super diverse too, you might want to think about that for a minute imago
― rob, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
Posts like imagos are one step away from ironically posting *triggered* and screaming at "cuckfork" for liking Solange. Keep this shit off our board and go back to being Limey Loi
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
#3 is imago jumping to the conclusion that Fader is "performatively woke"
― Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Its a good list but it also kinda makes me want my country back goddamit
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
make america rock again
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
agh, they drag me back in
Whiney:
didn't make a tally but fine I guess I was looking for the wrong thing. v conspicuous though and made more so by narrow genre focus
equating making a list of this particularly narrow focus with 'woke' contemporary discourse sure, but again it's probably my fault for othering it idk - for many people this focus is everything - I am sorry for this
Dan:
fair and I'm sorry again - although my aspie brain distinguishes between 'majority' and 'almost all' - but even then I guess it would be fair for a general music zine to do this. been so much great music of all genres this year though that it feels like a very forced editorial decision, but who am I to complain
rob: it's awesome that there is such diversity on the panel! that is to be commended. but this diversity has manifested in a weird and narrow list and I'll admit I can't get my head around it, maybe due to prejudice.
not your job to educate me. apologies again.
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
would like to stress as well that my initial fury was stoked by that write-up and that spilt over into my complaint with their weirdly restricted editorial focus, and I do not intend a tone of hatred towards black music, and I'm really sorry if it seems this way
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
why is this list "narrow"? It seems pretty musically diverse
admittedly more british rap than id like to see.
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
that you see a list with lots of black music as "restricted" or "narrow" might actually reflect your own myopic POV, just my 10 cents
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
er, pence?
idk why im bothering to argue with imago LOL
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
a list full of white rock bands would be even worse but we're not seeing much of those outside kerrang and classic rock mag
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
except for maybe over the last 40 years of music journalists making lists
― Wassail Anarchist (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
so let's not get into ridiculous notions of "balance"
really wish I'd been threadbanned now
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
maybe just maybe a lot of mainstream rock/indie/guitar pop/call it what the fuck you want is becoming an increasingly niche concern
― Wassail Anarchist (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
this diversity has manifested in a weird and narrow list and I'll admit I can't get my head around it
this has been said before in other ways, but there's a running theme in this thread, not at all surprising for a/this message board of course, of people ignoring the social aspect of music and expecting music writers and publications to be super focused on discovery or innovation rather than registering/analyzing music as a social phenomenon despite the fact that clearly the latter is both more common and more popular with readers
― rob, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
if it ain't woke don't fix it
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Wassail Anarchist (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
ha
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
― banfred bann (wins), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
― Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
Hehe
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
No comment on this specific back and forth but I will note that this is the second time in two days on ILX we've waded into someone or something being "performatively woke"
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
If music as a social phenomenon is a parameter why is there no Justin Bieber on these lists? Twenty One Pilots? Sia? Spotify is telling me they had some of the top 20 most listened songs of 2016
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
Bieber's album came out last year
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
also Bieber fucking sucks
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
so do Twenty One Pilots last time I checked
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
to be more precise I don't mean merely commenting on what's popular (though Bieber was surely on all these lists last year; Sia maybe too), I mean the writers who compile these lists engage in music socially. like part of why I am into "Work" or Lemonade are because my friends are too and they were part of conversations/life, and this is also true of writers.
god this is banal and obvs but it makes more sense than trying to uncover the office and identity politics at work behind every list
― rob, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday,
my niece's godfather's son's favorite band – fight this generation.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
I like "Heathens" but not nearly enough to investigate anything else they've done
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
Yeah i was kind of joking about the lack of white.
― Moka, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
I am not joking about Bieber being the worst
Fade Too Black
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/25/e5/8e/25e58e5594219984131c9a86a223e1d2.jpg
― Evan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:28 Bookmark
nahh. couple days ago i was this close to citing 'sex with me' omission as perfect example of eoy talking points memo irrelevance, it is a great song and it is HUGELY popular on the low in the realest way. #1 placing is a stunt flex but fuck it i cosign
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link