Music Criticism in Video Form

lol whiney i kept it to a screencap for a reason

(but i also watched it, so. btw the whole thing is about denying the proposition that "alt" means "racist", like at a linguistic level: "alt-r&b" is made by black people, etc. nobody here has the life-minutes to burn.)

anyway otm that "games", broadly defined, are m/l For Everyone now and that was/is p much the whole problem.

200k ppl = "majority" is a pretty odd claim imo, that # of ppl who like that music would have to be almost infinitesimally small in the broader picture for that # to be a majority of any kind or even to imagine that it represents a majority who's not watching the video

i didn't have the life-minutes to burn on Fantano before i knew he was a bigot

fyi i am pro-social justice, pro-safe spaces, pro-diversity (and in certain circumstances positive discrimination), anti-harassment and anti-asshole

alas, too long for a display name

200,000 is certainly more people than watch a lot of the music videos by so-called indie rock darlings and certainly more than read a lot of the thinkpieces he's raging against.

I know it's not a real majority, but in the tiny insular world of five different sites posting WATCH THE NEW VIDEO FROM PHILADELPHIA SHRUG-ROCK BAND FERRNGULLLY it's basically Chewbacca mom

lol

but seriously the official video from the last bon iver album has 27 million views. this dude's paltry 200k are not on that level.

jesus christ that's 200 losers with a lot of time on their hands

I'm n-Ott gonna do a forensics breakdown but I can find some very well written about indie rock bands and very music-Twitter spicy takes that don't have 200,000 views

so the haircut was a clue after all

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, December 29, 2015

― salthigh, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:03

I haven't seen his thinkpiece videos but I stand by this statement. I heard that the "stinkpiece" he was criticizing was genuinely silly but I'm not jeopardizing my youtube recommendations to find out what he's like.

But is he really an actual bigot? Trump supporter?

All 200k views are from people who agree with its content.

i watched a few minutes of his stuff and he's...not alt-right fyi

thanks for the deep dive k3v

"i stand by his uncommon white nationalist beauty" - robert adam gilmour

the only reason there hasn't been a music g*mergate is that there hasn't been a music eron gj*ni

(that said female music writers have been doxed/etc in the past by the same crowd so it's closer than one might think)

Point is gamergate relied on this myth that doesn't operate in the music world

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, January 7, 2017 1:31 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the candy crush moms vs trv kvlt gamers thing was always a sideshow. gg was an antifeminist and antiliberal backlash. is there an audience for that in music criticism? i think there probably is. is there room for someone to make headway as a critic by being a very brave iconoclast against (just free associating here) the boring old schoolmarm 'progressive' values of the legacy music press? yes absolutely.

The entire thing might be played out via buying power once the unscrupulous CEOs that actually own music sites notice the Fantano/RYM numbers and realize that anti-cuck/anti-patrician/anti-SJW rants will mean more engaged viewers and unique hits than woke thinkpieces

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, January 7, 2017 2:08 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is as likely as anything imo

jim goad is still a thing, and he started as an offshoot of music culture, right?

Give the alt-right crowd the carrot (nu-metal) they always needed and the music world will be spared a gamergate-like event.

🤔

rock criticism's gamergate took place in 1979 and was called "disco sucks".

the candy crush moms vs trv kvlt gamers thing was always a sideshow. gg was an antifeminist and antiliberal backlash. is there an audience for that in music criticism? i think there probably is. is there room for someone to make headway as a critic by being a very brave iconoclast against (just free associating here) the boring old schoolmarm 'progressive' values of the legacy music press? yes absolutely.

― goole, Monday, January 9, 2017 10:54 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well if you define it like that literally anything can have its own gamergate, America just had its own gamergate that would seem to make a music journalism gamergate look like a candle in the sun

At this point the better question is why wouldn't there be a music Gamergate?

I doubt there's many good scandals in the completely dull world of music writing anyway. Most publicists will tell you the majority of music writers don't even go to shows and I think all the constant Tweeting about award shows and Westworld plays out that they're mostly a bunch of shut-ins.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, January 7, 2017 3:08 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you get that Gamergate wasn't driven by game critics but rather by the people playing games, right

given that a lot of the people who shot to fame as popularizers of right-wing nerd backlash seamlessly moved into mouthpieces for the alt-right more broadly... i mean i don't really know where you're going with that arg

to answer ums: i do think that pop music has, in whatever confused unhappy way, certain liberal ideas buried in it more deeply than video games do, or 'tech' more broadly

to complete the analogy, you'd need: some fake scandal supposedly showing the too-cozy relationship between well-connected music writers pushing music for its politics (or trying to punish for its bad politics), and a mass of fans who are angry enough about progressivism to turn it into a rolling crisis, with a growing hit-list of enemy-writers and a counter-slate of 'anti-pc' critics and musicians as heroes.

i could see glimmers of this in ugly moments -- i'm thinking of the inevitable chorus of rape denialist types that emerge when larkin grimm spoke out. but i don't know if i see those moments or groups forming. but they might!

...idk if sketching out an exact parallel scenario like that is all that useful tbh

swans bros are #1 on the alert list tbh

there's actually a fair bit of static in the metal world about sjw's trying to ruin everything by hating on goregrind etc. same shit, less traction.

I was going to bring that up but I only ever encounter it when EZ Snappin sends me a link

Right but what I was saying is you can find it at genre level but music is too decentralized, like I don't think macho grindcore fans and guys who don't want rap to sound too bling bling and ppl who think tool are the best are going to see common cause in going after sjw's who can in no way keep artists from being heard ?

America just had its own gamergate that would seem to make a music journalism gamergate look like a candle in the sun

totally off topic but when did "candle in the sun" become an expression? i never really heard it and then the miguel song came out and i've heard it other places lately too. obv i know "candle in the wind" but was i just missing a widely used expression?

does it become difficult to see
like a candle in the sun?

i think so

http://www.letsmakecandles.com/info_protect_from_sun_703.asp

I don't think D-40 has any clue what a grindcore fan looks like

https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/93/92/18/240_F_93921841_41w8FyxCphQPNEsvJ0t6PrhWgvcjzJnt.jpg

http://www.metalinsider.net/in-memoriam/grindcore-fan-that-happened-to-be-a-goat-passes-away

"to complete the analogy, you'd need: some fake scandal supposedly showing the too-cozy relationship between well-connected music writers pushing music for its politics (or trying to punish for its bad politics), and a mass of fans who are angry enough about progressivism to turn it into a rolling crisis, with a growing hit-list of enemy-writers and a counter-slate of 'anti-pc' critics and musicians as heroes."

all of this exists already.

also I shouldn't be surprised, given almost everyone here is male, but GG wasn't about politics -- that is the alibi GG made up in like a day to cover their ass. GG certainly tapped into politics but at heart it was about someone's ex getting revenge in the messiest, most trollish way possiblbe

*possible

Harrasment towards the lead singer of Chvrches (I forget her name, is it Lauren Mayberry?) was the one moment I believed something similar to gamergate would happen to the music community, it never reached crisis point like in the vg industry.

I can think of multiple instances where female music writers were harassed by roughly the same crowd, up to and including doxing

also I shouldn't be surprised, given almost everyone here is male, but GG wasn't about politics -- that is the alibi GG made up in like a day to cover their ass. GG certainly tapped into politics but at heart it was about someone's ex getting revenge in the messiest, most trollish way possiblbe

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, January 9, 2017 3:57 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean, maybe i'm not 'getting it' because i'm male, but how is that not also 'politics'.

like, the boundary between "politics" and "white male resentment" has all but been annihilated right?

http://i.imgur.com/XujHL.gif

the difference is that while the political resentment existed for decades, the thing that made it boil over was a harassment campaign against one female developer. the former was an excuse for the latter.