pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

Like what would a song like the Beatles' "A Day In the Life" even be without the prosaic details?

4000 less holes

tbf those holes were rather small

http://pitchfork.com/features/festival-report/10059-are-music-festival-lineups-getting-worse/

this is a weird article in re how it doesn't really address the question in the title and doesn't acknowledge any kind of inside perspective into festival lineups vis a vis pitchfork fest. in fact, pfork fest is barely acknowledged at all. i'm also confused by the gender breakdown chart - if there's a band with two women and two men, it seems like that should count "more" than a solo female artist, but it doesn't seem like they're counting it that way? i don't know, just a weird and not particularly useful article.

to turn the pedantry up a notch, let's consider this alternate reading of the sentence:

"It’s back-to-basics energy and prosaic storytelling make it his best solo album in years."

i.e. the album is back-to-basics energy; prosaic storytelling make[s] it his best... (in which case the error here would be the plural rather than singular form of "to make")

eh?

anyway, agree w/ wimmels that prosaic as a descriptor for lyrics is almost always derogatory; the word more or less means banal, pedestrian, unexceptional, even dull. "dazzling with prosaic details" is just a very misguided construction.

to turn the pedantry up a notch, let's consider this alternate reading of the sentence:

"It’s back-to-basics energy and prosaic storytelling make it his best solo album in years."

Again, this sentence was probably not by the author of the review, which is who Wimmels is quibbling with

i think you're sort of missing my point, but yes i understand the author didn't necessarily write those first two lines.

anyway, the author certainly wrote this:

This is Davies in Dylan mode, hyperbolic but as dazzling with prosaic details as his student Jarvis Cocker.

i'm not saying that a lyricist has never employed the prosaic to artistic effect. i'm just saying that it would be an unusual choice of words to call that effect "dazzling," and for that reason i think the author doesn't know what the word really means. that's all.

or maybe it was slang for prose mosaic

regardless, we should really keep this conversation going

lmao holy shit i was reading the story about the brainiac documentary and the hyperlink for the kickstarter campaign was this http://deadspin.com/5986076/ladies-jr-smiths-twitter-come-on-will-have-you-sopping-wet

no idea why I was mentioned, I don't give a shit about "prosaic" either way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

not to speak for whiney but i think he was nodding to your past posts about editors sabotaging stories by tinkering with the titles

xpost lol @ ulysses

the very existence of public-facing stories is greater sabotage than any editor could possibly inflict

anyway, agree w/ wimmels that prosaic as a descriptor for lyrics is almost always derogatory; the word more or less means banal, pedestrian, unexceptional, even dull. "dazzling with prosaic details" is just a very misguided construction.

idk that phrase is bad maybe but there are ways to employ "prosaic" that are not derogatory--it's certainly better than saying "banal details", less clunky than "everyday details" and not as eggheaded as "quotidian details"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEt1vV3KAH0

"This is the last installment of this column in Pitchfork. Beginning in May it will appear in the Village Voice."
http://pitchfork.com/features/greil-marcus-real-life-rock-top-10/10062-what-do-you-call-father-john-misty/

end of an era

Ha how many Marcus pitchfork columns were there -- three?

i think he did it for a year

I take it back, he wrote a bunch and I wasn't paying attention.

I wonder how many people sent him hate mail

i liked his recent-ish thing about "right" being the new "like"

"Prosaic" is always bad, read books

read butts

two butts beating as one

ok, i think it's kinda hilarious there was this widespread mocking of justin bieber for saying in the NYT Where Are U Now video that they were "expensive sounds" and now i've seen that exact language used in both p4k's DAMN. review and its Narkopop one today

honestly always liked it as a shorthand descriptor so i'm pleasantly surprised to see it popping up

http://pitchfork.com/news/73105-new-doritos-bags-play-the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-soundtrack-on-built-in-cassette-decks/

If you’re a fan of cheesy snack foods and well-curated superhero film soundtracks, Doritos has developed just the thing for you.

http://del.h-cdn.co/assets/15/30/320x180/gallery-1437512018-wayne-s-world-product-placement.gif

I think they could jazz up these press release stories by speculating that the corporate spokesperson was smoking a blunt while responding to the writer's emails.

If you’re a fan of cheesy snack foods and well-curated superhero film soundtracks, Doritos has developed just the thing for you.

If you’re a fan of cheesy snack foods and well-curated superhero film soundtracks, Doritos has developed just the thing for you.

sorry my keyboard is sticky from all the Doritos

props on them for digging up "Mr. Blue Sky" i haven't heard that song in a commercial in a while

bonkers
http://pitchfork.com/news/73115-father-john-mistys-bonkers-new-total-entertainment-forever-video-stars-macaulay-culkin-as-kurt-cobain/

did they steal that "bonkers" set from Adam Green's Aladdin movie?

If you’re a fan of cheesy snack foods and well-curated superhero film soundtracks, Doritos has developed just the thing for you.

Father John Misty Confirms That When He Bedded Taylor "Bonkers" Swift, There Were Virtual Dorito Crumbs in the Sheets

did they steal that "bonkers" set from Adam Green's Aladdin movie?

ask and ye shall receive. they saved that for the interview w Adam Green. PWND

jfc it feels like Pform is FJM's personal PR platform at this point, just stop it already

I will never not be funny that Pitchfork still runs lede grafs like this after 20 years

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23086-digital-dance/

okay lol

like an old friend

That Software review is one of the more embarrassing ones I've seen in a while.

it's not perfect but that Software album definitely dserves far better than that write-up and lowest billing for the day

Like honestly, it's so so so funny to me that this company has made literal millions upon millions on deals with huge media companies and inventing wildly profitable music festivals and at no point do they ever think to change their house style from "let's start with two sentences passionately explaining what it's like to use a service that's more popular than Facebook"

And, to be fair, since I'm old now, no shots at a young writer in a broken system.

never heard of Software but I'm liking this quite a bit

Worth reading Annie Zaleski's story on them and their rediscovery some weeks back:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/03/09/software-band-interview/