who is Bob Lefsetz?

there is really not much relation between fame and sales of new records. Almost everyone knows who Chuck Berry is but I doubt his posthumous album is going to sell 50 million copies this week.

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guy whose whole persona is 'entitled jerk' in being an entitled jerk shocker?

don't know what's going on anymore. I'm sitting on the crapper reading my phone and freaking

Bob Lefsetz is all of us.

it's been said before but

new board description

fuckin xpost

I'm paranoid, crappin with my finger on the twitter

Hey, Bob, would you please go on the r—

Ask me to go on the road and do the same thing 150 times in a row and there's no way

He stays at home and blogs the same thing 150 times, so...

I have a morning ritual. I wake up, unplug my phone, go to the bathroom, sit on the throne and check my e-mail, my Twitter feed and then the news, in that order.

I've grossed you out.

omg the paragraph right after that

it offends me that this guy has ever been paid anything to voice, state, or elaborate on any opinion he holds

No coffee before shit? Impressive

No shirt either I'd wager.

interesting that he calls his poop "the news"

My place is a dump. No one can come in.

Soderbergh thought he was smarter than the industry, he only spent half the usual marketing dollars, $20 million instead of $40 million. And he’s going on about how the film is in profit and other hogwash

something deeply sad about that new column, I think our Bob has entered his bitter phase

imo when people really attached to the status quo start spouting gibberish about how you didn't really succeed because you didn't do all the things they deem correct ($40 million on marketing!) then you might be doing just fine

something deeply sad about that new column, I think our Bob has entered his bitter phase

Entered??

Get out of your dirty house, Lefs.

And as I was descending the staircase I said to myself...I NEED TO COME TO THE SOHO HOUSE MORE OFTEN!

Then again, Taylor Swift is a woman of her times. Embattled, self-righteously taking on all detractors, just like the President.

And by pointing this out I'm seen as part of the problem as opposed to part of the solution.

But someone has to stand up for truth.

And I'm not worrying about payback, SHE ALREADY WROTE A SONG ABOUT ME!

Ask Pete Townshend if he still hopes he dies before he gets old. He IS old, and he LIKES IT!

http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.snl.com/SNL_0636_06_Update_4_Grumpy_Old_Man.png

Although I always found stretchy material to be somewhat see-through, undies visible, but I didn't think too much about it.

I’m a jeans and polo shirt kind of guy. That was a big breakthrough in high school, the ability to wear jeans to class. But back then we called them “dungarees.”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0WVYYtCMAA0hSt.jpg

Me On CNN

in which bob shaves ("i'm bad at it"), is driven to the cnn studio in hollywood, is ushered past cnn security ("if you're on the list, you're golden. that's what life's all about, being on the list"), gets his makeup done, goes on some cnn show to talk about eminem (because i guess keith olbermann wasn't available?), meets one of harvey weinstein's victims ("a very attractive woman"), watches her get even more attractive when the makeup artist applies lipliner and lipstick, realizes that life's an illusion, and concludes that donald j. trump is "no match" for marshall mathers.

also, there's video of his cnn appearance.

amazing.

279 emails just waiting for Bob to reply to

I'm eating fruitcake.

I know, I know, it's supposed to be inedible, you're supposed to pass it on to some out of the loop friend as a gift, there are fruitcakes from the 1800s still circulating, but this one is pretty damn good, it came from Whole Foods with a gingerbread base and nothing involved speaks to my holiday memories since I'm Jewish, but I'm all up for new traditions, as long as you don't put a Christmas tree up in the house, who knows what's next, a cross?

A Very Lefsetz Christmas

the day has arrived when I finally agree with lefsetz

Curiosity got the better of me after reading this thread, so I signed up and it's quite the ride. This line from the latest one about Petty is just too much to not post:

And it was all in our heads. This was long before MTV. Production at shows was limited. You bought the vinyl and spun it alone in your room and transcended, you had to go to the show not to shoot selfies, not to say you were there, BUT TO PRAY AT THE CHURCH OF YOUR SOUL!

physically cringed at the new one about the Quincy Jones interview

Joanie....gotta ask yourself the tuff questions as an artist

Can you lay it on the line? Can you tell us how you feel? Can you reach down deep and puke it all up without giving a fuck?

That’s what we’re looking for.

THIS is what we're looking for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLnVgR7fLw

that is a lot to process.

I cannot imagine what other would have G. Gordon Liddy and the Residents in their video

upper miss's lefsetz imitation makes me irl lol every damn time

I wonder does he know what "eviscerate" actually means?

xpost u are too kind all honor and praise to the most high true & living L.e.f.

https://themuse.jezebel.com/this-writer-exposing-metoo-in-the-music-industry-isnt-1823000278

yeah. articulates the feeling i had when i read it in the first place like um, lef buddy, have you tried reading your own letter?

Yep

unsurprisingly the top comment is something about how taylor swift can't sing live, as if that exonerates lefsetz for sexism

Wait, are we back to "hating Taylor Swift is anti-feminist" because I thought we moved onto "liking talentless white becky Taylor Swift is neo-nazism"

nah we're all the way back to

Lefsetz is the same writer who saw Beyoncé perform at the 2013 Super Bowl and remarked that he wasn’t sure what to do afterwards, “join a gym or masturbate.” He’s the same critic who assured readers that if they wanted to “get laid” they should go to a One Direction show. “An endless sea of barely pubescent girls, screaming their heads off,” he wrote. He dedicated an entire letter to Emily Ratajkowski’s cameo in the “Blurred Lines” video because “it was the only thing that had me watching, who was the girl with the perfect breasts?”

I get so weirded out when I see Lefsetz getting taken seriously in the wider world

Lefsetz is the same writer who saw Beyoncé perform at the 2013 Super Bowl and remarked that he wasn’t sure what to do afterwards, “join a gym or masturbate.

lol what a silly old man where does he get these ideas

https://j.gifs.com/JqKEXl.gif

i enjoy having a laugh at this guy on this thread, but yeah, it is crazy that he is actually considered an authority on ... anything.

I try to keep Lefsetz in mind when other experts are given suddenly platforms for comment in the wider world.

e.g. generic tech executives with supposed insights into where AI will be in 15 years.