twin sister album was a disappointment
― flopson, Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:13 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
listen harder
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, November 8, 2018 7:40 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yah, i'm gonna keep trying. i don't dislike it but my expectations were high
― flopson, Friday, 9 November 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/tv/15-docs/how-apple-created-musics-best-device-and-then-ruined-it/
so bad
― niels, Monday, 12 November 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
I felt like this video is for people who miss the feeling of authenticity clicking on M*gaupload links gave them
― President Keyes, Monday, 12 November 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
totally, it was a brand new physical sensation
― niels, Monday, 12 November 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
Frank Ocean's Instagram Is Now Public
― twin sinema (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 November 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
Starting to sound like headlines written by a pitchfork specific neural network
― Evan, Friday, 16 November 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
What Paul Dano is Listening to Right Now
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 November 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
omg, that can't be real
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 November 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
oh it's very real
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 November 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Paul Dano might be the reason you first heard Sufjan Stevens. While making the 2006 indie hit Little Miss Sunshine, the actor was obsessed with Stevens’ album Michigan and played it for his co-stars as well as the film’s directors. “Everybody got super into it, and then we went to see him while we were filming,” Dano tells me over the phone.
unknown musician Sufjan Stevens scuffling along anonymously after the release of Michigan, Seven Swans, and Illinois.
― omar little, Friday, 16 November 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
funny that that's published on pitchfork dot com, the reason i first heard sufjan stevens
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 16 November 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
i thought this was a joke, too. that is so weird.
i really like pitchfork, still. i scan the reviews almost every day, if there's a feature that seems interesting i'll probably check it out, and a decent amount of the news is newsy enough to keep on the site, i think.
i really wish there was a way to filter out whatever category of "news" paul dano and the status of frank ocean's instagram privacy settings is, though. take that out, get rid of the classic album explainered in 5 minutes (all featuring that terrible forgettable bland animation style and the voiceover robot guy), delete october...there would be less "content" but you might be able to scroll through it all without getting irritable
maybe move away from the state of the art 2014-16 internet design style of an endless series of boxes on a grid, too
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 November 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
Until they drop or reduce the reviews I’m ok with what they do for clicks in the other parts of the site
― President Keyes, Friday, 16 November 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
IMO, online music news should be heavy on -- X artist is in the studio, X artist announces tour dates, X album release date announced, etc. Plus a sprinkling of legal/police blotter stuff as appropriate (though not overboard on that).
Pfork could be much heavier on those nuts & bolts than they are, I guess b/c they're understaffed?
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Friday, 16 November 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
I mean, they're basically more a "fluffy features + reviews (+bits of news)" site rather than "music news + reviews," and I guess that's fine if that's what brings the clicks, but I think they could be doing so much more.
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Friday, 16 November 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
Imagine if they were telling us Lucy Dacus was in the studio. The things we're missing.
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 November 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
Yeah - imagine being a music fan and wanting to read music news, what must that be like?
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Friday, 16 November 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
not remotely scalable in an economy built solely on gaming google and facebook?
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 November 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
Not sure what that means, but I understand that they won't do it if it's not viable. I'd think they could even pay one person to keep up a "newsfeed" column or something, make the site a little more useful as a regular destination, drive a little more traffic, I dunno. I'm no Conde Naste exec.
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Friday, 16 November 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
(Maybe most music fans follow 1,000 artists on social media, making "nuts & bolts" music news obsolete, and all they really do need to be told that Frank Ocean's Insta is now public.)
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Friday, 16 November 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
now they follow 1,001
― Bing The Mighty Seat (sic), Friday, 16 November 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
Feel like Pitchfork (and a lot of other internet publications, I guess) are trying to drive the narrative that Frank Ocean is like THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTISTIC GENIUS OF HIS GENERATION (his music is good, but he doesn't deserve that level of adulation just yet imo), and posting idiotic tidbits like his Instagram being public, are part of them trying to be like WE PLAYED A PART IN THAT, MAN. WE WERE THERE WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK AT THE FEET OF FRANK OCEAN, AND WE DOCUMENTED THAT SHIT IN REAL TIME. There was also a recent article about people who were re-selling the merchandise he was giving away for free during the elections. Who gives a fuck?
I know I'm yelling into a void here, but I just can't get past the "we won't even try to challenge the concept of celebrity being as valuable as, or more important than music, and by they way, we're very woke" thing that Pitchfork has been doing with increased frequency since the Conde sale, and I really shouldn't think about it as much as I do.
― triggercut, Saturday, 17 November 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
“Who gives a fuck?” is my reaction to 90% of Pitchfork posts (but I guess I chalk it up to me being old / out of touch / not target audience / etc.)
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Saturday, 17 November 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
Frank Ocean had an incredible impact on music tbh
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 17 November 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
Beach House Are the Chainsmokers’ Type of Thing, and I Kind of Want to Die
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Saturday, 17 November 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Those Annoying Age Gates
― MarkoP, Saturday, 17 November 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
Hot Sugar, Accused of Abuse, Sued Ricky Eat Acid and Fish Narc for Defamation(I LOL’d for reals at this one, purely b/c I’ve never heard these names. I’m sure it’s a sobering tale.)
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Saturday, 17 November 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/yahoo-serious-festival.jpg
― triggercut, Saturday, 17 November 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link
I keep wading through the garbage/fluffy news items about mumble rappers and EDM acts to hopefully get to the Massive Attack + Elizabeth Fraser expanded U.S. tour dates in my neck of the woods. Today, all I remember is something about smoke bombs at a Lil Pump concert. That is not what I wanted to read about.
― ilxor, Saturday, 17 November 2018 05:49 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/overtones/are-we-having-fun-yet-on-pops-morose-new-normal/It was time for someone on staff to run the “why is pop music sad now” thinkpiece obstacle course, and Jayson Greene acquits himself alright, I guess
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Saturday, 17 November 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
"so-and-so expands tour dates" may not be a viable way to run a website, but i have really come to appreciate Brooklyn Vegan's efforts on that front.
― alpine static, Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
Frank Ocean had an incredible impact on music tbhI don't buy this
he became the poster boy for a lot of changes that would have happened without him
― niels, Sunday, 18 November 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
I have zero understanding why somebody could possibly think that Frank Ocean is anything but one of the most important current working artists... like how much better does he have to be, how much harder does he have to work to get an acknowledgement that he's A-list, I just don't get it
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
I like Frank Ocean but I swear I can never remember any of his songs
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 18 November 2018 22:15 (five years ago) link
don't want to turn this into the frank ocean thread but afaik he's released a lot of weak material (whether that was on purpose and for contractual reasons, who knows, still weak) and his live shows have been bizarre displays of nonchalance (or shyness, but then why tour if you don't want to perform)
when he's good (Blonde, Channel Orange) it just sounds like rnb to me, I don't get what sets it apart, and surely that genre has a ton of hardworking singers
he has a good voice though
― niels, Monday, 19 November 2018 08:30 (five years ago) link
“SNL”’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Rap Parody Could Be Way Better
― twin sinema (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
― President Keyes, Friday, November 16, 2018 11:47 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Friday, November 16, 2018 3:36 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Friday, November 16, 2018 3:38 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cut/pasting because this trio of posts pretty much covers my own feelings
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
Pete Davidson Releases Powerful Statement About Bullying and Mental Health
wow, no.
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
at this point I expect Pfork to be dead (or at least just a zombie) within the decade cuz who is their audience at this point
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
AT THIS POINT
I say
Traffic is up 54% if you believe ComScore, but you do you, Οὖτις
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
up 54% from what
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
i never check up on this site but i was reading the mariah carey interview they published and noticed a link that said 'top 50 holiday songs of all time' or something and just, like... what? can a typical person, or even typical music lover, even identify 50 holiday songs they remotely enjoy? or is it just like a compilation of holiday songs by p4k-approved artists? (didn't bother to click)
― dyl, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
like if you have 10 fans and add 5, hey yr up 54%.
in my world of young people, zero millenials know who pitchfork is
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Too bad Conde Nast doesn't allow all their business decisions to be dictated by Οὖτις anecdotes
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
most every new album i google they're the top hit, must not be hard to capture traffic when the traffic-directing mechanisms are pointing everyone straight at you
― j., Monday, 3 December 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
I don't think their popularity/readership has declined significantly much at all in the CN years. BNM still a coveted goal, has material gains for artists, etc.
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
I don't usually complain about Pitchfork scores, but that 6ix9ine album has too high of a score for an album with nothing redeeming about it.
― MarkoP, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
You get a certain amount of points for just filling in your name on the front
― Evan, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link