WTF @ this “cancelled” bullshit.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 18 November 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
You know who else's early branding would be considered offensive by today's standards? pic.twitter.com/7bGFZTu4vT— Jeremy Gordon (@jeremypgordon) November 18, 2018
― maura, Monday, 19 November 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
....... vice isn't exactly virtuous!!
― I forgot her name, not trying to be funny, Veronica something? (map), Monday, 19 November 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
Sadly, Dos & Don'ts Have Been Problematic This Whole Time
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 November 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
It is a really fascinating irony
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
Wonder if that links to a broader problem: as all culture is mongrel, you can't criticise cultural appropriation from a position of innocence
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
why ppl in the west have always been drawn to classical antiquity revivals, positioning themselves as new athenses/romes iirc
― j., Tuesday, 20 November 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
ftr i wasn't trying to be sarcastic i was just making a dumb joke. vice is actively racist trash that is a lot more than 'compromised like we all are' or whatever. cultural exploitation is lame. arguments in defense of it sound like trickle-down economics to me. that being said i don't really want to read an article about gwen stefani doing it written by a newly woke twenty-something for vice dot com but best of luck to that person u no.
― macropuente (map), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
We're going to fight like fuck to have Gwen Stefani recognised as problematic.
― triggercut, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 05:10 (five years ago) link
What the hell is this, from LA Weekly
Blackbear is more than just a musician. He is one of the most talented, hard-working, dedicated and strong artists to enter the studio. Aside from his ability to create hit records seemingly effortlessly, it’s his real-life experiences battling anxiety and substance abuse that he bravely recounts through his lyrics. Records like “Anxiety” and “If I Could I Would Feel Nothing” give hope and strength, allowing his growing fan base to not only relate but to find comfort.Real name Matthew Musto celebrates many successes, including three independent albums and sold-out shows across the world. In 2017, he landed his first placement on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Do Re Mi” from Digital Druglord, with the remix featuring Gucci Mane accumulating 88 million views on YouTube and counting.Now at 27 years old and in the best headspace he’s been in for a long time, Blackbear plans to take his already flourishing career to the next level. With his forthcoming project titled Anonymous coming on Valentine’s Day, fans can look forward to some of his best work yet
Real name Matthew Musto celebrates many successes, including three independent albums and sold-out shows across the world. In 2017, he landed his first placement on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Do Re Mi” from Digital Druglord, with the remix featuring Gucci Mane accumulating 88 million views on YouTube and counting.
Now at 27 years old and in the best headspace he’s been in for a long time, Blackbear plans to take his already flourishing career to the next level. With his forthcoming project titled Anonymous coming on Valentine’s Day, fans can look forward to some of his best work yet
I guess LA Weekly is the one that was bought out by a secret ownership group and they fired all the writers? It shows.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
Now at 27 years old and in the best headspace he’s been in for a long time,
is the writer his therapist?
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
Reads like a copy-paste job from a PR kit, and probably is.
― triggercut, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
Signed: Matthew T. Musto.
― pomenitul, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Real name Matthew Musto celebrates many successes
― jmm, Monday, 26 November 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
Yes, they recently appointed a new PR guy who immediately put another of his own businesses on the cover.
― Bing The Mighty Seat (sic), Monday, 26 November 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
same writer
Poppy is a surreal yet intriguing artist. One look at her Instagram, which boasts an impressive 770,000 followers, and willing participants are sucked into a wormhole. Aside from the damn near perfect still photos, her page contains videos that will have you screaming “Who is Poppy?” and wanting to know more.
The artist, real name Moriah Rose Pereira, is a one-off who sings, dances and creates art on the daily. The welcome page of her website reads, “Are you ready for your salvation?” With statements like “Robots are going to take over the world,” this divine creature is intriguing.
― President Keyes, Monday, 26 November 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
lmao ^^
"is a one-off" ?
― alpine static, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
unique, broke the mold, etc
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
surreal yet intriguing
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 November 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
xpost: is that a generally accepted definition of "one-off"?
honestly, that LAWeekly is publishing stuff like Keyes posted is super sad. guess i should pitch in on that thing Jeff Weiss (and others, I'm sure) has been pushing on Twitter.
― alpine static, Monday, 26 November 2018 23:58 (five years ago) link
speaking of la weekly
Discovered tonight that a critic who was "dragged" a few years ago for writing a sexist column has rebranded as an explicitly conservative writer (but not MAGA, of course) -- amazing to witness a grift hatch in real-time— Jeremy Gordon (@jeremypgordon) November 27, 2018
― maura, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
I don't want to bag on the LA Weekly writer I quoted by name because I assume she's a struggling young person who has to produce these pieces by the dozen in 25 minutes each in order to scrape together a living wage. But there is some kind of special off-ness to the way those are written that goes beyond just "this was done in a hurry," I think, and I can't quite place it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link
it reads like a copy of a copy of someone else’s marketing copy
― maura, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
editors would help
they'd help drive up costs you mean!!!
― j., Tuesday, 27 November 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
it reads like a copy of a copy of someone else’s marketing copyYeah, I was gonna say — it reads like a bad high school or college newspaper piece, Google-translated to another language and then back to English.
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
the naked careerism of some of the longtime L.A. Weekly folks who were deigned worthy enough to stick around is pretty off-putting, but those weren't the writers i used to like there.
― omar little, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 04:40 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't have ever put Falling James and 'naked careerism' in the same sentence.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 08:49 (five years ago) link
Via the Belle and Sebastian thread (and Wikipedia), I discovered this now-deleted OG Pitchfork gem:https://web.archive.org/web/20030604193859/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/belle-and-sebastian/boy-with-the-arab-strap.shtml
whatever an Arab Strap is, it should be used to batten down the crap song hatch
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
That's an awesome review that doesn't deserve to be mentioned in this thread. J@son Jos3ph3s is still active on twitter, btw.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
"awesome" is pushing it, "lazy" and "by the numbers" is a better description
but yes, it doesn't belong on this thread
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
I give the review a 5.9
― Evan, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
I give it a... 0.8
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
They always used to slag off popular albums. Their policy in those days was pretty much “If you’ve heard of it, it must not be very good.” I guess it helped get clicks though.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link
Their policy in those days was pretty much “If you’ve heard of it, it must not be very good.”
What webcomic do you write for with this idea?
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
Hologram Concerts Don't Suck, You're Just a Hater
professional troll Eve Peyser goes to a show where a video recording of a Roy Orbison impersonator with a CGI Roy Orbison face stuck on him is projected in front of an orchestra, just like the real Orbison played with
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
but is there holographic clingfilm
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
holografanfic
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
she really capitalized on that bari weiss kissyfest huh
― maura, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
she's having quite a year
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
very excited to not know who this is, thank you for not linking sic
― rob, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
Twitter things you def need to care about for 5 seconds
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2025587/vox-lux-review-natalie-portman-death-of-poptimism/franchises/sounding-board/
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 17 December 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 17 December 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
But at what cost? Maybe poptimism’s fatal flaw is placing too much of our hopes and ideologies on an art form that cannot support or sustain them. Or maybe it doesn’t matter
if you peer deeply into the clause "or maybe it doesn't matter" you will see the phrase "i really regret pitching this dumbass idea" slowly clarifying itself in the dimness
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
lol
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
how many times does somebody need to rewrite the "we've gone too far, time to reinstate cultural hierarchies" handwringer?
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
I mean apart from on ILM
― I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
alright everybody start writing Car Seat Headrest clickbait
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
“Every generation gets the rock star they deserve. An icon that both contextualises the surrounded cultural landscape and redefines it. Looking back on this bewildering decade, no star will better epitomise our fractured, hyper-sexed identities and fiscal insecurity than the swaggy nihilism of Post Malone. The world is literally on fire and 13-year-old YouTubers are covering entire Ferraris in Louis Vuitton x Supreme wraps. Posty reigns.”
― maura, Friday, 28 December 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link