As long as we’re talking about Pitchfork not being the dumb one, a quite nice write-up of Stevie Wonder’s The Secret Life of Plants for the Sunday Review:https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/stevie-wonder-stevie-wonders-journey-through-the-secret-life-of-plants/
― what else are you all “over” (Champiness), Sunday, 4 August 2019 06:59 (four years ago) link
hey now let's not lose our resolve
― j., Sunday, 4 August 2019 07:19 (four years ago) link
I don’t see anything sexist in Katherine’s review, it’s a v well-written review and v positive.
The moment of putting out a record puts the artist in a position of supreme vulnerability, and prone to reading subtext in reviews where there is none.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 4 August 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
On their debut, My Morning Jacket discovered the heavy reverb that would make them legendary.
just imagine if you'd been the one to discover reverb. Why, you'd be as legendary as My Morning Jacket, those clever devils!
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 4 August 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
"it’s what I feel and I think it warrants expression" lol he sounds very stoned
― dyl, Sunday, 4 August 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
just read the rolling stone review and while you definitely could tell it was by a (relatively) old school rock critic I didn’t find it sexist either
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 4 August 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
well it's very subtle
― j., Sunday, 4 August 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
as a woman you might not be able to see it
maybe when we're at a place where we can have a conversation about it, someone will be able to point it out to you
i mean if anyone can achieve that kind of subtlety
― j., Sunday, 4 August 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
The thing I am most looking forward to about the future is all the conversations we are going to have
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 4 August 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
Andy Beta's Wonder review is wonder-ful.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 August 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
lmfao @ Rostam
"we're not in a place as a culture for me to explain why I said what I said"
the vampire castle is collapsing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
I bet Rostam used a bunch of words he didn't quite know the meaning of.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
that quote was Rostam's Fairweather Johnson
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
it's true, we're really not in a place as a culture where people feel like they need to explain the dumb shit they write on Twitter
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
"I get this certain feeling when I see misogyny, and I felt kind of like that"
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
They’re still pushing the “Iggy Azalea has been canceled” line in this long Charlie XCX feature:
“Fancy,” which she co-wrote with Iggy Azalea, helped catapult the Australian rapper to a brief period of international superstardom five years ago, thanks to Charli’s booming cheer-chant of a chorus. While both artists have found it hard to replicate that song’s popularity, “Fancy” felt like the beginning of something for Charli, whereas with Azalea, it has come to represent a sort of ending.
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
Btw, “Fancy” was released before “Problem” (the hit Ariana Grande song featuring Azalea), so not sure how it represents any sort of “ending” for Iggy (even if you now feel that her career is kaput).
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
And "Black Widow" was a huge hit too!
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
I like this section at the end of the piece (never mind the misplaced modifier that kicks it off) — apparently Charli is a star, as long as you’re in the right kind of neighborhood?
Walking out of the spa, scores of pedestrians pass us, but not one of them gives Charli a second look. How is no one rushing up to her requesting a selfie? Why isn’t some 19-year-old stretching out of the passenger seat of a car singing “Vroom Vroom” at her? Well, we’re still in Midtown Manhattan, a neighborhood whose identity is defined by overpriced salads and men whose biggest problems involve locating shirts designed to be worn untucked.As we stand in this cultural wasteland, sharing a moment of awkward silence before deciding to part ways...
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
uh if you're a man no shirt needs to be DESIGNED to be worn untucked
― j., Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
tell that to these idiots
https://www.untuckit.com/
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
maybe they're trying to be funny? even as one of the in-the-grand-scheme-of-things few people who have actually purchased a charli xcx album i don't recall whatsoever what "vroom vroom" for example sounds like. i'm pretty sure someone might have mashed it with the classic "broom broom i'm in me mum's car" meme but even then i can't remember anything about it
― dyl, Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
they = whoever wrote that feature
the link to the tiktok collection is informative
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
xp I think it’s meant to be a callback to a paragraph at the beginning of the article:
Then she went to a raucous party at a bar in the East Village with a handful of friends—something that might seem like leisure time to many but, when you’re Charli XCX, it’s impossible to attain blissful off-the-clock anonymity at a drag show in the middle of Pride Week. The gays know her face, even when it’s obscured by sunglasses. They, or shall I say we, are a big part of Charli’s fiery and devout fan base, and love to support an inventive pop underdog whose music rarely scales the charts but is ubiquitous in all their safe spaces.
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Thursday, 8 August 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
"the gays know her face" sounds like the start of a calvin klein fragrance commercial
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 8 August 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
i think elements of the piece are intended to be tongue in cheek. bobby finger is a host of the who weekly podcast and that show adopts a similar tone
― monotony, Thursday, 8 August 2019 03:04 (four years ago) link
i think also that a certain sub-set of charli xcx fans would consider "vroom vroom" to be one of her most iconic and important songs. it sort of represents the moment that she broke away from the punk-in-a-nightie sucker era and started to work with pc music and sophie
― monotony, Thursday, 8 August 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
that was definitely a critical judgment of midtown manhattan, not of charli or her artistic footprint imo
― untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 8 August 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
lol their link to the new katy perry song currently links to this https://youtu.be/fcruFW6dr9I which is not the real song
― ufo, Friday, 9 August 2019 05:38 (four years ago) link
― untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, August 8, 2019 9:22 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
well that's a relief
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 9 August 2019 10:43 (four years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/z9dpnrse3ef31.jpg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 9 August 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
And like Eminem, he’s from the technical school of rap, where the height of artistry is cramming as many syllables and as much internal rhyme into each bar as possible, nuance be damned.
There is more to the "artistry" of the so-called “technical school of rap”--ie MCs that can actually rap--than “cramming as many syllables and as much internal rhyme into each bar as possible.”
How are we supposed to respond to an album that often reads like a suicide note?
Err, given recent events...not like this?
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 10 August 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
Eminem is a prog rapper. It all makes sense now.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 10 August 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
unrelated, but because Pitchfork is the only place I keep seeing the name, can someone explain the moniker "Megan Thee Stallion" to me? I mean, this person ids as a woman, correct? Is this a joke I'm not getting?
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 12 August 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
i mean it's pretty easy to search the origins of someone's stage name as it's usually something that people get asked about but here you go: https://www.thefader.com/2019/05/20/megan-thee-stallion-fever-cover-story
― ufo, Monday, 12 August 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
Saved you a click: it's a Ween reference.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 12 August 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
Megan got the nickname “Thee Stallion” in high school — stallion being a standard Texas title applied to tall, attractive women — before she ever laid down one bar. That changed when she got to college.
I guess I've never heard this word being figuratively used to describe anything other than male strength and virility but, hey, I've never been to Texas
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 12 August 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
In the "The Essence" Nas tells AZ he's going to bring "one of my baddest stallions" to the Deniece Williams concert that night. I've always assumed, given the context, that he meant a woman but I've never been quite sure...
― Number None, Monday, 12 August 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
yeah that's common
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 August 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
better known as Megan Thee Stallion (pronounced "Megan The Stallion"[4][5]),
kids these days.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 12 August 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
lol paul does this help
https://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/megan-thee-stallion-press-photo-2018-cr-DHinez-billboard-1548.jpg
― j., Monday, 12 August 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
Never thought I’d have to tell a bunch of white internet hipsters to listen to *MORE* UGK but here we are
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 12 August 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/nathan-fielder-signs-hbo-deal-new-comedy-pilot-in-the-works/Does posting to this thread every time Pfork runs a story with no connection to the music world make me like those Hugo voters who choose “No Winner” in certain categories as an objection to the existence of the category itself or is this a battle I stand some chance of actually winning
― what else are you all “over” (Champiness), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 09:00 (four years ago) link
Very happy for Fielder, ofc, as should probably be expected from a member of Condé Nast’s desired readership demographic
― what else are you all “over” (Champiness), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link
Would rather see a Nathan For You headline on Pitchfork than "Some Band was a Question On Jeopardy" for the 99999th time
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
What is Death Cab For Cutie?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
that's "A Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band Song was a Question On Jeopardy" for the 99998th time
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link