OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

I for one welcome a future in which our leaders are determined by pop stars

yes, this is a worrying turn away from the high-minded debate that normally decides the electoral process

maybe she can help flip Kansas

or missouri. or both!

I am hearing that women are dumping somewhat conservative men at accelerated rates so that they can better relate to Taylor Swift songs

iirc Taylor Swift dates guys with Fuck the Patriarchy keychains

jfc
https://x.com/perpetua/status/1727145778072948985?s=20

Not a piece of music writing really

And it's a fairly standard "I'm noticing something you guys aren't" thing. Which is annoying, but then again I don't know who Tate McRae is.

no not a piece of writing per se, but it is a kind of superficial analysis that sends me over the edge.

he's saying we're being suffocated by something that is invisible to us?

Which Gen Z artists is he talking about?

Taylor Swift, I assume

We cannot know because we are too old

sorry, mis-read that. He mentions Troye Slivin or whatever

He mentions____________or whatever

huh??

These artists make music in frequencies that can't be heard if you're over 25.

and also they're SUFFOCATING me

Like, Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo come immediately to mind as “massively successful” Gen Z artists who are surely invisible to no one…

old people don’t know who the musicians are that young people are listening to? shocking!

Can’t we just ignore him?

It worked on here

sadly no longer an option due to the theory of Perpetua motion

inside out, outside in

Not writing but I don’t think we have a worst music-related podcast thread.

Dissect from Ringer - the episode on “Nosetalgia” starts out by explaining ‘nose - which you use to snort cocaine’ and nostalgia, followed quickly by ‘Johnson and Johnson makes baby powder, used to cut cocaine.’

I had to bail at that point.

I mean, what did you honestly expect from a 56 minute podcast about one Pusha T song

wait so there's a Pusha T song about coke?

Bandsplain and 60 Songs That Explain The '90s aren't bad, I expected more of that than 7th grade essay.

Why does 60 Songs That Explain the 90s have 111 episodes?

the '90s never ended

There's 52 episodes about the "girls who Abercrombie and Fitch" song

Similarly I had the “Switched on Pop” podcast recommended to me after the dudes treated some basic double entendres in a Weeknd song like rich and evocative symbolism

“And I dropped it after I heard the dudes” I mean

lol Halfway

woof: https://www.spin.com/2023/12/album-of-the-year-killer-mike-michael/

Layers upon layers of stink in there.

Michael is for Killer Mike's given name

whoa

oh my god what the fuck is that

what blathering dreck!

lmao that suuuucks

That's sad.

tempted to start a poll for everyone's favourite line in this piece

1st reaction was OK dad, 2nd reaction was this is overwrought and underwritten at the same time how is this dude a publisher, then he dissed the pitchfork person and things got exciting for a minute but he denies us a decent rant and just gestures at the bootstraps party line of his class which is honestly a bit of a letdown, he clearly sees Mike as a fellow capitalist striver

he definitely writes like the kind of guy who inherited his dad's porn empire and published nude pics of teenagers to sell his own magazine while also sexually harassing his employees

https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvZGJhXC8xNjQyNC0xNTI1OC0xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6MjAwLCJ3aWR0aCI6MjAwfX19

"I’m not a fan of most rap, and of what I do like I prefer old school to new."

well, fuck, that didn't work out the way I wanted it to

I think Omni Magazine was his passion project, not Spin. In it’s 80s-90s heyday Spin was essential reading

I like getting a peek behind the curtain and seeing the failupwardsons that run everything now and how little they bring to the table in terms of ideas and how their one ideological move is always meritocracy which is refuted by their own existence

Last September, the rapper Killer Mike was DJing hip-hop classics like Snoop Dogg’s Ain’t No Fun at a music festival afterparty in Louisville, Kentucky. “The inspiration for the night’s set is freedom of speech, so say what the fuck you want!” he told a crowd of hundreds. Killer Mike, half of the duo Run the Jewels, is known for speaking out against police brutality and racial injustice, as well as campaigning for Bernie Sanders.

But this night’s set was co-sponsored by Stand Together Music, an organization backed by the libertarian billionaire Charles Koch, who made his fortune in fossil fuels. Other sponsors of the party included the free-speech group Fire (which has received millions of dollars in contributions from the Charles G Koch charitable foundation), as well as the music outlet Spin, an official partner of Stand Together Music.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/07/koch-family-stand-together-music

lmao that suuuucks

I feel bad for the section editor, who presumably / hopefully cringed the whole way through that process, starting when Bob messaged one day and was like "This is the best rap record in decades, I'll write about it for album of the year!" ... and from that point there was no stopping it.

Maybe it didn't go that way, but you can picture it.

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