pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

gonna get bought by Paste

xxp there's definitely a case for it

the truth of casual music listening is that if you're only halfway paying attention, you associate songs with the time in your life when you first heard them or listened to them, not with a decade. my guess was that the partygoer who did the Warren G chronological flub first heard the song the most in the early 00s while in college, hanging out with friends who would play music that they knew along with new stuff, and it all blended together into an amorphous "music from college, which was the 2000s" blob

The G-Funk Era never ended

"Regulate"
"Jeremy"
"Longview" (or any of the other singles from "Dookie")
"Rhythm is a Dancer"
"I Like to Move It"

shit,
"Rhythm of the Night"

Twin Peaks theme
Protect Your Neck
Torn

Shook Ones but you shock everyone by choosing Part I

Chief Keef, born in 1995

I don't like

Lightning Crashes
Nookie
Send Me On My Way

lol Keyes

Shook Ones but you shock everyone by choosing Part I

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, February 5, 2024 3:16 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol a+ joke for those who speak the dunn language

“All-Star”
“Semi-Charmed Life”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKncMmq5uNw

My serious answer is Crystal Waters, unfortunate title but prob the best of the decade

Pitchfork’s latter-day list put it at 108, it seems, but among their top 30 house tracks of the decade

Robin S - Show Me Love
The KLF - 3 a.m. Eternal

XTAL

Unlike most decades, the 90s had more than one good song.

"fake bullshit for clicks"

― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, February 5, 2024 1:28 PM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Calcified doctrinaire conventional wisdom is a way more tedious threat to discourse than “oh no we might upset people by having a different opinion and it generates revenue”

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gameshows/images/f/f5/Celebrity_Family_Feud_Big_Red_Strike.png

no youre right we should all be on our knees praying in genuflection to religious idols of your interpretation of the Correct History

no youre right "Dancing on My Own" is actually better than "Be My Baby" now because reasons.

this vintage d33j/Whiney beef brought 2 u courtesy of Alka-Seltzer, plop plop fizz fizz

Is "Dancing On My Own" considered a particularly bad song? It's one of Billy Idol's best imo.

I like when he brings Monica from Friends up on stage in the video...

Is that the one that goes, "I'm tired of dancing here all by myself, tonight I wanna dance with someone else"?

No it's the one that goes "ohhhh I wanna dance with somebody"

They're sharing a dance they call loneliness
but it's better than dancing alone

Dancing On My Self-Own

Refuse to actually read the fucking thing to give em the clicks, but back to covering Kanye I see.

Damn they actually did a review

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn’t have been surprised to see him pop up as a news item or whatever, but didn’t expect to see a lead review (for whatever “lead review” means in 2024 as opposed to 2008 or w/e). Was hoping that level of actual engagement with his music had passed.

It’s actually a pretty thoughtful (if somewhat dry) review of an album I’ll never listen to.

i've only heard a few tracks and the review is if anything far too kind to those

scrolling the Sunday review, and I'm getting a pop-up ad for The Pitchfork Review podcast, which hasn't put out any episodes since both of its co-hosts were laid off last month

Eerie.

Looks like they finally updated the masthead, though not anyone's titles; the highest position is deputy managing editor.

The reviews section seems like business as usual. But if you just read the news items it looks like Jazz Monroe and Matthew Strauss are the only people left working.

Beyonce fans now harassing N@dine Sm!th because the genre in the review is listed as "pop/r&b" and they're saying she should have changed it to country, even though she's explained that is apparently not possible w/ the way Pitchfork is set up to assign a solitary genre to an artist in the database

That seems dumb and short-sighted on the site’s part

Stans are weird about genre. Taylor Swift fans harassed the New York Times over Jon Caramanica's review of Folklore because he is, according to his bio, the paper's pop music critic and was therefore biased against an "indie/alternative" album.

Maybe Beyoncé’ and Taylor just have unusually unhinged fans

the idea of Swift being considered an “indie/alternative” artist is more a testament to the uselessness of genre in the current era.

It’s funny that they likely tagged her that way because they started covering her circa Reputation, so even their retroactive reviews of albums like her ST carry that tag.

(And yeah, I don’t understand why a genre tag has to be tied to an artist, rather assigned to each review individually)

I think it was because Apple Music categorized Folklore that way? It's just a weird way to think about how genre works, as though she was doing something so radically opposed to what she'd done before that it would require special expertise to analyze, rather than just using a slightly different set of sonic signifiers.

It’s funny that they likely tagged her that way because they started covering her circa Reputation, so even their retroactive reviews of albums like her ST carry that tag.

― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Monday, February 19, 2024 9:41 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If you're talking about Pitchfork, it tags Swift "Pop/R&B." FWIW, I think these are the only genre tags that exist:

-Electronic
-Experimental
-Folk/Country
-Global
-Jazz
-Metal
-Pop/R&B
-Rap
-Rock

But some artists get multiple tags. For instance, Carrie Underwood is both Folk/Country and Pop/R&B. So is Anais Mitchell.

So I guess it would make sense to use that double label for both Swift and Beyonce, too.

Right, my point was that if they started covering her at the beginning, she likely would’ve been tagged folk/country (or whatever)… but they didn’t, so even her country albums aren’t tagged that way

It’s weird they didn’t give at least her the double tag that Carrie Underwood has, though…