pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

holy crap. now i want to play twisted metal again.
it's definitely been a while.

In their defense, that "OMG, I'm old" feeling is still "new to you" when it happens.
xp

i've long accepted as a gen xer that we will go directly from obsessing about millennials taking over the world and what does it all mean??? to millennials grapple with middle age and what does it all mean??

i guess the early part of my life was baby boomers grapple with middle age what does it all mean??

yeah I'm totally fine with gen x being the middle child of generations

old millennials feel like a middle child vs the break that came from young millennials ... we looked up to gen xers .. look how much time i wasted on this stupid site taking bad advice from them

How Many Times Have You Played The Big & Rich CD That You Bought Because Of ILX?

lolz

a decade and a half early to the 'yee haw agenda'

I would pointedly ignore a person who "worships at the altar of self-love"

― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, March 6, 2019 7:46 AM (

The church of self-love is such a holy place to be

big & rich what a time it was

lmao

it’s so self-indulgently navel gazey nostalgic to me i don’t like it. ‘listening to mobb deep and white pony’... so?? no one cares

when ur 19 and you precociously talk about what music you listen to >>>> when you’re 39 and nostalgically talk about what music you precociously talked about listening to at 19

Well here you go then: OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

i feel you, flop, i complained about something like this on another thread recently...but also, i mean ... it's just his twitter. not like they published an essay about this.

also if this bugs you enuf, you should def unfollow that dude because there's more to come

it’s so self-indulgently navel gazey nostalgic to me i don’t like it. ‘listening to mobb deep and white pony’... so?? no one cares

― flopson, Friday, March 8, 2019 4:50 PM (thirty-three minutes ago)

Yeah, it's almost as if the writers equate themselves to be as, or daresay even more, interesting than the artists they write and pretend to care about.

It's almost as if they think their own writing is a better piece of art than its subject.

It's almost as if I needed a good reminder why I hated them to begin with.

Thank you, flops.

it’s just fuckin twitter and you all need to chill out

like some people have message boards where they wank. others have twitter

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I'm pretty sure I only have two people blocked on Twitter and they're Joanna The Scammer and Ian Cohen

speaking of which it's the ten year anniversary of Love vs Money in 2 days!

Ian's Twitter definitely has a tone of "I am into this thing, this is very me, look at me be self-aware of how on-brand I am being." (To be fair, that actually describes a lot of people on Twitter, he just seems a bit more overt about it.)

whoa why'd you block joanne the scammer, fgti???? :-(

every old millenial/gen x p4k writer constantly makes tweets like this and it’s like... that’s how time works

????? https://t.co/tMVMpg3vB5

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) March 10, 2019

I think today’s review of the Crosby album is very well written, btw. (I’m not familiar enough with the album to have an opinion about the score.)

if i could only remember my reviewer's name

Idk why I blocked Joanna! I blocked her so long ago. I don’t use Twitter anymore anyway. Bad discourse.

On Facebook I’ve blocked about 25 people though— abusive ex-lover, two stalkers, a former friend who I adore but was dangerous and threatening when he went off his meds, a friend-turned-Trumper, a really shitty woman who hated me and I hated her back. The rest are Zion*sts.

Everything Not Saved has been hyped as a kind of concept record to be footnoted in the Green New Deal: “In Degrees” and “Exits” could pass as torch songs for Mother Earth (“Now the sea eats the sky/But they say that it’s a lie”), yet there’s never any real sense of urgency to Foals’ crowd-pleasing Coachella-core: It’s less “the ice age is coming” and more “Iceage is up next.”

Idk what bugs me more about this particular dis, the forced internal linking/SEO juice via a totally unrelated band, the "wordplay," or the fact that the premise doesn't even make sense — in what world are Iceage *above* Foals on a festival bill?

I just thought they would be on a separate stage, which is why you would leave Foals to go see them.

in my head "up next" implies the same stage but anyway my real point is that it's a clunky zinger

You're probably right :)

At least they didn't make a "Clean Foal" joke

definitely in the first draft

also, uh, climate change = the opposite of “the ice age is coming”

but the sun's zooming in

In Denmark, climate change might definitely mean the ice age will be coming. If it weakens the gulf stream.

that david crosby album is fucking amazing

like some people have message boards where they wank. others have twitter

i literally come here to talk about the music, not myself.

let's kick it about #croz

Rappers Keep Putting Me on Blast for My Misspelled Rejection Letters, But I Get It

I have no idea what this sentence means

lol skimming the article it looks like rappers keep tweeting out the writer's email responses to their requests for reviews/coverage

it's a clumsy headline but the piece is amusing

"keep tweeting" = "it's happened twice"

To be fair that’s probably more than it happens to most people

Are “rejection letters” a common thing in music journalism?

it's a nice courtesy to tell a PR person that you aren't interested in xyz artist bcuz it's at least an acknowledgement of the PR person's existence

it's always appreciated. plus it's a way to make sure i will stop writing you ad infinitum. gotta tell the client something and "didn't answer me" sounds much worse than "said no".

I'm very bad about this. I delete about 90 percent of publicist emails without replying to them. That said, most of those are shotgun-blast emails where all they're doing is sending out a new album and saying "Hope you can write about this!" When someone takes the time to say "Hey, I read this thing you wrote and for that reason, I think you'll like my artist!" I will reply.

i often start with spray-and-pray and then narrow key folks with personal emails after; seems the best way to get broad work out and then follow more precisely afterward. In general, i try to find the balance between being enough of a pain in the ass that people feel compelled to respond but not so much of a pain in the ass that I'm actually a pain in the ass.