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

This one is annoying because there is something there in terms of general concept which may be worth exploring, by somebody else.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a28904211/2003-to-2012-forgotten-music-era/

also xpost to 00s poll threads

Great idea, terrible examples.

wow

How did he write this entire thing and not notice that his entire thesis boils down to "for every artist from this time period with multiple hits that people remember, there are one- or no-hit wonders that everyone has forgotten"?

a cursory listen to old episodes of american top 40 would reveal etc. etc.

I thought it would be about indie/blog-era gems that are lost because you only had the mp3, post-cd and pre-streaming.

"Can you believe the world has forgotten KT Tunstall?"

Um... yes? Pretty easily, in fact? (And I liked that song, too)

I have a similar problem with Alternative Nation, it always feeds me weird Van Halen oriented ckickbait

Lol if only this guy had heard of the "studio groups" of the 60s

I finally read that Alternative Nation link and am I the only one who now REALLY wants to follow the writing career of Brett Buchanan?

Xpost Like bruh what if i told you Question Mark and the Mysterians didn't have an illustrious career

I’d like to believe this started life as a spiked LA Weekly listicle and was hurriedly punched up into paragraphs for prestige publication

that Deleted Years piece reads like a very ineffective attempt gee along nought-stalgia*

*(c)2019 frame casual

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/live-review-joanna-newsom-philadelphia/

Ah yes, a charming evening of career-spanning ragtime

While her dress positioned her somewhere between the angelic nymph persona she’s come to occupy over the years and Greco-Roman goddess of warfare, her sincerity in the face of noticeable nervousness revealed Newsom to be less of the stately elvish Homer of my generation’s dreams and more a spellbindingly human artist who proved the City of Brotherly Love to be true to its name.

Consequence of no editor dot net

Ok is this a review or Ode to a Grecian Urn

that stately elvish homer in full

https://i.giphy.com/media/z2l1cinVfSyiY/giphy.gif

maybe Newsom rearranged all of her music into ragtime

Having read that review, I didn't realize DiCrescenzo founded a school of journalism

The use of "ragtime" (and "rococo ragtime" in the review itself! though that seems ever so slightly more accurate tbh) almost made me wonder if there was a bot-generated component to this review. But googling around finds that a number of reviews of Divers include it on a list of styles that inform the album, presumably referring to Sapokanikan. Which, I guess. but pretty random for that descriptor to get linked to that song, let alone artist.

Highly recommend dipping into that reviewer's oeuvre. She has a similarly florid review of Roskilde 2019, rife with pull-quotes for this thread.

i may be just tired of the del rey overhype moment but something about this one really bugged me
https://hyperallergic.com/515894/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell/

Internet phenomenon turned Saturday Night Live laughing stock, her sustained popularity has perplexed those who would prefer to see brilliant women fail... based on her new album, she deserves comparison to the heavyweights of American mythology like Joni Mitchell and Joan Didion, Ernest Hemingway and Bob Dylan, Silvia Plath and Carole King.

I mean, in the context of "I am profoundly uninterested in what this person has to say with their art" I am pretty okay with comparing LDR to Hemingway and Dylan

well yeah i'm there with you but why not throw in lars von trier and evelyn waugh while you're at it

Those comparisons are absurd

hemingway and dylan were both brilliant women

Bob Dylan as Cate Blanchett

just like lana del rey

who is Silvia Plath?

i think peter laughner, also a brilliant woman, once wrote a song about her

Del Rey’s latest album is a culmination of the artist’s last four records, a singularity that allows her various personae to converge into higher form

not just one persona but personae

xp tbf, the unedited version of that quote makes it clear that there's some space between "brilliant women" and that breathless lineup of people you can write your senior report on

"various" as an adjective bothers me in most uses.

who is Silvia Plath?

it's a typo: https://www.mixcloud.com/silvio-plath/stream/

That same year, Del Rey stopped performing in front of the American flag, viewing it as “inappropriate” for the Trump era. She changed her backdrop to a screen of static instead, a multifaceted commentary on the “white noise” of American politics and the dissociative phenomenon of living in the world’s wealthiest country, which also happens to jail children.

ohhhhhh, *that* Silvio Plath

Joni Mitchell and Joan Didion, Ernest Hemingway and Bob Dylan, Silvia Plath and Carole King

all spellbindingly human

Who are six people who've never been in my kitchen?

That same year, Del Rey stopped performing in front of the American flag, viewing it as “inappropriate” for the Trump era. She changed her backdrop to a screen of static instead, a multifaceted commentary on the “white noise” of American politics and the dissociative phenomenon of living in the world’s wealthiest country, which also happens to jail children.

like i dunno if that's so much multifaceted as it is... monofaceted?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, September 11, 2019 11:15 AM (three minutes ago)

more "dumb as fuck" faceted

extremely appropriate for the trump era, tbf

has perplexed those who would prefer to see brilliant women fail

love this construction, where the fact that everyone agrees the subject is brilliant is presented as a given

also the strawman internet chud bamboozled by LDR ascension when his druthers are, as a rule, to see brilliant women fail
imagining a masculinist america's funniest home video special where a parade of women in mortarboards, lab coats and astronaut suits keep stepping on rakes and slipping on banana peels

ove this construction, where the fact that everyone agrees the subject is brilliant is presented as a given

― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open),

Don't see the big deal?

"Brilliant" is a cliche, though.

Norman Fucking Rockwell! slaps in all the right places.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

someone needed to slap the keyboard out of that writer's hand

couple of people in here really preferring to see brilliant women fail right now.

or maybe it’s that some people love imposing brilliance on vapid people because they’re pretty

i do like seeing someone fail now and then but i'm not super picky about who