Music Criticism in Video Form

okay, maybe "abysmal" is too strong a word. how about "not really worth reading unless i'm really bored and stuck somewhere and there is nothing else to read". that's more like it.

yeah. i just wish more magazines covered different bands and published more longform stuff. the world doesn't need twelve more articles on She & Him imo

wax poetics is great usually

― the dj screwtape letters (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, June 9, 2010 5:58 PM (3 minutes ago)

i've heard ppl say that here; i should buy a copy

Without wanting to big up my own show, I think Jordan is right to say that probably what made it more palatable was that it was in dialogue form - I think if music crit lacks anything by and large it's a sense of real life interaction between different viewpoints. One dude talking into a camera doesn't solve that. Most of my intentions* for the show were always to make it more like ILM-on-TV rather than Pitchfork-on-TV.

(*word chosen intentionally)

http://sharetv.org/images/kenny_everett_video_show_uk-show.jpg

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PXwS1IJVmVA/0.jpg

http://www.tvcream.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/kennyeverett1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDVCc34AXI

Decibel's the only music magazine I really love. i also read Pitchfork, and sometimes the New York Times and Village Voice music sections. and some blogs. but i've been looking at stuff in other music magazines at the bookstore lately and not too much appealed to me

ksh, you need to all get up on this: http://thequietus.com

there was a short-lived rock-crit show on VH-1 circa 1995: "Four on the Floor" starring some ex-colleagues of mine from r0lling $tone etc.

brad nelson is that bookshelf from ikea

http://genius.com/discussions/138517-Anthony-fantano-on-white-people-and-hip-hop

*spends a moment pondering whether/how much he really wants to watch someone named Anthony Fantano talk about white people and hip-hop*

Why do so many people who make youtube videos of themselves talking talk in that exact same "I am a smart guy recording a video of myself" voice?

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lol i didn't realize ilm had a thread about this guy much less a user who was actually excited about his potential (?)

i also doubt very much whether i want to watch this video

woof @ this thread

markers is a prophet

i gotta remove that vlog from vimeo

that bookshelf was from target

this guy has gotten gradually more insane over the past 5 years, its been 'interesting' to watch. is this what being a music critic does to you?

does weird me out that this dude showed up right around the time i stopped writing rock crit on the regular. the game needed an anthony ______o to annoy it.

You all will remember this day when this dude takes over the world.

― ksh, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 1:14 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dude's awesome.

― ksh, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 12:02 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anthOny______o

i find that i cannot watch his videos

not only are they painful to watch but his irrtating voice and facial expressions ricochet around in my mind long after, that irritating false authoritativeness that seems to come solely from assuming he can get to the "correct" analysis of something because he is "smart"

i'm just thankful youtube seems to have figured out somehow to reduce the frequency of his videos in my search results after accidentally clicking on them a few times

obv this is comically vain, but it's like..."gee to make financial sense of being a full-time rock crit you'd have to be comfortable making big, obnoxious faux-quantitative evaluations of things that you will be increasingly not the target audience for as you age, believe i'll find new fields to plow and just stick to the occasional rock-related blog post and being a dink on ilx" meanwhile the The Dark Half was going on in Connecticut

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croup, you can seriously stuff the idea that you left rock criticism because you were somehow "above" it

i thought i was throwing in enough self-depreciation and acknowledgement of financial truths to avoid looking like that's what i'm doing, but guess not

i mean i worked as a gossip blogger for a couple years after, i'm not saying that's "above" rockcrit

word

but do allow me the vanity of seeing this dillpickle as like, a version of myself that didn't get over the idea of rating the rhymes of teenagers being a life purpose

accent on the word "rating"

lest it sound like i don't respect music journalism

or more thoughtful critical appreciations of work

i suspect that a substantial measure measure of AF's success owes to his appearance and tone. he has the face of children's show host, unremarkable yet extremely pliable, prone to rubbery, theatrical exaggeration. his expressions seem not expressive of an inner state, but contrived in an actorly manner to illustrate this or that point. while he speaks in a blandly authoritative manner, he's by no means deep thinker, and he throws in plenty of goofy asides to let you know that he's a "fun guy". all of this makes his videos easy to follow and soothing in the manner of crap network television.

oh he could definitely be gene shalit someday

if submitted to looping videos of fantano reviews i would admit to anything, it's absolute t o r t u r e to sit through, like get to the fucking point already - probably his audience enjoys lenghty hyperactive youtube hosts/channels more than i do

can easily see why it's popular though, seems to me it has a very calculated appeal like sean parkers international hipster playlist on spotify

if this is "popular" it's as good an argument for wiping out human beings as any

i suspect that a substantial measure measure of AF's success owes to his appearance and tone. he has the face of children's show host, unremarkable yet extremely pliable, prone to rubbery, theatrical exaggeration. his expressions seem not expressive of an inner state, but contrived in an actorly manner to illustrate this or that point.

not realizing where i was i assumed "af" meant arcade fire. still works kinda

while people praise ebert for all his warm-hearted blogging and support of the indie scene etc, dude got famous being a nonthreatening, amiable nerd who showed sincere respect for the medium while keeping it light and telling people what was worth seeing with his thumb. fantano fits the mold perfectly.

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― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, February 20, 2015 11:18 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha ok that even might be a LITTLE unfair to fantano, of whom i am NO FAN

Yeah, I mean, I kid but you can't really hate on Fantano

Dude found his own lane wherein he actually reviews for an audience that exists instead of the less than 1000 people on planet earth who give a fuck about "rockism" and "pazz and jop" and Wussy

Like he's not trying to get ALL UP IN OUR BIZ pitching clips to Fader or the Oxford American or whatever. Dude exists in his own bubble

a LITTLE unfair to fantano, of whom i am NO FAN

no fan o'?

Fantano? Not a fan.

lotta room for $$$ in a bubble

Wow, I definitely started this thread by posting video with the Needle Drop dude in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFo0j945vB8

thanks to deej's twitter i see this guy has some kind of latin-borat komedy r&b alter ego

most youth internet culture (aside from the racists) just pass me by w/o any impression but this little dingus makes me so angry