idk how you are trying to frame subjective reactions as objectively wrong
― .\ /. (dayo), Monday, November 29, 2010 6:44 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
we can stand on two sides of a mountain, describe it from different perspectives, but it doesnt mean there isnt a mountain in front of us
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
if you want to make an argument that this record rehashes kanye's past glories be my guest
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Even "devil in a new dress" is being mischarcterized as a retread -- for one kanye never employed soul samples in that fashion on his album -- and even the soul sample is used as a launching point for something more grandiose & elaborate
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at everyone shaking their fingers at deej for questioning lex's motives after lex posted this upthread:
kanye review FILED.
i'm not letting people get away with calling this good-but-flawed, this is a HORRIBLE album that i hated more with each listen
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, November 22, 2010 4:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
jeeezus your mountain analogy was stupid the first time around, no need to remind us of it again
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Albums**
Deej I'm gonna hold you to this "sometimes generalizations can be positive in their reductiveness" thing cuz it's retarded
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
man maybe this is the nantucket sleighride of hip hop
― kl0pper city in the ghetto (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I would like to hear an argument for how this is the same sonic territory tho
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 29, 2010 6:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^^LOL. mad ironic
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
im gonna hold you to never making any broad generalizations about a record ever
― .\ /. (dayo), Monday, November 29, 2010 6:46 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
***sigh***
ok ill put it another way. if you want to make an effective argument & convert people that your way of seeing things is worthwhile, it helps to be able to find *common ground* so ppl think you are actually evaluating the work in question & dont have some popist (for example) ax to grind. Yes, of course everything ever is subjective, but then why even post on this message board? why not just read mp3 aggregators
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Alright fine -- your generalization is wrong and not positive. How's that?
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Deej is right
Also dayo should step up if he thinks he's wrong
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:46 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
how does this bring my motives into question when the content of that post backs up what got printed?
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
review as response to reviews instead of response to record
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a HORRIBLE album that i hated more with each listenthis is a HORRIBLE album that i hated more with each listenthis is a HORRIBLE album that i hated more with each listenthis is a HORRIBLE album that i hated more with each listen
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like a response to the record to me
lmao @ the navel gazing line, tho
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not gonna argue over whether or not this album retreads past kanye glories cause I think the 2 basic premises of deej's argument is wrong:
you hurt your own credibility in criticizing a record, even if yr right, when u refuse to ascribe anything that could be seen as a positive quality to record that may in fact have some redeeming qualities. a much more damning critique = pursuing truth more than rejecting every strategy as a failure simply bcuz you decided the album has failed― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:20 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmarki think letting your feelings for the work as a whole / the critical response to the work overwhelm your ability to accurately describe the lp in question in a critical manner is more dishonest― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:31 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:20 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
i think letting your feelings for the work as a whole / the critical response to the work overwhelm your ability to accurately describe the lp in question in a critical manner is more dishonest
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:31 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
basically because the argument is based on 1. questioning the motives of the reviewer and 2. claiming that there are objectively definable aspects to this album that all crits can agree on. as for the 1st, deej has the luxury here because lex has been an active contributor to this thread and deej has had the benefit of reading his posts - but I really don't see how this impacts the reading of the review itself, which is entirely self-contained and capable of being understood without referencing lex's contributions to this thread.
as for point 2... this is the deej point that deej has been harping on that has completely mystified me. people bring different perspectives to music, and I don't know how you can say that one review accurately describes a record whereas another one doesn't - the farthest you can go imo is that you agree with one description but disagree with one. using terms like 'accurately' is disingenuous imo
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
If Im listening to mozart & i say it has some chill breakbeats, im lying. not to blow your mind here
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
using terms like 'accurately' is 'accurate' imo
as for his 'motives,' its not like im presuming his motives, hes made his motives completely known: he doesnt like the record & hes willing to be dishonest about its contents -- or at the very least, manipulative -- in order to make the case seem overwhelming against it. it hurts his own credibility with me
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
why are you saying he's being dishonest
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
and you know as well as I do that using a term like 'accurately' implies that there is some kind of 'correct' way of hearing this album, which... I would like to see you defend
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
because i dont believe that, if he was evaluating this record in a way which seeks to describe it as truthfully as possible, he would misrepresent its contents as i believe he has done here
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
there are no 'correct' ways to evaluate an album, but many many incorrect ones
I still don't understand how you're employing terms like 'accurately' and 'truthfully' in this argument. what is the 'truthful' way of describing this album and why does it apply to other people
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i cant give a rhetorical example. you have to provide a statement, and i can say on a sliding scale where i think it might lie. much of alex's review is otm. much of it is ott.
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
this is, obv, an imprecise science. but some statements can definitely strike me as pretty much 'wrong'
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
deej as i said before, throwing around terms like "dishonest" just makes me put you in a box with all the newspaper commenters of people not to be taken seriously - i mean if you believe i actually like this album more than i'm letting on then i guess carry on, it's not as if rational arguments or logic will persuade you otherwise...?
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
no, i think that you let your dislike for the record affect your honest evaluation of what the record actually is.
im not saying "be more positive!" im saying be more right
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
wrong to you or wrong to everybody
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
not that i think im above doing the same, occasionally
deej it's not a good look to claim that there's a 'right' or 'truthful' or 'accurate' way of evaluating this record and then refusing to let everybody in on what is in the magic box that you see but everybody else doesn't
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
― .\ /. (dayo), Monday, November 29, 2010 7:17 PM (5 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
wrong to anyone i care to have a conversation with? if you think the 808s on the last Chicago Symphony record were too loud we might have problems
likewise, i still dont understand what on this record sounds like a 'rehash' of older kanye material -- certainly there are some kanye-esque moments, but none of this feels like a stylistic retread in any real sense
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
well you're the one arguing it's BIG and IMPORTANT despite not liking it very much so uhhh physician heal thyself
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
& you and lex have still failed to make a case for that statement
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, November 29, 2010 7:19 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
george bush was big and important & i didnt care for him either, but i didnt pretend he didnt exist
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I still don't understand deej's position. Why does he persist in arguing for virtues he only half believes in himself? Why is he defending the efficacy of other critics' arguments when almost everyone here has politely acknowledged them?
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I know we're guys and lots of us don't give a shit about sports and this kind of discussion substitutes but -- well.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
if lex can make a reasonable argument that this is a rehash, then my point no longer applies in this particular case. i dont see why he hasnt done so
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I would like to hear that too -- from anyone
― jagger reupholstered my pussy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
for the same reason i haven't responded individually to each of the people who've commented on the actual piece
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
in that case, ill continue to maintain it was a dishonest tactic attempting to overwhelm the reader w/ criticisms of the record that arent based in the actual content of the object being discussed
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:19 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
see again you're conflating 'empirical sonic evidence' w/ 'subjective critical response' - nobody is saying that kanye is singing through an airplane jet engine for the majority of this album, or that kanye west is actually from polynesia, or that he has three penises, or w/e
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
itt dayo finds out why everybody on ILX finds deej frustrating to argue with
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
its my subjective critical response that kanye has three penises.
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
whether a record is a 'rehash' or not is a more abstract characteristic, certainly, but its certainly something that i think people discussing music could acknowledge if it were actually happening. we might think its successful, or a failure, but just denying it when its there, or claiming it when its not? or at the very least, not providing an explanation for such a statement when called on it?
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
ok having not actually listened to this album in over a week (and i'm not attached to the hard drive my mp3s are on atm) so sans detail - it sounded like a graduation rehash most of all. specifically a lot of it sounded like a way inferior spin on "flashing lights" with the rich melody, strings, polished synths etc. pretty conservative throughout - if this is a musical statement it's far more about kanye going back to trad hip-hop post-808s (which he said all along eh was going to do), not going further and further out into experimentation. and a few attention-grabbing samples used unimaginatively.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
still smh @ dishonest - it's too hysterical even to be annoyed by, and it's too obvious that deej is reaching for the word that's the worst insult for critics
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link