rap critics who try to write w/ the lyrical flair of rappers almost always fall off that tightrope into total worthless bullshit imo
― internet somebody (some dude), Friday, 23 March 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
I think he needs to mention that some people compare Action Bronson to Ghostface Killah.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
definitely prefer the days of "shit, cat" to this
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
That review is hilarious, like Eddie Murphy's Delirious. It's meritorious on the basis that it is merit-less, a new leader in nadir whose meaning grows fainter the more that it feints it, because you can't fake this.
Sorry, just had to spit a little.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
I think the review starts off a little rough, but explains AB's appeal pretty well as it moves along. I think the ghostface comparison is getting a little played at this point. Yeah we get it, it needs to be mentioned, but as a focus its a little hack at this point.
― Regional Tug (irrational), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
Too many comparisons to GhostdiniHis prose getting tangled like linguini
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
So I actually swung by the Pitchfork offices yesterday. Very spacious!
Also someone pretended to be me last week to get into the Pitchfork day party at SXSW. That was amusing to discover.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
not excusing the review but a lot of the first half is the reviewer interpolating AB's lyrics into the text of the review. you may know this, you may not.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
that kinda makes it worse
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
so AB is backpack rap?
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad that p4k is going back to mindmeltingly terrible after a few years of just being bland.
I just uncovered their video-game (or just game?) section Kill Screen the other day. I guess that's been going on for a little while, but somehow I hadn't noticed it. I'm really not sure what's going on there.
― beachville, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
something horrible is going on over at Kill Screen
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
also in what way was that review a "difficult read"
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
it's hard to read w/ a hand in front of your face
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, March 23, 2012 12:30 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark
also some ghostface lyrics
― come on a #KONY (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
i guess its a difficult read if you dont realise that?
― just sayin, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
idk i think it's pretty obvious that weiss paraphrasing the music he's referencing... i mean, nobody writes like that
― come on a #KONY (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
except Brent DiCrescenzo
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
I've never listened to AB before so I thought it was more of a schreiber does coltrane kind of thing
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I figured most of those lyrics were quotes but its still really hacky and stupid
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
but not actually unreadable
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
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― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
i may have a vested interest here but this review really bothered me:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16309-the-end-of-that/
"[L]ike so much of the record, it initially sounds plainspoken and charming until you realize absolutely nobody talks like that."
criticizing a song for not sounding like people... talk??
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
^Actually unreadable
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― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
s1ocki, you ruined my joke, joke-blocker
And people actually do talk like that.
― beachville, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
haha that's a weird criticism
is that dude's platonic ideal of lyric writing "Popular" by Nada Surf
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
people in movies don't actually talk like people do irl
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
people don't say irl in person!
― bnw, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I have no idea about that album but I think this is a valid criticism in some form. It bothered me in Clerks b/c the whole appeal of that movie was that it was supposedly "real talk"!
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
they say "meatspace"
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
― bnw, Friday, March 23, 2012 1:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
I am the irl of sandwiches
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
duke of irl
― bnw, Friday, 23 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
And people actually do talk like that
i've never heard the album, or even heard of the band, but anyone who talks like this needs to have their mouth privileges revoked:
"...fucked-up bumblebee/ Headed for the potpourri...You turn me on so with your bee-sting lips/ And your pepper-grinder hips/ Like a thread in the needle/ We're just typical people"
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 23 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
is it just me or is it a a bit weird that pfork runs a long review of the new amadou & mariam album (one that longs for more sounds of their homeland) without the slightest mention of the military coup currently taking place in mali?
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16435-folila/
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i dont expect more than a passing reference but it seems to say... something... about... something. i dunno.
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
tbh Mark I wouldn't have even heard about the coup myself were it not for ____.
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh sorry I meant s1ocki
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
me neither! but i'm not writing a long article about malian music either...
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
haha i didnt even notice.
I can't think of any easy way to comment on a two-week old coup within a review that mentions Jake Shears and TVOTR guest spots.
― mom in the woods (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, it just seems to say something about how little context we get with our global supermarket of pop music, fwiw
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
its also somewhat possible that the review was written before the coup began
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
so what, it was published today
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it's a bit weird. but no more than that.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
i think the drop-down for coup announcements is in the "news" tab.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
uh, good observation. i mean, you expect pitchfork to go back and have their pop music review tweaked to incorporate current world events?
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
yes, if i was the editor, i would prob do that so as to not seem completely clueless
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
people don't say irl in person!― bnw, Friday, March 23, 2012 1:26 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark
I say i.r.l. IRL but I also kinda suck.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link