pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

something horrible is going on over at Kill Screen

also in what way was that review a "difficult read"

it's hard to read w/ a hand in front of your face

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, March 23, 2012 12:30 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

also some ghostface lyrics

i guess its a difficult read if you dont realise that?

idk i think it's pretty obvious that weiss paraphrasing the music he's referencing... i mean, nobody writes like that

except Brent DiCrescenzo

I've never listened to AB before so I thought it was more of a schreiber does coltrane kind of thing

yeah I figured most of those lyrics were quotes but its still really hacky and stupid

but not actually unreadable

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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??

^Actually unreadable

xpost

s1ocki, you ruined my joke, joke-blocker

And people actually do talk like that.

haha that's a weird criticism

is that dude's platonic ideal of lyric writing "Popular" by Nada Surf

people in movies don't actually talk like people do irl

people don't say irl in person!

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"!

people don't say irl in person!

they say "meatspace"

people don't say irl in person!

― bnw, Friday, March 23, 2012 1:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I am the irl of sandwiches

duke of irl

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"

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/

i mean i dont expect more than a passing reference but it seems to say... something... about... something. i dunno.

tbh Mark I wouldn't have even heard about the coup myself were it not for ____.

Ugh sorry I meant s1ocki

me neither! but i'm not writing a long article about malian music either...

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.

i dunno, it just seems to say something about how little context we get with our global supermarket of pop music, fwiw

its also somewhat possible that the review was written before the coup began

so what, it was published today

yeah, it's a bit weird. but no more than that.

i think the drop-down for coup announcements is in the "news" tab.

so what, it was published today

uh, good observation. i mean, you expect pitchfork to go back and have their pop music review tweaked to incorporate current world events?

yes, if i was the editor, i would prob do that so as to not seem completely clueless

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.

lol u guys

uh, good observation. i mean, you expect pitchfork to go back and have their pop music review tweaked to incorporate current world events?

this is what's known as par for the course in most professional publications

^^^

yeah, it's a bit weird. but no more than that.

― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol well since you've rendered judgement

what if ... it IS a bit more than that? :O

there is utterly no reason to pick contenderizer's post out of that whole exchange other than your weird thing w/ contenderizer

it's sort of reassuring, though

hi, deej

this is what's known as par for the course in most professional publications

I completely agree! I'm just saying that I find it a little weird to start expecting this out of Pitchfork, of all places.

there is utterly no reason to pick contenderizer's post out of that whole exchange other than your weird thing w/ contenderizer

― Austerity Bronies (some dude), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think its funny how hes constantly reassuring ppl that nothing is actually problematic or racist or offensive or sexist or etc. etc. -- seems like hes doing a lot of minimizing all the time

dude, if you ever bothered to think for a moment about anything you read/type, you'd realize that i spend a fuck of a lot of time on ILX calling out shit as racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. way more so than most posters. you've just decided to make a big psycho issue out of this because i don't always agree with you.

I love how dick-waving on ILX essentially amounts to who can call the most people racist