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

http://www.maxlandiswrites.com/macklemore-white-eminem/

should I click, maura

HOT TURDAKES

"should I click, maura"

don't do it.

Is that the same Max Landis famous for 'scripts' for Ghostbusters III, Super Mario Bros. The Movie, and other fanart things that every kid of that generation made up w their friends on the bus to school?

In the 2010s, the era of Macklemore, mainstream top 40 rap, with a few notable exceptions some of whom I’ve already mentioned, is getting…What’s the word…Stupider. Not in a bad way, but the rise of artists like Young Thug, a man who raps like a homeless man yelling, Pitbull, a fun raconteur whose every song seems to be a rearranged grouping of a limited number of catchphrases, and Tyga, whose songs about excess and irresponsibility are so simplistically worded that they border on accidental self parody, the art form is folding in on itself. Standing amongst this wreckage on the pop charts is a seemingly perpetually calm man with an interesting haircut rapping quietly to you about gay marriage, how nice it is to hang out with your friends, and the perks of owning a moped; he’s wearing your grandpa’s clothes, and he looks incredible.

BLACK BAD WHITE GOOD

finally a stoic rapper in neat clothes and an interesting haircut, enjoying camaraderie and owning novel modes of transportation

Pitbull, a fun raconteur

Young Thug, a man who raps like a homeless man yelling

Macklemore IS happy, he’s stylish, he’s upbeat and occasionally is going to fuck a fat girl.

well he does ride mopeds

http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/181357.gif

matos on the case...

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/john-seabrooks-pop-music-treatise-the-song-machine-is-h-1736113168

we were talking about some seabrook thing here, weren't we?

Good candidate for it, yup.

Ted Gioia is back, you guys:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/11/is-artisanal-music-the-next-new-thing.html

this is it

this is the nopegularity

wowwwwwwwww "artisanal music" I can't believe someone actually went there lol

I am offended on so many levels.

"But check out Ms. Lauryn Hill channeling Nina Simone on her latest album. "

wut

"Nimble young labels such as New Amsterdam, Brainfeeder, Innova, ANTI-, Sunnyside, Acony, Tzadik, Third Man, XL Recordings, Motéma, Mack Avenue, FatCat,"

wut

sexy young labels that know how to plz a man where it counts

need to check out that new lauryn hill album

seems a long way to go just to not say millennial males
embrace it

"You don’t want to be a musical Monsanto in this brave new world!"

What an astounding article. It's like an onion of wrong - layers within layers.

Really want a Gioia/Lefsetz co-headlining lecture/debate tour now.

you joke but that is a real possibility

Haha is there a label on that list less than 20 years old?

That article is truly terrible, but I thought the guy's jazz books were meant to be pretty good?

ilxOr roXor:

http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/131149722106/is-artisanal-music-the-next-new-thing

I thought the guy's jazz books were meant to be pretty good?
i think his history of jazz and jazz standards books are really useful and insightful. but these daily beast pieces are ridiculous.

michael jordan's really good at this basketball stuff, let's put him on a baseball team

matos under the skin...

https://twitter.com/jmseabrook/status/654368343143530496

so many things wrong with this 'review' https://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/2015/10/event-review-matrixxman-gunnar-haslam-at-fine-time/

That Seabrook tweet made me think he's confusing hip-hop with... some other form of music entirely?

That XLR8R thing is awful as an attempt at PR, never mind clearly failing as any kind of review.

If anyone actually manages to get to the end of this please tell me if it improves:

http://www.femmecult.com/news/fascism-in-ambient-music/

How does wellness, neo-paganism, techno, and Hitler all tie together?

well, how does they?

hah was gonna post that here earlier. General feeling on facebook is it is a terrible badly researched article but most dont get to the end.

i got to the end. it does not get better. :(

Ugh, just seems like the worst kind of Americanism: finding the most awful, trivial shit to get fundamentalist about.

the bit near the end about hostility exhibited in the musical structures is just... it's possible the precise point being made may have eluded me because the writing is completely hideous but it reads like some diabolus in musica type shit

How does wellness, neo-paganism, techno, and Hitler all tie together?

you know who else liked to pay homage to atonal sound design sets and installations that play for several unruly hours?

“Without the loudspeaker” writes Jacques Attali, “Hitler would have never conquered Germany” (Noise 87). The loudspeaker/radio/TV/iPhone

lol umm if you're gonna try a move like this maybe put some other flim-flam between the two sentences so people don't notice that you conflated "loudspeaker" with "anything that makes sound, whether privately or publicly"

The Fragile Ears Of Men

A defense of Joanna Newsom, at least that's how it seems to have been intended.

i didn't read past the lede

someone should invent an app that writes these thinkpieces without human intervention, it wouldn't be very hard to do. in fact i'm not entirely sure that's not how this piece was generated.

i am completely in the favor of the thesis of that piece but it relies on a lot of contorted and bad faith readings of criticism (for instance when she assumes that when a male critic compares newsom favorably to other male artists, he must like those artists better than her?)

honestly everyone who writes thinkpieces like that, reads them, or responds to them should probably be tied to a polaris missile and sent into the heart of the sun (myself included)

and Mike Powell loves Joanna Newsom