pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

I think the point of the FJM covers, at least in part, is that how we receive lyrics and lyrical meaning is strongly determined by performative context: TS's lyrics sound like LR lyrics once they're performed in a voice approximating his and all rambly and off-meter. Which is one aspect of why such radically transformative cover versions are often dickmoves (this is the purpose of him saying he's paying tribute to RA rather than TS herself).

do we seriously have a 'novelty twitter account' style ilx poster who just posts spoonerisms? jesus that's depressing

― some dude, Thursday, September 24, 2015 5:30 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whatever dumb pseud

The notion that the best way to introduce a streaming music service to women is to present it as an emotional dildo is confounding.

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/905-op-ed-women-dont-need-a-man-to-make-their-mixtapes/

Interesting turn of phrase there.

That's way too long of a critique for what i assume is a stupid commercial

I guess it wouldn't be pitchfork if it wasn't longwinded.

some dudes been doing that for years with his usernames

okay, i just noticed this pairing on tiny mix tapes. bravo.

Julia Holter: “[Academic music] is music that you can explain, and I find that my music is not always explainable, or ‘makes sense.’”
Gwar: “My schlong is very nice. It’s not deformed.”

He's from Paterson, N.J., a place we would almost certainly not be talking about were it not for Fetty Wap

tell that to a 20th century poetry seminar

haha

Fetty > William Carlos Willams, give him the Pulitzer for " work the damn pole"

3,578 RTs 6,895 Fav

the "we" in that statement doesn't talk about poetry so the sentence is technically correct

Poetry prefers to go by They/Them

lmao

brb, writing listicle: "Aging Rock Critic or 8chan Gamergate Troll?"

(not in reference to this thread, per se, but the uptick in critics throwing around phrases like 'SJWs' in reference to articles they don't like is kind of startling and disconcerting)

https://twitter.com/1000timesyes/status/649272260625330177

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Cannot believe I'm AGING out of the important millennial demo that gets their sexual identity validated by the songs on a cartoon show

oh hey, saves me some evidence gathering

ah, i thought i was being sub-tweeted

I'm pretty sure I've talked about this before, it might even be in this thread

is it ok to mock thirsty allies or is that suggestive of a secrete mo to not be an ally

lol forgot about my dn

I def want to start a new thread about this because I think we've def crossed over into an era where "social justice" in music writing is being over-run by straight white men screeching I'M SO ENLIGHTENED at female writers' twitter accounts

"era"

so many eras of social justice in music writing, just can't keep track of them all

I remember the being mad at Coco Rosie era

also in this era: the gopherguts practice of calling any post one disagrees with "SJW clickbait" (meanwhile, breitbart is A-OK and not trolling for clicks at all) without engaging with the content

katherine otm

idgaf about the pitchfork piece i really have no idea what it is talking about but i think the term "SJW" is pretty gross and dismissive and i wouldn't use it myself

even if i am kind of mildly annoyed by some things one might call "SJW clickbait"

I mean sure I wish some pieces were a little longer on the substance but this sort of thing is a hop, skip and a jump from doxing someone for their opinions on fucking drake

yeah well "SJW clickbait" is ridiculous because it implies that social justice topics are things that bring people to music sites as opposed to loss-leaders for the greater good

wait, who here likes breitbart?

im pro sjw don't get me wrong, i thought we were reclaiming that

the key word in whiney's tweet was 'performative'

Can't believe people actually want socials justice. Do they want things to get BETTER? /s

im pro sjw don't get me wrong, i thought we were reclaiming that
the key word in whiney's tweet was 'performative'
― TheFatSJW (D-40), Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:54 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, I'm pro-SJW too. I'm sure everyone on ILX is. This 100 times

I'm talking more about the performative disingenuousness of things like this

http://www.spin.com/2015/09/deafheavens-guitarist-used-homophobic-slurs-on-twitter/

Wherein a straight white male writer pretends to clutch his pearls and be TAKEN ABACK by the "ugly slurs" and "foolish, hurtful language" of three year old tweets, boldly asserting that "Using f*ggot as an insult is never okay."

When really, A) Uh doy, no shit, all 300 (maybe?) adults that are going to read this garbage aggregation post knows that homophobic language is wrong. Why are you explaining "homophobia = bad" to me like I'm a fucking 10-year-old?

and B) It's all just a performance of "FOR THE GREATER GOOD" when really all he's doing is getting tabloidy clicks off shaming some metal dork

Or the Bob's Burger post where I AM GOOD ALLY finds some convoluted way to twist the idea that cartoon songs get his dick hard?

Also the complicity in reprinting those words over and over and giving them extra attention.

i thought the ironic part about SJW was the "W" part -- i.e. people who get a self-righteous buzz from condemning people on social media, thinking they are doing battle for the greater good, but really just resounding in an echo chamber. i guess some people use "SJW" to mock the "SJ" part, too...

:(

Yes a lot of it is the self-righteous mocking the self-righteous.

i thought the ironic part about SJW was the "W" part -- i.e. people who get a self-righteous buzz from condemning people on social media, thinking they are doing battle for the greater good, but really just resounding in an echo chamber. i guess some people use "SJW" to mock the "SJ" part, too...

― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:02 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is giving the guys of gamergate a lot more credit than they deserve. they actively think ppl who are feminist are brainwashed by SJWs. that doesn't suggest to me they're critiquing echo chambers equally, lol

*feminists

Would be down for a dedicated thread cos it feels like I run across SJW-based conspiracies in comment sections all over the internet.

this is giving the guys of gamergate

see, i haven't been following this at all and only have the faintest idea of what it is (i don't play computer games and haven't for decades), so perhaps i'm insulated from some of the worst stuff.

Yes, I'm pro-SJW too. I'm sure everyone on ILX is. This 100 times

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:59 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wait forgot about Mordy, lol

Super into a bunch of straight white dudes (correct me if I'm wrong!) determining what is or isn't performative when it comes to social justice, I'd call it policing but a bunch of you are gonna get all twisted about it I know

sorry, I'm just extremely hardline on this because I was there for the first wave (fortunately too obscure there to be targeted, but one degree of separation from those who were) and I am very much not thrilled about experiencing the sequel in music writing

i do get a little annoyed when people refer to ILX as all straight white dudes. makes me think they don't read ILX (or at least the threads i read idk)