http://flavorwire.com/553256/stereotyping-you-by-your-favorite-album-of-2015belongs here, yea or nay?
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 December 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
yea
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 December 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
Genuinely surprised the Kamasi Washington album wasn't on that list. Seemed ripe for exactly that kind of cheap joke.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 24 December 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
lol it's ok
the neon indian one should be 2007
― probably.tasteful.forever (imago), Thursday, 24 December 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
oh ffs: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hello-from-the-same-side/
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 28 December 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
That is one for the ages
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Monday, 28 December 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
wow.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 December 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
Ooh, but it sounds so smart!
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 28 December 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
Here, identity is a secondary, implicit factor that affects performance, but not the primary, overt criterion for in/exclusion, so “Hello” liberalism can pass as nondiscriminatory and quintessentially liberal. However, the parallels in reception of Trump and “Hello” show that liberal “Hello” fans who overtly disidentify and disagree with Trump’s politics want to experience the same feeling of white privilege in terms more palatable to liberal tastes. This strain of “Hello” fandom is the (neo)liberal version of the same white supremacy that Trump expresses in more traditional terms.
― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Monday, 28 December 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
i think i just pulled something
― j., Monday, 28 December 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
Given the general trend in pop-culture writing in 2015, I'm genuinely surprised at the universal ridicule that piece - which, make no mistake - is a mountain of rotting garbage - is getting. It's only the next point on a line other writers have been marking out all year long.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 28 December 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
what we get is a completely standard rock beat, with nary an Amen, breakbeat, 808, or trap hi-hat anywhere in the song.
the gift that keeps giving
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Monday, 28 December 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
yeah this thing is just a perfect storm of bad writing trends, it's the season finale of Thinkpiece Island
― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Monday, 28 December 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
xxp honestly it just read as overreaching academic hackwork to me, the kind of theory-kit quick-read that you can get on any academic's blog or in a thrown-together conference presentation. but then i read the author preening about criticism of the piece only confirming her point, which is supremely irritating. i've seen other work of hers that seemed good (with allowances for different academic / pop crit competencies) but i find it deplorable that there are actual working critics out there who could far outstrip her own 'read' on her topic yet lack the prestige of third-gen frankfurt school allusions that would help them mount bad faith defenses of bad thinking like 'u must be butthurt bc my critique implicates u'. oh so trap has funny hi-hat programming wow lotta first-rate knowledge at the forefront of culture you're flashing there no chance an actual critic could ever compare.
― j., Monday, 28 December 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/XVz51n2.jpg
ah yes, what if we are the ones who are actually the...what
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 28 December 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
also reaching for the "trump" card is like one step away from godwin's law here -- really want to read the marshall hatford take on adele.
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Monday, 28 December 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
fuckin kylo ren there
― nomar, Monday, 28 December 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
the comparison of an inoffensive song you don't dig to actual physical racial violence is outlandish. and the fact that adele by all accounts is slotted as a "soul" singer of some sort goes completely unremarked, which makes the piece sort of astonishingly and proudly ignorant in terms of its treatment of race.
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Monday, 28 December 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
skrrrrt
― j., Monday, 28 December 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
not to mention the consistent idea that "naturalness" is a "white" thing, which completely eclipses an entire tradition of neo-soul, roots hip-hop, etc. etc. not to mention which a "natural" as a hairstyle is well... like somebody get this author an Erykah Badu album stat
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Monday, 28 December 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
spite some kind of modern virtue
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 28 December 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
From the Quietus best albums thing, just one sentence
"The RSS B0ys are a quick fuck on a dirty gas station-toilet with some anonymous stranger." Sonja Matuszczyk
Uhh huhhhhhhhh
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 09:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lemmy-and-motorhead-gave-metal-its-umlaut-20151229
this is pretty bad. i'm not sure which is worse on this, the writing or the editorial. on the editorial side, we have a headline about the importance of the umlaut to motorhead which omits the umlaut. on the article side, we have an article about how motorhead brought the umlaut to metal which openly acknowledges that motorhead did not bring the umlaut to metal, but got it from blue oyster cult. also there's this bizarre tangent about amon duul. i'm not sure if browne is actually unaware that umlauts are a standard part of the german language or knows but doesn't care.
― new zingland (rushomancy), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link
Just dropped in to see if that garbage New Inquiry piece had made it. This thread never lets me down.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
(Lemmy, a collector of Nazi memorabilia, rarely if ever commented on any connection between that umlaut and Nazi-era use of the dots in say, "Führer.") For Lemmy, the umlaut, like the music and lifestyle he lived until his body couldn't take it anymore, spoke — or pronounced — volumes.
― niels, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
yeah, i got rooked into promulgating the umlaut piece myself... people want more lemmy content right now! A piece on the pictographic history of his mole would likely have tremendous click-through.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
that's more of a right-hand-side-of-the-browser affiliate program link
― j., Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
i stand corrected
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
nazi-era use of the dots
― lem kip öbit (wins), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
of course after ww2 the decision was made to remove the dots from the word Führer
― lem kip öbit (wins), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
for a fairer Germany
― Coombesbat 18 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
as someone who has sub-edited not one but two Motorhead-dedicated magazine specials in recent years, the umlaut is the bane of my life.
― Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Thursday, 31 December 2015 12:32 (eight years ago) link
Let’s be clear on one thing about this record. It isn’t a rap album your average fair-weather hip-hop fan who only listens to what BET and Hot 97 feed them will ever begin to comprehend. In order to fully cognate the textural and lyrical parameters on display, you will have to go back to the likes of Funkadelic’s America Eats Its Young or Brer Soul by Melvin Van Peebles or even Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet to comprehend where this talented young man is coming from. Just as with D’Angelo’s The Black Messiah, To Pimp A Butterfly is exactly the kind of challenging, confrontational truth many Americans been waiting to hear from the black community.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 08:31 (eight years ago) link
just like The Black Messiah
― niels, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 11:38 (eight years ago) link
*just as with The Black Messiah
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
Offered without comment.
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/life-ruined-says-Daniel-O-Donnell-superfan/story-28465949-detail/story.html
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 10:50 (eight years ago) link
the photographer should have cajoled him into smashing all his memorabilia up for the camera imo
― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 10:54 (eight years ago) link
That would have added a frisson of psychopathy which would make the whole thing more believable.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 10:56 (eight years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/what-past-coachella-lineups-would-look-like-today/
― poorzingis (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
i have no idea what that is for
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
http://www.digitalthirdcoast.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/fewer-clicks1.png
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 20:50 (eight years ago) link
tried reading that on mobile and got one of those full-page 'download this app to proceed' roadblocks. hisssss
― maura, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 23:40 (eight years ago) link
In order to fully cognate the textural and lyrical parameters on displayhttps://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fs3-ec.buzzfed.com%2Fstatic%2Fenhanced%2Fwebdr05%2F2013%2F7%2F9%2F19%2Fenhanced-buzz-2038-1373414176-0.jpg&f=1
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 23:49 (eight years ago) link
good lord what is the fucking point of that Coachella poster piece
― alpine static, Thursday, 7 January 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
^^^ btw I've clicked through four pages of it so far :(
― alpine static, Thursday, 7 January 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
You might as well be asking what is the point of Consequence of Sound. There appears to be none.
― Position Position, Thursday, 7 January 2016 01:08 (eight years ago) link
omg that coachella piece is amazing. the headliners are basically the same. this is like clickhole quality "here's what famous stars would look like if we photoshopped a hat onto them" stuff.
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Thursday, 7 January 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
Writer learned who Bowie was via Snapchat a few minutes before getting the assignment
http://www.thefader.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-obituary-essay
― Frozen CD, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 01:17 (eight years ago) link
idk if i'm going to regret engaging but: where is the evidence of that
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 01:44 (eight years ago) link
doubt someone who'd just heard of Bowie could have turned his bio into such bizarre prose so quickly
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 05:29 (eight years ago) link