Music Criticism in Video Form

thread title compels me to post that whenever I want to hear a hip-hop review, my first stop is Dead End Hip Hop

https://albumfriend.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/fantano2.png

usually goes down differently when they appear on each other's shows

I decided to give a fantano youtube a try. This guy lost me by talking longer than a minute

Oh shit.., he just sarcastically called me an independently thinking snowflake

I hate when youtube recommends this guy to me now (I found a stop suggesting option but it must still have kinks). I cringe everytime his trendy, bulbous, hipster face gets placed next to content I like

I want to kill him between the eyes

It's impressive how he manages to look so aggressively annoying in every single still image I've ever seen of him, that's some real brand cultivation. I tried watching a video once out of curiosity and made it about twelve seconds, just brutal.

Fantano is (slightly) less obnoxious than this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s8mhU6P1Ho

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Wow…Fantano is like me without bitches

i hate this stuff

even though i haven't watched any. the youtube screenshot previews in the sidebar are enough

I quite like this guy, he also does unboxings of limited edition box sets and stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjQiwVVqWg

Never got the point of unboxing videos. Just seems like a boring video blogger ritual.

i think i'm old because i fucking hate all video content produced for social media. except cat videos and comical injury footage.

Yeah, unless the topic really benefits from being in a video form I tend to avoid videos. I shouldn't have to stop the music I'm listening to, or put headphones so I don't bother anyone, just to hear what could have just as simply been typed.

"Never got the point of unboxing videos. Just seems like a boring video blogger ritual."

hi you are not nine years old.

it's the latest in viral capitalist propoganda don't you know

I don't think most people doing unboxing videos are 9 either.

neither are the people doing the gamestop dumpster diving videos that my nine year old was obsessed with.

but yeah some unboxing stuff obviously for the people who are mentally nine. at heart.

dumpster diving videos >>>>> unboxing

But the unboxing videos usually look slow and ceremonial. As if they'd get a separate commentator if they could.

i worked with a guy who was into unboxing videos. basically he was quite an acquisitive, materialistic, fetishizing sort who got a visceral thrill from taking new goods, primarily electronic goods, out of their boxes after buying them. he explained that watching unboxing videos gave him a vicarious buzz.

he was 25 and quite immature/silly

http://channelawesome.com/category/videos/producers/todd/

i think this one lurks ilm. unless he's one of you? fess up!

I like really like Todd's One Hit Wonderland series.

sometimes it seems like the extent of the research he does is to read a couple wikipedia articles and type some stuff into the youtube search bar, but yeah, when it's good it really is good.

the bulk of his current-song-reviewing series used to be very much of the 'hetero white male reacts to/rants about things that were not made with him in mind' youtube genre which bugged me a bit but his output has certainly diversified since then and he does manage to be insightful

http://www.dailyuw.com/news/article_834a9b96-e038-11e5-b357-0fc016531edd.html

"Fantano’s insights were greeted with silent appreciation and rapt attention, while his jokes were met with tear-inducing laughter, enough for him to consider a career as a comedian if the music review business ever tanks. But for now, “The Needle Drop” doesn’t seem to be losing fans or slowing down in any way."

He was the first guy to put in the amount of work like that on YouTube, his grind is admirable,” Ross said. 'Few people used that format to review music, and he’s not beholden to any big media corporation, so that resonates with disillusioned music fans.'

this isn't entirely true, since theneedledrop is partnered with Complex Media. it's unlikely that Complex has any real editorial authority over his reviews (these partnerships usually amount to 'you give us a share of your ad revenue, and in return we do virtually nothing to promote your channel'), but it would be naive to assume that Fantano is an independent youtuber.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/3b7uk3/hip_hop_reacts_to_gay_marriage_legalisation/csjvxts

lol, apparently he was partnered with Maker Studios (a Disney subsidiary) up until sometime last year

I know Todd lurks over at the AV Club, but I'm not sure he lurks here.

big fan of Nostalgia Chick, who left that site a year or so ago and just hosts her own youtube. haven't seen much Todd but he has guested in her videos before.

Fantano reviews memes now and they get 100k+ views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2zcJq-oFvg

nice try, this is just that new radiohead leak

Life is full of "I wish I realized I could have made money just by ______" headsmacks, and in this one the blank is "being annoying on video."

Like, I already talk about stuff in an annoying way all the time, if only I had turned the camera on?

Guess who's in this enlightening video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4lFSq_Efzk

Learning that's the tip of the iceberg.

oh good can we not write thinkpieces about this piece of shit now

Lmao Racethony Wartano gonna str8 clean up in Trump's America with the biggest audience of any working music critic while we're arguing about whether the 1975 is on enough lists

t/s is he the most popular music critic bc he uses sound effects when describing a swans record or does he court a white nationalist reddit audience

proud to have been right since day 1

You all will remember this day when this dude takes over the world.

― ksh, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 1:14 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does this really come as a surprise

Only in the sense that the reasons he was already disliked don't seem to have any relation/wouldn't point to this development

Unless I missed something

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

This guy's changing lives and none of you even appreciate it:

But is he changing his pants

the reasons he was already disliked don't seem to have any relation/wouldn't point to this development

wants to nail down and evaluate art = wants to nail down and evaluate human beings