Even in the candid photo of her nude in the shower, soaking wet, she looks natural like a terrified young woman about to be butchered by a man wearing a mask made of skin
― Wimmels, Friday, 17 June 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
Wait so was the guy in the Independent thing ending every other sentence with "b" because he was so street?
― On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 17 June 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link
pfft
LA Weekly Music @LAWeeklyMusic 1h1 hour agoSeeing feedback to the @skyferreira story & tweet. We hear you. We truly didn't mean to offend & will address further in an upcoming post.
― nomar, Friday, 17 June 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
"like a freshly licked lollipop"
this has to be the worst five words ever written by anyone anywhere ever in human history
― alpine static, Saturday, 18 June 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link
story is still up of course
― nomar, Saturday, 18 June 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
takes on his many nemeses in an ambitious quest to boldly go where no other critic has gone before.
We truly didn't mean to offend
does not add up.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 18 June 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
i must have confined myself to a weird life/internet bubble for way too long, cuz i can't imagine anyone writing or publishing such a thing. it feels decades out of time.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 June 2016 02:14 (seven years ago) link
"Both Sky and Madonna have similar breasts in both cup size and ability to cause a shitstorm."
either this guy is also bad at metaphors or I just learned a lot about the sort of pornography this guy watches
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 18 June 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, June 17, 2016 10:14 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
exactly this
― Wimmels, Saturday, 18 June 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
also it is indicative of 2016 that an article like this can contain both "she looks... sweet, like a freshly licked lollipop" and "I'm not trying to otherize this woman"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 18 June 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
Nothing matters in 2016 and there will be zero consequences for anyone involved, btw
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 18 June 2016 04:03 (seven years ago) link
consequences = dude had to make his twitter private
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link
L.A. Weekly's angriest (and nerdiest) music critic
is this not f@ntano?
― dyl, Saturday, 18 June 2016 06:21 (seven years ago) link
Nothing matters in 2016 and there will be zero consequences for anyone involved, btw― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, June 18, 2016 5:03 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, June 18, 2016 5:03 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tbomb
― Oh baby, if only you knew / Gabnebb hit a hundred-and-two (stevie), Saturday, 18 June 2016 11:42 (seven years ago) link
there's an apology piece on L.A. Weekly and the comments section, though it only has half a dozen comments, somehow became a bat signal for MRAs whining about SJWs. http://www.3danvil.com/emoticons/jerkoff.gif
― nomar, Sunday, 19 June 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
http://www.laweekly.com/music/about-that-sky-ferreira-piece-it-crossed-the-line-and-were-sorry-7043581
This comment though:
lol this "apology" is too much: within the first paragraph, they cite the one male response to a sexist, misogynist piece as "the most damning and cleverist" and they express amused shock that "even" Teen Vogue took them to task, and even Teen Vogue was right--even those silly little young women seem to have big ol' brains!
"My biggest regret, in all of this, is that WE *MAY* HAVE MADE PEOPLE *FEEL* like L.A. Weekly is a publication that doesn't take women or women's issues seriously."So classic, so elegant. The Little Black Dress of non-apologies.
― Frozen CD, Sunday, 19 June 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
it is depressing and sad to read the twitter replies on the L.A. Weekly Music account. somehow this piece and the backlash was picked up by the gamer gate crowd, and there are some vile opinions on there from some vile shitstains.
― nomar, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:09 (seven years ago) link
oh god m1l0 picked it up. that dude...
― maura, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
Tavana's piece did cross the line. It was offensive, and on behalf of him and L.A. Weekly, I apologize for it.
I am not here to make excuses; instead, I will say that, in this line of work, we make judgment calls on what to say and how to say it all the time, and sometimes we get it wrong. This time, Tavana and I got it wrong.
struggling to see how this is a "non-apology" rather than an just an apology
― soref, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
xp
ugh xxpost
― nomar, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
I will never read this terrible article but the controversy reminded me of sky ferreira. her most recent album is like a treasure trove of rad power pop
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:01 (seven years ago) link
"Nobody asked me if i was ok" might be my favorite. I suspect a bunch of ppl think of it as a secret personal anthem - something to listen to when you reminisce over old grudges
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
yeah Night Time, My Time is amazing. Can't wait for the next one.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:15 (seven years ago) link
Yeah. It was annoying to me at the time that the album was overshadowed by discussions of the cover art, which in any case I thought people misinterpreted. There was a lot to say about that collection of songs: the record struck an interesting balance between engaging/foiling audience expectations and just being its own thing, which is tough thing to pull off in a highly anticipated debut album that was pushed back a bunch of times. I hope the writer of the LA weekly piece chokes on a pretzel. Not lethally, but enough to give him a good scare and maybe embarass him a little.
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
"lost in my bedroom" is of course one of the great songs of the decade bc of the understated vocals.
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
Fwiw the tweet is refreshingly NOT the typical non apology
Our critics are right and we were wrong. The Sky Ferreira piece was offensive and sexist. We're sorry. https://t.co/aWXMyD5mR1
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 June 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link
What of Mr Tavana, is he even angrier (and nerdier) now?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 June 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
the Sasha Grey piece he wrote was also crummy but I guess he successfully cloaked his gross misogyny.
― maura, Sunday, 19 June 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Well, she's got smaller tits than Ferreira, so maybe he wasn't as committed to the assignment.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
lol boom!
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
coincidentally been listening to night time, my time a lot the past couple weeks; treeship otm re "nobody asked me" but i also go kind of embarrassingly crazy for "omanko".
maura nobly didn't link the sasha grey piece but i googled it anyway, indefensibly yielding a click, then tapped out after a single paragraph of aspiring magazine prose about what she was wearing when she arrived at the restaurant.
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
What about how "heavy metal heart" reuses and transforms the main riff of "you're not the one," the track righy before it
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 June 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
Tbh the kind of meta-cultural commentary that piece was going for -- trying to "place things" or make claims about what something as large as pop music "needs today," as if cultural is just a self-correcting machine that moves in an eternal circle -- is annoying in itself, apart from the egregious sexism. As a lens it's incapable of registering anything that actually makes music enjoyable or meaningful.
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 June 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2016/6/20/does-the-underground-metal-scene-really-have-a-sjw-problem
Some really awful writing here and fuck Decibel for promoting this bullshit. Subscription cancelled.
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 20 June 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
"self-described" "self-proclaimed" SJWs.
― evol j, Monday, 20 June 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
Indeed.
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 20 June 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
hahahahahaha
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 June 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
"Extreme metal is art. It is dangerous art and part of its very appeal is indeed that of peril and endangerment. In fact, at many shows, one might come face to face with an artist or two (or fan for that matter) who has spent significant in time in prison for offenses that range from assault to arson to murder. That is the reality of extreme metal."
http://67.media.tumblr.com/34e283f1aaf299a398db1fffa5f16c06/tumblr_nusitr4Rho1rocshso1_500.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 20 June 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
gut-wrenchingly impactful
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 20 June 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
^^^ me if i don't drink my psyllium seed husks for a few days
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 20 June 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
lol
― riverine (map), Monday, 20 June 2016 21:24 (seven years ago) link
ahahahaha christ
― imago, Monday, 20 June 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
"At an extreme metal show you may stand next to someone who has just played Fallout 4 for 23 straight hours with only minimal breaks for food or water. This is the dangerous reality of the art."
― scott seward, Monday, 20 June 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link
extreme hydration
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 20 June 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
I was kinda shocked to learn that this guy (who's barely capable of writing a sentence in English) actually is a professor. I assumed he made that part up, like when dudes on right-wing message boards claim to be Navy SEALs.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
have you read the prose of tenured faculty?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Nope; I barely graduated high school and only did three semesters of community college.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
I was kinda shocked to learn that this guy (who's barely capable of writing a sentence in English) actually is a professor.
yeah, that was my only reaction, though i was more depressed than shocked. shitty writing + shallow thinking + zero research = college professor teaching a course called "evil, death and dystopia".
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Monday, 20 June 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
http://www.fandm.edu/jeffrey-podoshen
― scott seward, Monday, 20 June 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link