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

i have no idea how or why you would read a Byron Crawford article if you're not attuned to his schtick

"I can't *believe* this thing I saw on an account that I follow that has done exactly this type of thing for 10 years"

well I actually saw Craig Jenkins tweeting taking shots about some article that mentioned his writing and was like hmm I wonder what this is and the article was that bol piece.

am I grounded?

Def on goon cru probation

damn :(

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/what-sincerity-looks-like.html?mcubz=3&_r=0

"Swift is a phenomenally talented and beautiful songwriter who has lost touch with herself and seems to have been swallowed by the ethos of the Trump era."

david brooks retire bitch

yeah that seems willfully ignorant
"some ordinary-looking backup singers behind him"

"It’s interesting how corporate the video looks and the song sounds. It’s been a long time since the Sex Pistols burst on the scene."

EVER FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BEEN CHEATED???

Back in the 1950s, sincerity seemed treacly and boring, and authenticity, in the form of, say, Johnny Cash, seemed daring and new. But now rebellious authenticity is the familiar corporate success formula, and sincerity, like Chance the Rapper’s, is practically revolutionary.

https://media.giphy.com/media/26BRq84rhISRcFVUQ/giphy.gif

A person has a soul, which is what Chance is worrying about. A brand has a reputation, which is the title of Swift’s next album. A person has private dignity. A brand is a creation for an audience.

so was chance acting like a person or a brand when his management went after a MTV News writer

lol SERIOUSLY

maybe he was just acting like a man... the most authentic way to act of all

he was certainly not acting as a rapper

Sincerity is the new authenticity.

Aw, that takes me back. ILM circa 2005: fake is the new real / real is the new fake

I hope we get another "Mean" out of this.

I mean we kind of already have

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41RG9XYD33L._SX305_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

as in the rapper obv

ah, i hated that book so much 20 years ago—remember when he and wendy shalit were being pitched as the ivy leaguers who TOLD IT LIKE IT WAS (i.e. that america should be more conservative)? misty, watercolored, etc.

dude got woke. it turns out that women make great music. if you really listen. while you are eating breakfast.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/magazine/should-women-make-their-own-pop-music-canon.html?referer

THIS IS NOT THE WORST MUSIC WRITING. just didn't know where else to put it.

kinda would have respected him more if he had gone first person here. the marathon listening session he describes at the beginning seems like penance or something:

"We take female musicians just seriously enough not to notice that we don’t actually take them seriously enough."

lol at Wesley Morris suddenly getting woke

We should start new thread for this and it's ilk called 'OK, is this the wokest piece of music writing ever?'

Also, what New York does he live in where he doesn't hear women. I hear "Hips Don't Lie" all the time.

he just hears the beatles everywhere

The other day, I spent 75 minutes at a coffee shop and heard, one after the other, the Doors, Radiohead and Elvis Costello.

lasted 74 minutes longer than I would've

The other day, I spent 75 minutes at a coffee shop

The saddest 11 words I've read all year, maybe.

it's hard when you're trying to stay sober

I write a scathing Yelp review if I spend more than 5 minutes in a coffee shop without hearing Tribe 8's "Neanderthal Dyke" playing at deafening volumes

what kind of new york does he live in where people eat hoagies???? IT'S CALLED A HERO

anyway ban all critical writing that uses 'we' as a rhetorical framework, because it ALWAYS lands poorly

yes^

xxp

Morris grew up in Philadelphia. He attended high school at Girard College in 1993, graduating in 1993.[5] While a high school student, he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer's teen supplement, "Yo! Fresh Ink."[6]

anyway ban all critical writing that uses 'we' as a rhetorical framework, because it ALWAYS lands poorly

Yep; I've been saying this for years.

we agree then

I sometimes spend three hours grading, writing, and reading at a Starbucks on weekends, but I killed the barista and his Elvis Costello playlist three years ago.

the spurlockesque stunt of listening to women

fetishize this

fuck, i fucked up the joke

fetishize me

If the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” comes on while I’m waiting for a hoagie, I’m not going to riot. I’ll just stand there in a state of stupid happiness while I sing the whole song and mime the whistle parts.

oh god I know this guy

he also yells PUMP IT UP and mimes the organ part

also as someone who spends... significantly more than 75 minutes a day at coffee shops (my home wi-fi is beyond shitty), I don't remember a single playlist with no women.

maybe he actually hangs out at a Subway because its the only place where he can get a sandwich that reminds him of his beloved hoagies from Wawa and he's too embarrassed to mention it. #yophilly

also as someone who spends... significantly more than 75 minutes a day at coffee shops (my home wi-fi is beyond shitty), I don't remember a single playlist with no women.

i believe if you're from philly you can order a "playlist with" or a "playlist without."

HEY I'M PONTIFICATIN' HEAH

I'm at coffee shop now, and it's blasting Sky Ferreira's "You're Not the One."