The “we,” it seems, refers to the slaves, the slaves of fear, and if I try any harder to connect the dual sensation of edginess and laziness with slavery, the all-American institution that killed and brutalized millions of people for hundreds of years, I am going to have to take a long walk into the sun.
this is certainly a stretch
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 11 February 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
might as well be woking on the sun
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
but also like....was anyone in the history of people who listen to HEALTH in it for the lyrics
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 11 February 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
“all-American” is a pretty narrow look at slavery tbh
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 February 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
Oh no that’s a Sasha Geffen reviewI find that kind of disappointing
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Monday, 11 February 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
the health album is fine
I'm kind of interested in the credits because I generated a playlist off one of the singles/early release songs and apple music served up an instrumental song that was reeeeeally similar
― mh, Monday, 11 February 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
I've noticed that whenever they decide to pan an act they tend to start hyper-scrutinizing the lyrics, which almost certainly never stood up to this sort of examination in the first place. (inspired by today's HEALTH review)
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, February 11, 2019 9:05 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
generally I think Phillip Sherburne is a very good critic but his James Blake pan leaned heavily on this approach too.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 11 February 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
2011: Pitchfork gives Childish Gambino a 1.6.2019: Childish Gambino wins song and record of the year. 2018: Pitchfork gives Greta Van Fleet a 1.6.2026: ??????— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) February 11, 2019
― flappy bird, Monday, 11 February 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
that is america
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 February 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
xp Why jump to 2026? GVF won a Grammy just last night.
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Monday, 11 February 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
because it's about pitchfork ratings and the implication is the rest of the world liking GVF, or the grammy or w/e, is going to change the critical consensus
― mh, Monday, 11 February 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
as for why eight years, numerology and the need to make a strong parallel in a tweet on all levels apparently
― mh, Monday, 11 February 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
Speaking of Childish Gambino, I was checking to see where "This is America" landed in Pitchfork's Top 100 last year. Turns out it didn't appear in it at all, and yet "Childish Gambino" is listed in the keywords for that article, and the article shows up on his artist page. I'm guessing that in an earlier draft of the list, he was in there? Or they were trying to maximize search engine results by getting Childish Gambino fans to check out the list?
― MarkoP, Monday, 11 February 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
because it's about pitchfork ratings and the implication is the rest of the world liking GVF, or the grammy or w/e, is going to change the critical consensusThe tweet doesn’t seem to say anything about critical consensus? The “joke” just seems to be around the irony that P’fork gives a 1.6 to an artist who later wins Grammys... and it happened immediately in GVF’s case, no need to wait. (Obv. though, GVF only won in the Rock category, not Song/Record of the Year.)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Monday, 11 February 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
it's badly-structured all around and I was undercaffeinated
― mh, Monday, 11 February 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
or the joke is that in six years CG went from pitchfork low score to a grammy
GVF did the same within a year and will obviously be emperors of the world and throwing pitchfork writers into a giant meat grinder by 2026?
― mh, Monday, 11 February 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
by 2026 we will hopefully have figured out this mystifying Steven Hyden joke
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 11 February 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
meat grinder 20206
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 February 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
tbf CG also won a Grammy last year, but it was a dinky Grammy, like the one GVF won last night
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 11 February 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
I only accept medium to large sized Grammys
― mh, Monday, 11 February 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
I was confused by the HEALTH review as well, but this is a pretty solid burn: I suspect the song got stuck with the name “FEEL NOTHING” because there’s already a nu-metal track called “Numb,” and while this isn’t the place to discuss the relative merits of Linkin Park, their take on the time-honored tradition of freezing away existential pain at least came with four whole chords and a hook.
― Frederik B, Monday, 11 February 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
or maybe it got "stuck" with the name "Feel Nothing" because it's the final phrase of the chorus, aka literally the most common place to drop your title in all of pop/rock songwriting
I don't even care about HEALTH that much just found all the burns weirdly strained
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 11 February 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
while this isn’t the place to discuss the relative merits of Linkin Park
and yet here we are
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 February 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link
“I’m So Fucking Grateful For… The Grammys?”
In which a Pitchfork writer pretends to be surprised at enjoying an awards show that feeds off the social media response fueled image-first, music-second celebrity culture that they’ve been bought into for years now.
― triggercut, Monday, 11 February 2019 23:26 (five years ago) link
your opinions are tedious
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 11 February 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
Maybe it got named “feel nothing” because that’s a fantastic name. (Note that the lead track on my high school band’s platinum selling (300 copies in a small town) debut album was called “feel nothing”)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 11 February 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
Z, I want to hear that album.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 11 February 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
Also, FP me all you want, but this is truthbomb has been marinating for a while, I think. . .https://i.imgur.com/0jZhK8d.png
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
Also, I have never Googled the word "pitchfork" on a work terminal ever before and that's where I'm posting from.🐸
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link
The grammys and pitchfork can have different perspectives
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link
And that “Pitchfork writer” in this case is k4th3rin3 st. 4s4ph, who as I’m sure we all know is deeply unwelcome on ilx
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
(Her name unexpectedly - for me at least - just got run through some inbuilt text filter, so if she actually did do something to make herself unwelcome I apologize for my lack of tact)
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
Dude what is wrong with you?
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
(Oh no)
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:40 (five years ago) link
(Please be assured that all I meant was “Katherine has used ilx so it seems weird to call her out as part of some faceless organization”)
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:42 (five years ago) link
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― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
(Perhaps not the best venue or topic for any form of sarcasm, so my apologies)
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
Nicki Says She’s Dropping Out of BET Concert After Being Shaded in Cardi Grammys Tweet
When did Pfork start using only first names in headlines, a la US Weekly?
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
Conde Nast house style, I bet.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that really struck me too
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
Transformation to celebrity gossip supermarket checkout line tabloid almost complete
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
You don't save a lot of space leaving the "B" off of a name
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
Just realized I dreamed about Nicki and Cardi last night, no joke. (plus, Max Martin & Ilya... these were the last things I was reading/thinking of before going to sleep.)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
Do any of those dream-symbology webpages have a section on the hidden significance of topline writers
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
Anyway, you guys critiquing the “celebrity culture / supermarket tabloid” angle may want to turn your attn to the actual news item re: Nicki & BET — as that’s a case of a media org getting seriously burned by leaning too far into that space (one tweet apparently did them a lot of damage).
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
kind of an immensely dumb tweet that looks like an overzealous intern wrote it and which they pulled immediately but celebrity is a petty petty landscape so
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
every dumb pulled tweet needs a two day cycle of thinkpieces now
I feel like such an old man
― mh, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
If you don’t think the impact of Nicki pulling herself and Lil Wayne out of BETX, as a result of being dragged in a BET News tweet, are interesting / worth talking about, then... well, I guess you’re not really interested in music showbiz!
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, February 12, 2019 9:19 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
are you a triggercut sock or is triggercut a sock of you
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
― triggercut, Monday, February 11, 2019 6:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for what it's worth I actually was surprised, and I'm sorry if I wrote anything wrong, I have been operating on one hour of sleep
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link