pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

damn, the Zara McFarlane is something else, not even remotely like what I was expecting

the title should really be changed at some point

― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, July 27, 2020 11:45 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

look I know there's a lot of posts in here but we haven't hit #34985859340293849495 yet

I really liked McFarlane's first album - even interviewed her for Bandcamp - but I haven't dug into the new one yet.

look I know there's a lot of posts in here but we haven't hit #34985859340293849495 yet

i feel like a lot of people don't really understand how large numbers like these are. at our current pace, it could take over 3 years to hit #34,985,859,340,293,849,495

Still thinking about this one pic.twitter.com/V7YXzLe1Pj

— Jeremy D. Larson (@jeremydlarson) July 27, 2020

unreal

i feel like a lot of people don't really understand how large numbers like these are. at our current pace, it could take over 3 years to hit #34,985,859,340,293,849,495

― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Monday, July 27, 2020 2:32 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't know, if we count every tweet about this well-written positive review as a post I think we're probably pretty close

oh my god @ that tweet

i am twitter illiterate, what's the joke?

Someone thinks Pfork isn't "indie" enough to appreciate the album.

Swift stans taking on the rockist mantle

they can't. . . be serious?

can they?

also Larson is P4k's reviews editor

that is amazing

xpost judging from the user's other tweets--no it is not a joke

pfork will take any attention they can get i reckon.

I think the fans are mad that the review was catalogued under pop/r&b instead of indie rock which would've generated a higher number because the reviewer would've had some expertise in indie music

I've been spending too much time in their heads today. help.

Yes, there was also some confusion that "pop/R&B" referred to Mapes's genre of expertise rather than how the album itself was classified. As I noted in the stan thread, people are similarly outraged that the New York Times let a "pop music critic" (Caramanica) review it.

twitter stans are dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

x-post

Surprised that the new Bad Brains piece doesn’t even allude to the controversy involving the band and homophobia (despite spending several paragraphs on their 1989 album which has that infamous song). Just seems like something a retrospective like this would typically attempt to wrestle with a bit.

― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Sunday, July 26, 2020 7:

The review also has a factual error: Born Paul Hudson in Liverpool, England in 1956, H.R.’s family moved to Jamaica (where he discovered reggae at age 3)

Reggae didn't exist yet in 1959, when he was 3 years old

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bad-brains-i-against-i/

ssshhh, let the legend blossom.

didn't know h.r's entire family was born paul hudson

ssshhh, let the legend blossom.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, July 27, 2020 4:35 PM

H.R. is the hardcore Voltron

what a fucking badass title to have jeez

In 2004 my solo album got an 8.8 BNM and I received none of these things. I had to go back to my day job. https://t.co/64frrSqj1Q

— Carl Newman (@ACNewman) July 28, 2020

lol, i remember at one point i was waiting tables and an issue of a national magazine with a paragraph about my ~~bL0g~~ came out and i went to pick it up a the newsstand on my break and when I came back I showed it to the floor manager and he said "oh so are you gonna quit your day job now?"
I made lousy bank that night too

xpost lol The first response was basically, wait, wasn't your day job the New Pornographers? And his response to that was "my point is still valid."

That album remains my 2nd favourite New Pornographers-related recording fwiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2bMKnuv_-k

He's right-- it was only a handshake

I'm losing my fucking mind

we live in a society were female excellence gets paid dust pic.twitter.com/cSq0p6s9Cr

— M I A N G E L O ₁₃ (@doublemantra13) July 27, 2020

hmm, I wonder what the scores are for Styles, Bieber, Sheehan, Malone etc.

also, I mean - Bolt Cutters(?)

"10 years ago things were different."

"I don't agree because it wasn't like that 16 years ago"

"..."

^Yeah I don't get the point of the A.C. Newman tweet. Not saying the original tweet is exactly right, but Pitchfork was more influential in 2010 than 2004, no?

it is called a humble brag guys
rip harris

also, I mean - Bolt Cutters(?)

And also BNMs for Waxhatchee, Haim and Phoebe Bridgers in recent months

twitter has melted our brains

rip harris

I think of this tweet more than any old tweet by anyone (including every year around my b-day):

Nothing worse than an adult guy super into his birthday.

— Harris Wittels (@twittels) March 7, 2013

entitled stans get more pathetic every year. they will get worse but at least there's no mark david chapmans yet.

Do you think the Swift stans would have even cared if Pitchfork just didn't review it at all? Like, would there by nasty tweets and threatening emails if they just ignored it?

Doubt it. It's all about the Metacritic average, I think?

I would like to see p4k tweet back "We don't review country music."

Assume the New York Times is getting some shit at the moment

Yep: who are you a stan of?

https://i.imgur.com/cbe3Zea.png

hmm

I've said this in the artists you have tried to get into but can't thread, but I just don't really get the Taylor Swift thing at all. All of her music seems eminently mediocre, and listening to "cardigan" just now hasn't really changed my opinion on that.

Like yeah, it's basically the same as an 8.0, but that anyone with ears could possibly think this record by Ambrose Akinmusire is less good that Taylor's new sentimental pop diarrea opus is wild to me.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ambrose-akinmusire-on-the-tender-spot-of-every-calloused-moment/

I believe you'll find that she had indie diarrhea.... Brought on by indiegestion

sentimental pop diarrea opus

otm, diaryea is the fucking worst.

Diarrhea Planet was a pretty good band