pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

is there a fetus

That's a pretty well-written review, though.

Maybe I'm going stir crazy but for some reason this was just cracking my up yesterday: NEWS
Lil Uzi Vert’s Virtual Concert: Here’s What Happened

You'll never guess what happened: "Running through some of his biggest hits from a socially distanced livestream in Philadelphia... Uzi performed on under a Jumbotron and on a circular stage that flashed with a number of custom designs and animations" Sounds like a good time, hope he had fun!

“on under”?

imagine trying to diagram that sentence in 1968

nevertheless, he performed on, under a jumbotron

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whoops i meant
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The Worst Part of Bill & Ted Face the Music Is the Music

i mean, they're not wrong?

Unlike the original! Big Pig and Glen Burtnik 4eva.

The music is bad in all 3 movies except for Primus I guess

the worst part of pitchfork's 2010s decade listicle was the music

the premise of the fantasy movie series Bill & Ted has always been "two untalented doofuses manage to make music that offends nobody"

the bogus journey soundtrack rules

it does! i was thinking of "god gave rock and roll to you" and "two heads are better than one" -- although at least those songs are funny-bad whereas the stuff in the last 10 minutes of face the music is headache-bad.

just to say something nice, I really like the format of Alphonse Pierre's weekly rap column

"It’s Time to Take Enya Seriously"(?)

Maybe a teaser headline format like this shouldn't bug me, but it does - b/c it implies "we" haven't been taking her seriously, and my immediate response is - "That's on you, dude"

Also, I feel like the “it’s time to take Enya seriously” thing is like five years too late at this point

yeah, agree (maybe it's an excellent podcast, idk)

pivot to Enya

It's Time to Take ABBA Seriously

About 162,000,000 results (0.73 seconds)
No results found for "it's time to take yahoo seriously".

Lol Enya has been the tip since at least the mid-2000s what fucking world are these people living in

what a bunch of absolutely disingenuous creeps.

Wha?

As usual, writers labor under the burden of headlines. I'll bet the writer wanted to write a long essay on Enya's continuing relevance -- which is fine! Enya deserves longform criticism (Brad reviewed her album a few years ago). Teaching adults between 18-25 prepares you for the gaps in their education. It's not a big deal.

Imagine how many gaps could be filled if 18-25 year olds weren't writing the bulk of music writing today

enya: why is she so bad and hated

xp otm

this is from 2014: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/578-getting-into-enya-a-rough-guide-to-the-queen-of-new-age/

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"Is Orinoco Flow Yacht Rock?"

thanks for proving my point, tyler.

fuck these revisionist assholes.

"Why Are So Many Rappers Sampling This White Irish Sextagenarian? Ready or Not, Here Comes ENYA!"

adults between 18-25

Lately I feel like no one is an adult until 30. (40, if I'm feeling particularly uncharitable. Or until you've buried a parent.)

I don't consider anyone an adult until they're dead, and I'm dead too.

things that make you an adult imo: paying off a mortgage over 15+ years, surgery, death of a parent, colonoscopy, writing a will

we should start a thread

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i remember when matt groening was underground cool so i think that means i'm an adult

Lately I feel like no one is an adult until 30. (40, if I'm feeling particularly uncharitable. Or until you've buried a parent.)

I Was A Teenage Parent

wait no, we burned him

things that make you an adult imo: paying off a mortgage over 15+ years, surgery, death of a parent, colonoscopy, writing a will

we should start a thread

What Makes You An Adult?

Retrospective Pod review today. Good stuff.

Agreed, Pom. I've mostly listened to the Pod demos for the past several years, should go listen to the actual record again soon...it's one of my favorites!

It is good, but all the Nirvana/“impact on Cobain” stuff... a bit much.

(I recognize a lot of ppl care about Nirvana, but I’m not sure why that angle needs to be pushed so hard.)

Maybe, but as a 35 year-old Nirvana stan who worshipped Cobain in his tweens, it jives with, and expands on my limited understanding of what was going on musically in 1990.

I recoil from the NIRVANA CHANGED ROCK, MAN cliche, but I don't see the problem in this example.

The two paragraphs about Cobain the middle are fine; I don’t think it needed to circle back at the end. (Even if it were talking about influence on my favorite all-time artist, I’d probably feel the same way.)