pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

The Teena Marie review is great (I feel like an, er, broken record, lol).

p4k should branch off into an oldies site that just does Sunday review type stuff 7 days a week

honestly, they should just wait 20 years before reviewing new albums, and then give ‘em the retrospective treatment.

(btw, brad – your Prince review is tremendous!)

p4k should branch off into an oldies site that just does Sunday review type stuff 7 days a week

Their "classic album" last Sunday was the infamously slept-on 21 by Adele. Hmmm.

Critically it was stepped on.

the sunday review is often a very good, slept on record. but iirc the idea behind it was to feature any noteworthy album, good or bad, that's not in the review archive.

(not making a judgment on adele: i have only heard that one really awesome song that everyone loves)

the Bond theme?

"what's my age again"

honestly, they should just wait 20 years before reviewing new albums, and then give ‘em the retrospective treatment.

(btw, brad – your Prince review is tremendous!)

― I Hate the Aedes (morrisp), Sunday, October 4, 2020 11:05 PM (yesterday)

Yeah, Brad's review of "Sign 'O' The Times" is up there with Michelangelo Matos' 33 1/3 book in regards to the best written works about The Purple One. Reviews like that are why I check Pitchfork each day.

p4k should branch off into an oldies site that just does Sunday review type stuff 7 days a week
Their "classic album" last Sunday was the infamously slept-on 21 by Adele. Hmmm.

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Monday, October 5, 2020 6:02 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

ya and it was really good... what’s ur pt

"Disco, invented by people whose existence was uncertain, was a way to turn fantasy into fact."

The conditions of their existence may have been uncertain, but they did indeed exist.

are you sure

Ontological and Epistemological Certainty (12" Disco Mix)

ya and it was really good... what’s ur pt

Half the Western world owns a copy of it, and it came out relatively recently. There's no need whatsover to be poring over it yet again when that slot could instead be used to tell us about a great record that relatively few people know about.

Review don't exist simply to tell people that records exist though

Brad's write-up is amazing, I love that the enthusiasm is tempered with this kind of academic distance

it's a real good piece; nails the best tracks imo

I'm with jon123 on this— it's really, truly not in anyone's interest to read another goddamn thinkpiece on fucking Adele.

rollie pemberton on freestyle fellowship, killer

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/freestyle-fellowship-innercity-griots/

Pitchfork fired me...

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” Wasn’t Submitted for Grammys 2021

This tweet is like mainlining a cold can of Pitchfork Classic

.@MaryLattimore has the ability to pluck a string in a way that makes you instantly remember the taste of your fifth birthday cake https://t.co/cVCg6gW4b2

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) October 13, 2020

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” Wasn’t Submitted for Grammys 2021

**BREAKING**

― Guitar Dick (morrisp), Tuesday, October 13, 2020 1:25 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It took two people to write this piece

Collaboration with Propublica?

one to google, one to re-write

Nuts - they moved it way down to the bottom of the page (lol).

I'll make the obvious joke: that song's gonna be one DAP when it finally shows up at the 2022 awards.

fp

ooooh that mary lattimore tweet is some good stuff

i never got a fifth birthday cake, what are they like

I’ve eaten five in one sitting, is that what it means(?)

(mary lattimore is great though everyone should listen to her!)
(just not fifth grade bday cake great)

5 birthday cakes out of 5

saddest birthday was when i got a 3.75 cake

9 cakes but no BNM 😢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p42cTOZbA1Y

Pitchfork lost interest in Cakes before his first album even came out
https://pitchfork.com/artists/30310-cakes-da-killa/

Looks like we have to give them credit here!

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/cardi-b-megan-thee-stallion-wap-grammy-award-1234803271/

the news was first reported by Pitchfork.

The Sunday review of INXS's Listen Like Thieves is very good. I thought this analysis was particularly dead-on:

Stacked with eminently catchy songs from top to bottom that sound evergreen in ways that evaded so much pop music from the same era, Listen Like Thieves is a classic “verge album”—think Fleetwood Mac, Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger, R.E.M.’s Green, or U2’s The Unforgettable Fire—a mid-career highlight where a fully formed, fully confident band finds its footing at the precipice of something much bigger and maybe just beyond their control.

Albums like this are often my favorite in a band's catalog. Badmotorfinger definitely is.

I wish the writer had been willing to admit that yeah, the heir to INXS's throne really kinda is Maroon 5, but otherwise a really well-done piece.

The 1975 are the true heirs

I enjoyed this a great deal. When I had to review Kick for Pitchfork three years ago, I tried suggesting that LLT is the superior album.

Longform: Rethinking Appropriation and Wokeness in Pop Music

I read this, and found it... confusing, not just on the level of individual sentences ("The neoliberal obsession with individualism crystallized, and focused growing social justice discourse on celebrities and eventually, to the burgeoning class of influencers made in their image"; "The visibility of artists offered an accessible entry point through which to understand discrepancies mitigated by the parameters of race"), but also just the overall thesis. That said, it was clearly written by, and for, people who are deeply engaged with the minutia of online discourse around these issues -- and so I guess "not for me." But insofar as it is a lot of intense writing that barely touches on "music" (or the enjoyment of music) at all, it left me feeling kind of hollow and bummed out.

something is deeply wrong when people care this much whether WAP is grammy nom'd

yeah it's almost more annoying now that the Grammys try to be quasi relevant was at least funnier before when they gave best rap record to Wyclef's guest appearance on a Tony Bennett song

i've never understood who watches the grammy's or thinks they reward the best music

same people who cared about Taylor's pitchfork score

Also the people who see that Grammy recognition often ties to a career bump for those able to exploit it

in the short term it also translates to a concrete bump in streams/sales

i agree that the grammys make sense to the music industry

it seems to work out pretty well on their end. it's the viewer that confuses me

I think it’s cool when artists I like win Grammys, but I don’t live or die by it.