THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

with no actual article in it, just an extended listicle ..

the metro on a wednesday has better (and more) reviews in it now.

strangely reminds me of Youth Suicide in a way

Magazine suicide more like

Faintly surprised it's still going.

Shit By Both Sides

surely only a matter of weeks before the content of every article is 100% emojis too

whenever i see a copy of the nme now it's part of a massive stack of unclaimed issues - is anyone even reading anymore other than the morbidly curious music journalism diehard? the most recent abc figures to the end of 2015 show they were distributing more than 300,000 copies of each issue but i have no earthly idea who might be picking them up

Walking past shoreditch high street this morning they had 3 people handing them out. Its p easy to be handed something. Reading it is another matter.

You just don't see anyone reading it. Get on the train and there are people reading Time Out and Stylist and Shortlist all over the place but you pretty much never see anyone reading the NME.

You can finish it in about 5 mins.

Ive tried. Its not even a magazine though. No reviews, no interviews, no news. Basically its some hair gel adverts and a couple pictures of pop stars or ladrock stars and oh look a bin why am i carrying this

How long is it going to last then? Surely not long now.

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Hmm, a cup of tea.

No idea what the content is like for this, but the cover echoes the previous 'Anarchy in the UK' cover in 2000 regarding the May Day anti-capitalist riots.

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the past couple of issues have been pretty political too, very critical of of the brexit vote. i'm sure it's one such voice among many within media targetted at young people, but it did make it seem slightly less redundant

i might choose to disown that comment though if the next cover is owen smith hanging out with the kooks

Did they do a cover about the referendum before it happened? because that might actually have been useful

Brexit tout seul is about as apolitical a Lib Dem talking point as you can get, hence Mr Kooks etc

I can confirm that they did cover the Referendum, yes.

The usual thing, a bunch of indie stars (me neither) saying that Remain was the way, for the most part.

I felt sure that the thread revive would be to say it was closing completely.

only a matter of time I'm sure

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Quite a good fit, they're both very brand-conscious. At the expense of everything else, except the brand.

Also, quite a lot of hidden truth in the small phoned-in subheading:

"Let the mischief commence"

mischief < Old French, noun derivative of meschever, to end badly, come to grief

I like how this cover has "F**K THE GENERAL PUBLIC" written on it, particularly since the "general public" has been saying "FUCK THE NME" for years now.

i like the devil horns from the M. have they done that before?
but yeah, gervais in 2016 making a dumb face, no.

I don't think the general public knows what the NME is.

That YouTube ad where Gervais says "Don't press skip I want to show you a trailer for my new movie" <<< FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF

If you read the interview, the highlighted comment makes sense in context.

You know that, of course.

up next: The New Corden Revolution

OK, this thread will do as the search function is broker.

This weeks NME has an article about Lego. Why? Because of how its used in the Lego Batman movie.

Stormzy is going ham on NME on Twitter right now with some justification.

@Stormzy1

You lot know I don't rant or open my mouth up for no reason but serious @NME magazine are the biggest bunch of sly, foul PAIGONS.

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@NME They've used me on their cover without my permission. Depression is a very very sensitive issue and it's something I've spoken about

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@NME it is a subject that isn't the easiest thing to speak about. And I've been careful in how I've dealt with it in the media

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@NME after I spoke on it I realised how widespread the issue is which made me think ok kool maybe that was the right thing to do at first

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@NME However using my face as a poster boy for it to sell your magazine is so foul and below the belt I will never respect you lot

Is anyone even reading it these days

How can it possibly have survived this far into 2017

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@NME You lot are a bunch of real life fucking pussyholes. Proper dickheads. We've had a good relationship before this, why do you think

@Stormzy1 48m48 minutes ago

@NME it is kool to use my me as a poster boy for such a sensitive issue without permission? You lot have been begging me to be on your cover

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@NME and you go and do it in the biggest pussyhole, sly way possible. Bunch of fucking paigons

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=paigon
Top Definition

paigon

friend that lies betrays and isnt true to u

drini: u wana cum cinema
dina: na i woz feelin sik all week includin toai so am stayin home
drini: k den

- hour later drini is walkin to the cinemas-

drini see's dina in the near by shop wiv sum of her frenz drini thinks omg wot a PAIGON SHE LIED TO ME DAT BITCH

they're still printing over 300,000 issues a week - in fact, the latest abc figures show a rise in circulation from july to december last year

where is the money coming from?! i'm starting to wonder if the continued existence of the nme is some kind of the producers-style high-concept scam

lol! paigon is one of them funny words that make me irrationally giddy.

Paigon is clearly this generation's great insult for many many reasons. Just incredibly verbally satisfying.

The editor has been on Twitter trying to smooth this over and is both lying and taking him for a moron, arguing that because they're a freesheet they aren't trying to shift copies.

Do you pronounce it like Miss Paigon or like a paigon ritual?

i assumed it was derived from pagan but maybe not? it is an excellent word

sometimes spelled pagan fwiw

need to know the etymology too

nme remains trash obviously

Where the fuck are they putting these 300,000 copies? Cos I never see them around. Are they still distributing them via university campuses?

they are, according to their abc info

the rest get dumped in canals up and down the country i assume

never seen one in scotland

They give them out at London train stations. I think I even read one once.

i've seen a copy left on a bus now and then

i've seen some in fopp on byres rd i think, and i've seen them in glasgow uni and some shops in town too. mind you i'm always surprised whenever i do happen across a pile of copies

saw some in an eastbourne record shop last year, never on a campus though.