OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

Thanks Doran. I wasn't saying I don't write for Quietus as a big "fuck no", just a statement of fact at the moment. I didn't twig that he'd confused Dorian with Doran so I was just baffled.

Anyway, what do you have to say about misogyny in heavy metal you big hypocrite? j/k

What's wrong with being sexy? is my initial response.

I had a piece on dubstep submitted to me once by a very well respected scribe who claimed that any misogyny in dubstep and grime was caused solely by the influence of one scene DJ who used to be a metalhead and that it had to be "that whole Beavis and Butthead thing" that he'd brought over with him, like the shipbound rat who brought the black plague to Norway in 1349. So there you have it 'Bell Dem Slags' by The Newham Generals - obviously the fault of Manowar and/or Tankard.

"the black plague" being the "black death"... my true white supremacist black metal nature shining through unfortunately for a second there.

wait, Manowar are gay shurely?

I believe they're very happy at what they do, yes.

All rock and roll is homosexual. Apart from Cold Chisel.

I had a piece on dubstep submitted to me once by a very well respected scribe who claimed that any misogyny in dubstep and grime was caused solely by the influence of one scene DJ who used to be a metalhead and that it had to be "that whole Beavis and Butthead thing"

Kevin Martin getting the blame?

*Everybody* knows Haim are terrible. And they’re Tories to boot.

What

Scuba? (xpost)

Apparently people are taking the fact that they posed with Cameron because they were booked on a show together after dedicating a fairly meanspirited song to him as deeply indicative of their politics.

XP: It wasn't Scuba but you're along the right kind of lines. I can't even remember the guy's name but he used to be in some Kerrang! style band for five minutes "back in the day".

for those not reading the Haim thread
http://www.collapseboard.com/everett-true/haim-an-open-letter-to-christopher-r-weingarten/

whiney has now replied

And you're the kind of girl I like / Because you're empty and I'm empty / And you can never quarantine the past..
And if I go there, I won't stay there / Because I'm sitting here too long

^^ the haim debate imho

All rock and roll is homosexual. Apart from Cold Chisel.

m8, "when the war is over" is a bit of a poofta song

also, while I'm here, just gonna point out that Everett True *chose* to live in Brisbane

this means he *chose* to live in an almost culture-less city because anything more would distract from furiously typing out pissweak troll blogs

@jordansarge 8h
if you're a white hipster who denies miley cyrus it is because you have a superiority complex about your own appropriation

@jordansarge 8h
if you go to cool brooklyn dance parties you will see much sloppier racial appropriation than what miley cyrus has done

@jordansarge 8h
there is institutionalized racism in miley cyrus' visuals but at least as a pop star she is forced to reconcile with her decisions

twitter was the worst thing to happen to music journalism since the internet

"cool brooklyn dance parties"

but what if you're a white non hipster who doesnt like it?

i had an answer to that in the other thread

white tweeter

when did you stop tweeting you're white

twitter was the worst thing to happen to music journalism since the internet

― Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Monday, October 7, 2013 7:52 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

that was not music writing (or else i would have wrote something!)

Using "cool Brooklyn dance parties" as a counter-weight to your argument is gonna allow you to reach all kinds of places

Cool Brooklyn Georgetown cocktail dance parties

having lived in brooklyn for 8 months i can confirm that nothing here is cool

literally nothing

your Mexican food is cool

the weird old stationery and technical office supply store down by the fulton st. mall is pretty cool

white hipsters move to brooklyn, complain about white hipsters in brooklyn

yup

the first of those tweets is maybe a bit sloppy but the last two seem otm to me?

where brookyln at?

(a cool dance party)

This sounds like the worst thing

i swear to god all this shit about riff raff and miley cyrus is just like going through that entire cycle of history all over again

the script is already written, but everyone under the age of 27 has cultural amnesia

besides the fact that jordan's argument paradoxically sets him falling exactly into the trap he decries (and honestly I thought he was smarter than that -- white people decrying white people doesn't become any better when you add a layer to it, no it gets even worse), I'm not sure how it's helpful to a) bring up an extreme example from almost ten years ago as if that's any sort of norm or excuses anything else (I mean, come on, you can't take issue with miley because tha pumpsta?) and more importantly, b) ignore people of color in those scenes?

I mean, I'm sure if there are black people in Brooklyn, and that's a big if, none of them ever go to cool dance parties.

I just posted a link! I didn't editorialize! It was more a "circle of life" type comment than anything else.

yeah jordan's argument is funny as an observation of the narc of sd required to be a hipster who loves rap / wears vaguely hip hop clothing & who really really hates miley cyrus

but as a defense of miley cyrus it doesnt work b/c godwin's law

jordan's argument works bc it's obv satirizing how identity issues in pop culture are always subordinate to taste + preference. appropriation is only a problem when it's aesthetically unappealing.

you cant separate aesthetics/taste from identity issues tho (although white ppl are more likely to pretend you can ime)

or, i should say, u can't always, although there are plenty of hypocrisies that crop up when ppl try to act as if they're always completely overlapping

your Mexican food is cool

mexican food in new york is warm bullshit

but Brooklyn isn't New York is it

look I was in a heavily Mexican part of Bushwick last month and after an afternoon of scotch a buddy's girlfriend disappeared and returned with $5 worth of mole and chicharrones and I proposed to her.

lol haven't gone so far as bushwick but i took a trip back to san francisco last year and confirmed the difference in burrito quality is genuinely profound

a profound burrito

of all the things to brag about in new york mexican food is at the bottom of the list