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

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

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/dog-with-glasses-retales-botijero.jpg

look I was in a heavily Mexican part of Bushwick last month

Who are the self-clowning ovens of ILX?

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

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, October 7, 2013 8:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ truth bomb.

All The Tacos Love You in New York

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

differences aren't that small here.

a profound burrito

default burrito experience imo

i used to work at 16th and Capp in SF -- got tired of burritos tbrr

burritos w/e, its about tacos

italian food >>>>>> mexican food

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

differences aren't that small here.

― excited about the intentional phallus-y (sarahell), Monday, October 7, 2013 11:25 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think we disagree

how does loving rap and hating miley cyrus equal a small difference?

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I'm not here for no Q&As. Back to awful music writing please.

how does loving rap and hating miley cyrus equal a small difference?

― excited about the intentional phallus-y (sarahell), Monday, October 7, 2013 11:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im talking about instagram selfies of folks in beanies who love rap music talking all down on miley for basically appreciating rap on the same level they do

i thought it was because they hated her music?

the two go hand in hand, we're plowing our way into strawman territory here and for the record i realize i'm about to argue with sarahell about hipsters so i'm gonna close the computer and go to sleep buuuuut ime there are people in brooklyn and elsewhere that would like miley's music if it was in a context that wasn't "a person that looks like me but who i perceive to be worse at interacting with the culture of rap music than me"

there is a broad range of aesthetics in rap music -- you'd need to be more specific to be convincing -- are you talking about stuff that sounds like Miley but the singer happens to be black? Otherwise, you're saying the equivalent of "ppl who like darkthrone and gorguts are fronting if they say that guns n roses suck balls"

http://media-social.s-msn.com/images/blogs/002a0065-0000-0000-0000-000000000000_00000065-06d4-0000-0000-000000000000_20130424224142_marky%20mark.jpg

or let's put it this way: I know more than one person making fun of miley for appropriation who makes awful jokes about twerking where the punchline is "look, I said 'twerking,' what a wacky and ironic man am I"

let's just agree that people are awful

ok katherine, you know more than one person, you win the argument!

fyi the raison d'être for music critics is shades of whiteness

at least their etre has a raison

it's almost funny but needs twerk.

put a twerk on it

did somebody do a twerking for the weeknd joke yet?