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

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?

here's another

http://24.media.tumblr.com/23aa8a2a566f38f9982f282b217852dc/tumblr_mfixhfcMOX1r0yh5io1_500.gif

Interesting piece in last night's Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/amol-rajan-its-high-time-london-got-its-reggae-mojo-back-8866456.html

lol that's amazing

Wow

Long experience has taught me that you have to be fabulously stoned to enjoy dub step in its purest form, it being a genre of music designed to void reggae of its main virtues: beat, lyrics, soul.

First, what a shame reggae has been near hijacked by the cult of Rastafarianism.

so bitter that Gospel has been hijacked by the cult of Christianity

Going through my reggae collection, removing anything tainted by Rastafarianism. Left with Uptown Top Ranking.

"Dreadlock Holiday" probly doesn't count

You need some Yabby You

Amol Rajan is editor of The Independent.

So wait, was this the guy that cut Simon Price loose??

No, SP worked for the Indy on Sunday - different editors.

Is he not 28 or something?

oh okay, thanks DL xp

He's very young. Just realised what his column reminds me of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXRuWshJH0c

dude i love those Paul Nicholas records

I think it might be possible for a 70s reggae fan to argue the case, in a manner that doesn't make you want to slap them, that the commercial split in the genre between dancehall and 'conscious' reggae has led to the increasing domination of Rastafarian themes - but he's falling quite a long way short here.

so in summary this dude loves Congo Natty's back catalogue but doesn't know what kind of music it is and is completely unfamiliar with its lyrical content. righto

i don't really get any sense of whether he's bemoaning the changes in Reggae's musical form or the absence of club nights playing classics or segregation in the audience or not being able to smoke weed any more tbh

not sure whether "dub step" is meant to be "dubstep" or "dub" either

In the meantime, Jah bless.

I'm sure it said "dub" in the print ed., but I might have misread

i cd've sworn the online verzh said just "dub" the first time i read it but maybe my brain elided the step

No, it was "dub step" in the paper last night (xpost)

This guy edits the Independent? Wtf?

Standard editor clearly thinking "give him enough rope" by running this imo

A previous article by the editor of the independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/amol-rajan-how-about-a-reggae-anthem-to-inspire-the-nation-8030765.html

what a weirdo

that this guy is all jah bless, while simon price is all jobless is a national scandal

New winner here. Holy fuck.

Near the end of the slow burning “Key/Hole”, for instance, he kicks in a raw cacophony and lets the guitar screech. He may not be playing with a screwdriver or attempting to make Michael Gira’s ears bleed, but throughout Night on Earth, Ranaldo takes a step back and realizes that—oh, that’s right—he was in Sonic Youth. And he thrashed.

Oh, Ranaldo's lyrics don't have the 'storytelling deftness' (actual quote, no shit) of Robert Hunter's? Ignoring for a moment the fact that Robert Hunter rarely wrote 'story' songs, it seems to me this reviewer read Lee's recent piece on the Dead and structured his entire review around the specious idea of Ranaldo and the Dust as a 'jam band,' pesky facts be damned. I get the feeling that if Lee had instead written a billet-doux to, oh, I don't know, Kriss Kross, St John might be complaining that the cadences heard on Last Night on Earth aren't as 'poignantly riveting' as Daddy Mack's.

you tell 'em, son

has this been linked yet?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/08/school-of-pop

from the comments: I kind of rely on well informed Guardian commenters to expand upon my limited range of references, as you have done.

Almost the only aspect of being paid to write columns that is not highly pleasurable is being scooped.

old dude be old

Amol Rajan should write a book on reggae. What would it be called I wonder?

Almost the only aspect of being paid to write columns that is not highly pleasurable is being scooped.

I'd imagine rereading such dogshit columns before submitting them must be quite painful too, though its clear that the reggae guy doesn't actually reread his stuff before sending it.

He's the editor of the fucking Independent. wtf.

The weird thing is that he actually seems to know quite a lot about reggae - he must have actively worked to come across as so clueless and objectionable.

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8514227.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/Amol_Rajan_crisps.jpg