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

Frank really has more in common with Ghandi then he does with someone like Thatcher, so go fuck yourself.

"Go fuck yourself" - Ghandi

I don't know if that's the same guy as Gandhi though.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_I5jWivtqr-k/TNGsuCNmS7I/AAAAAAAAAM4/5N1kka2Vjgw/s400/Makeup+of+garbage+graph.png

If we place the article somewhere on this graph it would most likely be in the same spot as glass on the Y axis and roughly about the same distance along on the X, though in the opposite direction.

I need to say again, this is one of the most terrible pieces of writing of any kind that I have ever read. It is truly the defence that the execrable Turner deserves.

was gonna bump Frank's v own thread for this on the grounds that it indeed isn't really music writing... but something drew me towards this one instead

"wank-bond-villain-looking villain, Adolf Hitler"

new display name btw

it's certainly punk grammar

BUY WANK BONDS

Man, if you could buy bonds in wank... imagine the shorts trading on the those.

sad. every clueless girlfriend/cool record dude cliche on one page. what if pomplamooose wrote record revieews

http://alltherecords.tumblr.com/

basically just raises my feminist hackles. yes i have feminist hackles.

But she's not a music writer? Does that really belong here? It just looks like she's having a bit of fun.

This project was my idea, inspired by maybe one too many glasses of wine last weekend, when I was in charge of changing the music. “I can’t believe there are so many records here that I have never listened to. I should try to listen to all of them. And then write about it.” So here we are.

it's in public. it's music writing. a bit of fun is fair game. i don't care if someone is an amateur. i was an amateur for years.

BE COOL ITS JUST A BIT OF FUN

it's in public. it's music writing.

if this is the criteria, then I nominate all Youtube comments

honestly that site probably gets read more than most 'professional' music writing because of its shareability (read: buying into clichés of how women experience music compared to men)

i only skimmed it cos who gives a fuck but the amount of art of pretend ignorance etc going on was bad enough on its own

faux-naive bloggy voice

oh yeah that's the one

https://31.media.tumblr.com/4c0ab27bcc2166acb1a62f7213bf3943/tumblr_inline_n1xwdcUmcR1sauz6x.jpg

the copy of INFINITE JEST and the iPhone and the coffee all in the frame is just too much

yeah but look a Richard Wright book included in sight of the camera

haha that leapt out at me too

coffee, though, really? It's a pretty popular beverage iirc

an iphone, how dare she

they must've spent hours setting up that shot, those fucking [i'm not sure, insert whatever "owns an iphone and drinks coffee and has a copy of infinite jest on bookshelf implies in 2014]

Oh hey, we have finally reached the point where "I don't even own a copy of Infinite Jest" is the new "I don't even watch TV".

lol at whiney being outraged at them owning books, drinking coffee, but totally down w/ the sweatpants

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4q2h9wWsU1qc6hm5o1_500.jpg

sicko renee zellwegger holds four coffees while reading infinite jest on her iphone kindle app.

if this is some kind of nascent blog-to-book deal that's one thing but most of the posts here have like 9 notes, some of them from her best friend

God, reading that blog is like eating (not chewing, eating) that obnoxious soft pink gum that starts out hard but ends up floury and you can't ever take it out of your mouth because it just winds up sticking to everything.

what

Just a suggestion but what if the alltherecords woman actually is that naive? And like "buying into cliches" cos they apply to her? It ws boring so I didn't read much, bt she seemed nice enough.

so this is the end result of compulsory college education. thanks, obama!

There isn't anything inherently wrong w someone (male/female/whatever) not knowing anything abt music, is there?

yes i think you nailed why people might not enjoy this blog, it is because they judge the author for not knowing about music. that is clearly what is happening in this thread.

http://www.stereogum.com/962491/deconstructing-grimes/news/

Don't know if this has been posted yet but I think it is totally the worst piece of music writing ever. Everything about it is infuriating, but nothing more so than the writer's never really qualified assertion that Grimes' "disembodied" singing is "infantilized" and means she isn't a strong female agent. Fuck ascribing literal political content to aesthetic choices. Grimes is great. She can sing like an elven robot if she wants to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DE1EfSZVIA

OK what is going on then?

Of course, Grimes’ cyborg unicorn stance is an updated ideal on the continuum of the asexuality that a certain strain of indie rock values, up to and including twee

So?

wait so is that like an updated buffalo stance

(sorry i started talking abt a new topic.)

Fine by me, that blog wasn't "music writing" in the first place anyway

Seen this being passed about pretty much with this accompanying line every time "shit band but even shittier review"

http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-twang/15140

I just hate that article so much. The writer wants Grimes to be a totally different kind of musician and doesn't even once engage with the album on its own terms.

that twang review is good in an nme eating their own sort of way

the old build em up knock em down?

the twang were awful so i doubt anyone will have much sympathy

uh I don't know what is crossposting with what anymore but julianne is a really great writer who's explained that piece before and imo doesn't deserve to be mentioned with the stuff in this thread

Idk anything abt the writer. It's definitely a competently written piece i just fiercely disagree with it.