isn't it always
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
The ultimate problem for Apple, Beats and any other media distributor is that people want to experience art for themselves. These marketers speak in terms of data, simplification, and “music discovery,” an asinine formalization of “turning on the radio.” It’s not about discovery, the “user experience,” or their “trust” in your brand: it’s about finding a way we can arrive at music, on our own terms, free of the hype, advertisements, PR chicanery, and editorial bias you’re offering. We’re not paying you to tell us what to like: we’re paying you to provide us an easy platform through which to navigate music.
Shut up, and take our money.
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 9 May 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
[guy I've never heard of and have no reason to care about]’s CV reads like [incomprehensible reference to old-ass shitty movie], and [disclaimer that just leaves me more baffled. Plucked from the back room of [???] by [namedrop of some other dude I have never heard of and don't give a shit about] in [21 fucking years ago asshole, some of your readers are that age], Rogers lived out the decade as a hybrid digital hipster [what the fuck does that mean?], parlaying his double-threat reputation as a web designer and music industry insider into a lucrative if fruitless position at Yahoo! in the early 2000s [wanks, frustratingly unable to cum]. Honing an innate talent for concept-evangelism [motherfucker what?], Rogers absorbed the slick, bulletproof jargon [come again?] of his peers in digital marketing, and set out on his own, forming [Circle Jerx, Inc., now defunct] in 2007.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Killer lede graf brah. Tell me more.
all that linguistic detritus is what makes it such a special, special article.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 9 May 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
he wrote like 11 paragraphs of backstory so he could arrive at one point about how he doesn't like the beats music app that much
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 May 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
And it's 11 paragraphs of confusing music industry inside baseball to arrive at the point that these music industry types should get out of the way and let me hear the music, man.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link
word
― Bo Diddley Is A Threadkiller (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0
― Bo Diddley Is A Threadkiller (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
this is why I only read the sub-header
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
the sub-header kind of misses the fact that beats had like a billion dollars in revenue last year. ty for your business insight chris ott of pitchfork media.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
even with that omission, I've only spent about a second on interpreting Ott today so I feel like I'm coming out ahead of others on this thread
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
sigh, otm
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
at least we got some cleese
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
sorry everyone
*sulks in the corber*
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 9 May 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
This mentality permeates Beats Music, a re-badged relaunch of MOG Music, which Beats purchased for $14 million in 2012.
wasn't MOG what Insider1 became? If so, I think technically Beats owns some stuff I wrote for Insider1 when it was a zero-ads for-love-only operation. Please send my billion dollars c/o Aerosmith
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 9 May 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
send u some bennies
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 9 May 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
lower back surgery asap plz
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 9 May 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
I thought Beats was just something Dre called his line of headphones, had no idea it was anything else, much less anything else worth money
― famous instagram dog (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 May 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
i mean beats by dre is worth money.
those headphones are a key cultural artifact of this decade.
i never heard of the other thing either. i listen to all my music on c80s and youtube and also if i want to hear something that's not on youtube i'll just sing it to myself
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Friday, 9 May 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
its fun because then you can make up words
did Ott apply to make playlists for beats and get rejected? Half the ones it's recommended to me lately we're create by h4rvell
― a strange man (mh), Friday, 9 May 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
beats by j
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 9 May 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
Maybe in seconds spent thinking you win, DJP, but in brevity of posting I believe I have the upper hand.
― Bo Diddley Is A Threadkiller (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 May 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s1qmsj
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
so wait, does he like kyary pamyu pamyu or not?
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
wow
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
Happy Independence Day, fuckers.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
I'm eagerly looking forward to TS: Chris Ott vs. Anthony Fantano
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
Lots of people say they don't read Pitchfork. They do.
busted
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
that's on some 'i can't believe you've never seen the wire' shit.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
"I never go to the P4K main page" is the new "I don't even own a TV"
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
otm
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
best new music more like best new bullshit
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
I know that "tl;dr" is annoying these days but you guys would make an exception if I used it for this, right
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
Lots of people say they don't read Chris Ott's Needle Drop rant. They do.
― ςὖτιe (some dude), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
this thing is like a year old, why
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
tbh i hadn't even heard of No Fanta until like a few months ago so i'm guessing this thing just pops back up as he becomes more well known
― ςὖτιe (some dude), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
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The Internet is real. Break the cycle.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
Surprised that nobody has a summarisation startup called tldr.com
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
"Any freelancers reading this are probably drooling right now, and they should be."
...unless they're female, in which case doing a youtube vlog with your face and voice and home decor attached is more likely to result in death threats and/or rape threats and/or stalking threats and/or actual stalking?
― katherine, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
I appreciate how Ott uses examples from everyday life to ground his high-flying cultural criticism in terms we can all understand.
"Fantano went to SCSU and is originally from Prospect, which is sort of the Connecticut equivalent of being from Farmingdale and watching fuckheads from Oyster Bay cut through your town in color-coordinated 458s whenever the LIE goes harsh realm."
― brio, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
(which isn't hypothetical at all. I follow a couple popular youtube partners -- no idea how much money they actually make, but they're close to the upper limit of success in their niche -- and several have said they are reluctant to have female guests because literally every time they've invited a female guest on she has been stalked.)
― katherine, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
xp: brio, I had to google almost all of that sentence.
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
I know what Connecticut and fuckheads are. The rest is lost on me. Does he maybe put all his writing through an online translator into Bulgarian and back into English?
― brio, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Let me explain it for you: Being from Town A is the equivalent of being from Town B and watching people drive through your town
makes totally sense
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
I did get that much as well, sorry for exagerating
― brio, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
actual lol
― dude (Lamp), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
So is being from Prospect but attending SCSU the equivalent of watching fuckheads from Oyster Bay cut through your town in color-coordinated 458s whenever the LIE goes harsh realm? Or is it simply just being from Prospect that is the equivalent?
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link