Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

Never got to the positive

that was actually mbmelodies assessing needle dropbro's faulty ideas about j-pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs81dv0y9s

A lot of people say they don't read Tyler's essays about Pavement bootlegs. They do.

A lot of people say they don't read my stuff. They do.

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i can't believe how long this guys bluster has gone on. keep negatively sub-tweeting musicians into your 40s you brave soul. you're really saving music

whenever i read about this dude and his "ideas" i think his social circle must be incredibly narrow and circumscribed because he writes about stuff in the "rock" world with no perspective or sense of proportion whatsoever. as if he had no idea that there were other taste groups, other realms of human experience.

more narrow than that, the "indie rock" world

it's like his world is coextensive with the walls of a college radio station

..and even more narrow than that, the "indie rock" world of his past

his views are completely archaic at this point

i sort of still stand behind my theory that he's behind a certain widely hated ilx poster/troll/potential sock whom i think we all know, though some v solid holes were poked it it elsewhere

in any case, yeah, his schtick is utterly pathetic, and aside from a small cult audience of TROO BELIEVERZ all his reads/video views/twitter TL scrolls are probably of the "lol i can't believe this dude" variety. its gamergate logic with less sexism (or at least less violent sexism), applied to music and music writing.

yeah chris, everyone's a sellout, p4k has corporate sponsorship (OMG NOOOO HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN *clutches pearls*) and some obscure-ass vaguely postpunk or noise or whateverthefuck bands you saw in allston or NYC when you were in your 20s are the only real musicians. real brave of you to point that out. finally, it's hilarious to think that he honestly thinks p4k cares as much about him as he does about them.

tbh it seems like a "twlight zone" premise: some revenant from my college radio days returns 20 years later still complaining about the same shit in the same terms, referencing the same bands, wearing the same t-shirts. it's unsettling and almost kind of uncanny.

how many new artists does he even take on? to my understanding he specifically targets a lot of these vaguely 90's revisionist college rock bands (Speedy Ortiz) that only a scant few people give a shit about anyway.

i guess it's his chance to have a "moment" in the scene that neglected him. whatever helps you sleep at night bud

dude's got bennies he can get treated for sleep apnea if he wants

yeah man an apnea sleep mask isn't even that expensive with decent insurance

that might be an actual problem of his tho

he's currently harrassing craig jenkins (forgive me for not knowing his poster name if indeed he is on ILX, i'm still a relative n00b) saying he "doesn't get to decide" when he gets dragged into ott going truth to power once again on yet another p4k writer (hard to feel sympathy when it's cohen tho)

he forgot take his heart attack pills

he forgot to take his heart attack pills*

oof

tbh and this can be hard bc it's really really fun to make fun of ott but i'm pretty sure this thread is the only place where anyone actually gives a steady shit about him and if we close it he might just dissolve into dust

well, that and his cloud of bizarro twitter followers i guess. you have a point. but it is REALLY fun...

must be cool to be an IT tech bro firing off hostile tweets all day about actual creative people who aren't doing anything particularly wrong. he has a lot of bennies in life

take away the bennies and this man crumbles

b-b-b-bennies! bennies and the otts!
[someone's probably made that joke already]

there's a universe where using a public enemy review that happened to run the day of the darren wilson non-indictment as an opportunity to dry-rub your ian cohen beef is less "tone-deaf" than someone calling said review "well-timed," but I'm not sure where it is. probably in hell

otm it is def in some corner of hell

i'll give him the benefit of the doubt that having a mid-life crisis can be sorta painful. it might be time to let the dream of the 90's go, ott. there's more important things

Yeah! Fuck old people. They don't understand us kids!!!!

the dream of the 90s is alive in ottland

i guess i don't see ott's current persona as being one bit different than 10 yrs ago

meet the new ott, same as the old ott

a few months ago he temporarily deleted his twitter and permanently deleted his videos and a FAN re-uploaded a bunch of them to youtube

sorry that was me

no one understands our love

Gamergate comparison otm, although: this bag of trash typed good typing about female musicians, once upon a time

I mean, in the "reminiscent of Cat Power" heyday of the early 2000s Ott was pretty great in how he covered this or that.

G'bye, tho, tbh

the ironic thing is his largely /mu/ fan base overlaps significantly with gaters so he is constantly fielding questions from them about how he HAS IT ALL WRONG (being against)

Didn't know what to do when he retweeted a post of mine last week so I played Malkmus.

ILX should hypothetically love the Ott: Dude is an A+ troll, hates corny indie fuxxors, his twitter feed is like this popular thread a lot of the time.

OK, dude is a little hung up on pitchfork minutae, but we're NEVER like that [*links to ILX posts about "why don't they show the individual writers lists"]

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will nvr 4get the day whiney held the mirror up to us all..............and we saw the mosnter within

U mean we saw the monster and ott was us

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4uzGXwwUG4

whiney I think you know full well the reasons you listed (re: how he's similar to ILX) are not the real reasons why he gets lampooned and hated on. come on.

OMG did he offer you some bennies have you been bought YOU SELLOUT

the last time Ott posted here he made a real Tanuki of himself

i thought this guy deleted his whole internet presence, why couldn't it stay deleted.

the real reasons why he gets lampooned and hated on

name your reasons why he is so bad & hated

What the world needs now
Is A+ trolls

I started paying less attention to Ott when he started spouting unforgivable classist and queerphobic bullshit on another message board, and stopped paying attention entirely when he started going toe-to-toe with whoever and whatever on Twitter with the same ""rhetoric"". This was a while ago so my points of reference are cold. Has he changed or does he still get drunk and tilt-at-windmills and bully girls and queers online? But then I have no taste for "A+ trolls"