xp yeah but that's his POINT do u c and i daresay feeding into that in any way has you playing his game more than vice versaoh wait E.D. Sedgwick, I get it.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 August 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
public ass writing indeed
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 August 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
we now have multiple guys from Dischord bands debating jazz music in the pages of the Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/08/11/all-what-jazz-or-how-to-declare-something-dead-without-listening-to-it/
― some dude, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
rolling jazz & satire are dead thread 2014
― noballs (wins), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Waiting for Ian MacKaye to chime in in all caps.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
COMPETE COMPETE DO IT FOR THE BOYSJAZZ SAXOPHONISTS MAKE THE MOST NOISE
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
the #2 google hit for me for "are we being ironic" is are-we-being-ironic-or-not-i-dunno anthems of a future generation
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
Eddie Sedgwick would have been better now that i'm thinking about iti'd like to stop thinking about it.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
filler review from All Music for Rigor Mortis's s/t:
" Review by John Book
One of the few death-metal bands to be signed by a major label with their first album, they were dropped due to "poor" sales. It's an amazing album."
― Neanderthal, Monday, 18 August 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
Are there lots of 'community sourced' reviews on all music? I notice a lot of the more obscure reviews are way below the site's typical standards.
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Monday, 18 August 2014 08:33 (nine years ago) link
They seem to have less and less reviews every year now, and the length and quality is often dropping.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 August 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
Before launching into his second song of the evening, D’Angelo took off his jacket to reveal his frame. Once almost shockingly fit – a tiny person could scale the abdominal muscles on the Voodoo cover, if one were able to survive the overpowering sexuality of it all – D’Angelo, 40, is carrying some extra weight these days.
And so is his music.
― maura, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
jesus
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
OMG a piece of writing about a male pop star* which treats his body with the same level of objectification that female pop stars are just routinely subjected to!!!1!11
*Yes, I know, before you all jump on me: Racial implications are complicated. But still.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't think writing fallen Mandingo fanfic is the route we want to go down to combat sexism but that's just me.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
"And like his pendulous man-tits, D's newest joints wobbled in the deepening Brooklyn night before heaving skyward for a thundering and elephantine climax that left even his hungriest fans emitting soft burps of approbation"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
Heavy beats, weighty lyrics, fat low end
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I know, it's racist tripe, and crossing another line into dismissive in a slightly sexist way towards his implied fans, in the way that "Serious Music Journalist Snides at Act Perceived as Popular With Women" always does.
(I still laughed though).
((I am admittedly a terrible person))
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Exactly how much do you know about D'Angelo?
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
I don't feel like having that particular clusterfuck today, so point taken. Peace out.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
I haven't personally seen reviews that drift off into dreamlike sexual fantasies mid sentence regardless of the gender in question.
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure that sort of idiot shit happens more to non-white male artists than you might guess, esp in the coded "intimidating size/physically imposing" way applied to rap dudes that i see way too much. nobody every led off a review throughline with Glenn Frey getting paunchy.
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
"OMG a piece of writing about a male pop star* which treats his body with the same level of objectification that female pop stars are just routinely subjected to!!!1!11"
yes thank you for this sophisticated 'two wrongs make a right' analysis, well done
― maura, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
gonna go google "d'angelo tiny abdominal muscles" to find out whether this publication is bigger or smaller than a breadbox
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
ooh, bigger
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
I'm even struck by how his face has a vague resemblance to a Nazi helmet — that sleek, matte finish, that dull glans sheen.
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
oh gross.
― how's life, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
shine bright like a cock head
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
well THAT was fun to google
― da croupier, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
how can sheen be dull and matte?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
that's fêted pop critic simon reynolds btw, seemed relevant
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
to the discussion, I mean, obv
can't believe Parade Magazine published these
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
briefly tempted to go with "fallen Mandingo fanfic" dn, reason won out
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
― EZ Snappin,
he has been ever since he left "Spin City"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
badabing!
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bite.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Clap-clap-clap.gif
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Jody Rosen (the other one) posted this on Twitter this morning, and it's a pretty good demo of a person who just yesterday started listening to pop/Beyonce deciding to write about it: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/26/beyonc-is-our-indigo-girl-the-halcyon-90s-and-feminism-s-resurgence-in-pop-music.html
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
it reads like the work of someone whose knowledge of everything they write about in that feature was sourced entirely from wikipedia this afternoon.
― you couldn't even wear a fedora if your lifes depended on it (stevie), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
En Vogue had a standout hit on their own that continues to be a great feminist break-up record in “Never Gonna Get It,” a predecessor to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” in the realm of songs empowering women to tell those disrespectful ex-boyfriends where they can shove it.
this mix of declarative flatness with calculated informal breaks is exactly how my students write for the paper.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
idk what people mean by "feminist" anymore
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
fortunately neither does anybody else apparently
Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
idk Marcotte doesn't usually write about music, does she? It's certainly better than when political op-ed writers would talk about gangsta rap groups like Nine Inch Nails.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that piece may have been banal but it's not like the writing or the thesis is worthy of this thread.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
I know that piece doesn't exactly reek of in-depth musical expertise, but if prominent feminist writers want to sometimes write a column about feminist messages in music, that seems fine with me.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
not that they need my approval, definite poor choice of words on that. Just mean that it's weird to see it show up in the worst music writing thread, right after the piece about how D'Angelo used to be capital-S sexy and then he gained weight
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
I'm fine with it too, but not if it means disregarding entire eras of music (Rosen's Twitter feed spells it out pretty well what's wrong w/ it).
I'd rather discuss (and mock) pieces like this rather than the college paper shit that usually gets posted in this thread as of late.
(and I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Marcotte, I'm still bitter about how she's handled criticism from feminist POC about various issues).
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, fair point. I'm not a huge fan of Marcotte either.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
this jody rosen? http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/beyonce-the-woman-on-top-of-the-world/
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link