oh wait, there's like a half dozen people who do this schtick already
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, June 14, 2016 3:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there are?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
are there people on ILX who say "my guy" at the end of a sentence? just wondering, my guy.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQK6t2Esng
― maura, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:38 (eight years ago) link
DORKS WHO SIGN THEIR POSTS LIKE IT'S A FREAKIN EMAIL
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
guilty.
Ludo
― Ludo, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 09:46 (eight years ago) link
bring back Old Fart
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 10:53 (eight years ago) link
Both Sky and Madonna have similar breasts in both cup size and ability to cause a shitstorm. When Ferreira dropped her debut, Night Time, My Time, three years ago, the bare-breasted album cover nearly broke the internet. Misogynists claimed it was a desperate attempt to sell records; feminists saw it as the calculated move of a defiant young woman. A third unnamed group that included me couldn't help but reminisce on the past, on Madonna's defiantly atomic boobs — the two knockers that altered the course of human history.
http://www.laweekly.com/music/sky-ferreiras-sex-appeal-is-what-pop-music-needs-right-now-7027759
:(
― Evan R, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
ew
Even in the candid photo of her nude in the shower, soaking wet, she looks natural, like she's shooting a home video, rather than being photographed by a creeper. She looks like a more cherubic Sharon Stone, icy but also sweet, like a freshly licked lollipop.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
o_O
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
..........what in the actual bloody fuck
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
Welcome to "Art Tavana vs. the World," a monthly column in which L.A. Weekly's angriest (and nerdiest) music critic, Art Tavana, takes on his many nemeses in an ambitious quest to boldly go where no other critic has gone before.
this is the text equivalent of the jerk-off hand motion.
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
a nerd edgy and ambitious enough to call robb stark a pussy
wow the la weekly ran something shitty, what a surprise
― maura, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
i guess this guy had to stay erect after writing a cover story on sasha grey
― maura, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
the thing is it's getting traffic and i know from experience that the paper's upper management only cares about clicks
so, you know. fuck it
Read that as:
the thing is it's getting traffic and i know from experience that the paper's upper management only cares about dicks
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 17 June 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
six of one
― maura, Friday, 17 June 2016 20:02 (eight years ago) link
dickbait
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 17 June 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
right-dick to save image
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
the funny thing is when you realize that y'all are the only target audience for this stuff
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
You mean, we are the dicks?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
don't give them your rage-dicks!
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
this guy's article history reminds me of all the things i hate about l.a.
― R.I.P. Haram-bae, the good posts goy (s.clover), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
(also went to look at the independent article and looks like the editors took it down. was there a statement or something or did they just "whoops" away the thing because it was getting clowned?)
― R.I.P. Haram-bae, the good posts goy (s.clover), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
Even in the candid photo of her nude in the shower, soaking wet, she looks natural like a terrified young woman about to be butchered by a man wearing a mask made of skin
― Wimmels, Friday, 17 June 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
Wait so was the guy in the Independent thing ending every other sentence with "b" because he was so street?
― On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 17 June 2016 23:29 (eight years ago) link
pfft
LA Weekly Music @LAWeeklyMusic 1h1 hour agoSeeing feedback to the @skyferreira story & tweet. We hear you. We truly didn't mean to offend & will address further in an upcoming post.
― nomar, Friday, 17 June 2016 23:40 (eight years ago) link
"like a freshly licked lollipop"
this has to be the worst five words ever written by anyone anywhere ever in human history
― alpine static, Saturday, 18 June 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
story is still up of course
― nomar, Saturday, 18 June 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
takes on his many nemeses in an ambitious quest to boldly go where no other critic has gone before.
We truly didn't mean to offend
does not add up.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 18 June 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link
i must have confined myself to a weird life/internet bubble for way too long, cuz i can't imagine anyone writing or publishing such a thing. it feels decades out of time.
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 June 2016 02:14 (eight years ago) link
"Both Sky and Madonna have similar breasts in both cup size and ability to cause a shitstorm."
either this guy is also bad at metaphors or I just learned a lot about the sort of pornography this guy watches
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 18 June 2016 02:42 (eight years ago) link
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Friday, June 17, 2016 10:14 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
exactly this
― Wimmels, Saturday, 18 June 2016 02:44 (eight years ago) link
also it is indicative of 2016 that an article like this can contain both "she looks... sweet, like a freshly licked lollipop" and "I'm not trying to otherize this woman"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 18 June 2016 03:08 (eight years ago) link
Nothing matters in 2016 and there will be zero consequences for anyone involved, btw
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 18 June 2016 04:03 (eight years ago) link
consequences = dude had to make his twitter private
― mookieproof, Saturday, 18 June 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link
L.A. Weekly's angriest (and nerdiest) music critic
is this not f@ntano?
― dyl, Saturday, 18 June 2016 06:21 (eight years ago) link
Nothing matters in 2016 and there will be zero consequences for anyone involved, btw― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, June 18, 2016 5:03 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, June 18, 2016 5:03 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tbomb
― Oh baby, if only you knew / Gabnebb hit a hundred-and-two (stevie), Saturday, 18 June 2016 11:42 (eight years ago) link
there's an apology piece on L.A. Weekly and the comments section, though it only has half a dozen comments, somehow became a bat signal for MRAs whining about SJWs. http://www.3danvil.com/emoticons/jerkoff.gif
― nomar, Sunday, 19 June 2016 00:39 (eight years ago) link
http://www.laweekly.com/music/about-that-sky-ferreira-piece-it-crossed-the-line-and-were-sorry-7043581
This comment though:
lol this "apology" is too much: within the first paragraph, they cite the one male response to a sexist, misogynist piece as "the most damning and cleverist" and they express amused shock that "even" Teen Vogue took them to task, and even Teen Vogue was right--even those silly little young women seem to have big ol' brains!
"My biggest regret, in all of this, is that WE *MAY* HAVE MADE PEOPLE *FEEL* like L.A. Weekly is a publication that doesn't take women or women's issues seriously."So classic, so elegant. The Little Black Dress of non-apologies.
― Frozen CD, Sunday, 19 June 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
it is depressing and sad to read the twitter replies on the L.A. Weekly Music account. somehow this piece and the backlash was picked up by the gamer gate crowd, and there are some vile opinions on there from some vile shitstains.
― nomar, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link
oh god m1l0 picked it up. that dude...
― maura, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
Tavana's piece did cross the line. It was offensive, and on behalf of him and L.A. Weekly, I apologize for it.
I am not here to make excuses; instead, I will say that, in this line of work, we make judgment calls on what to say and how to say it all the time, and sometimes we get it wrong. This time, Tavana and I got it wrong.
struggling to see how this is a "non-apology" rather than an just an apology
― soref, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link
xp
ugh xxpost
― nomar, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:58 (eight years ago) link
I will never read this terrible article but the controversy reminded me of sky ferreira. her most recent album is like a treasure trove of rad power pop
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
"Nobody asked me if i was ok" might be my favorite. I suspect a bunch of ppl think of it as a secret personal anthem - something to listen to when you reminisce over old grudges
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:05 (eight years ago) link
yeah Night Time, My Time is amazing. Can't wait for the next one.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:15 (eight years ago) link
Yeah. It was annoying to me at the time that the album was overshadowed by discussions of the cover art, which in any case I thought people misinterpreted. There was a lot to say about that collection of songs: the record struck an interesting balance between engaging/foiling audience expectations and just being its own thing, which is tough thing to pull off in a highly anticipated debut album that was pushed back a bunch of times. I hope the writer of the LA weekly piece chokes on a pretzel. Not lethally, but enough to give him a good scare and maybe embarass him a little.
― Treeship, Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:43 (eight years ago) link