https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/entertainment/r-kelly-investigation/index.html
how the hell is Michael Avenatti involved in this. we really do live in a simulation
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
de Rogitas has an article on this in the new yorker online today too
Avenatti is a grandstanding fool but good on him for this.
― akm, Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
wow @ that story
― omar little, Thursday, 14 February 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/prosecutors-are-moving-to-indict-r-kelly-after-the-discovery-of-another-videotape
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
DeRo's book is imminent (or out?). I'm not sure I'm up for reading it, which makes me a huge hypocrite, given how many books about rock and pop debauchery I've read.
https://aux.avclub.com/r-kelly-is-not-the-only-villain-at-the-heart-of-jim-de-1835080372?/setsession
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
There's an excerpt in this week's New Yorker that's really good, and contains a lot of info that was new to me alongside some fascinating stuff about how he and other newspaper colleagues actually went about reporting the story. (Of course, it does begin with "I met Lester Bangs!" - I suppose we're just lucky he didn't wedge in his story about getting fired from Rolling Stone for giving Hootie and the Blowfish a bad review.)
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 3 June 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
hey you gotta play the hits
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 3 June 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
things DeRogatis has done, ranked
1= called his wire tribute band ex-lion tamers1= ex-lion tamers tour with wire, playing pink flag in order at every show 1= all the stuff in this thread....4: the bangs book
― mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
5. calls out a bunch of female pop stars for not being good role models for his daughters
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 3 June 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
348,294,718. This critic’s take: Chief Keef is a thick-tongued, mush-mouthed rapper with little grace and stilted flow who stumbles through generic, unimaginative, frequently plodding and numbingly repetitive backing tracks bragging with little imagination and forced conviction about his bad-ass self and utter disregard for anyone else in the universe. The cynicism is bottomless; in his view, one either exploits his own community or is one of the exploited. “I’m laughing to the bank/Ha, ha, ha/I’m laughing at the slave’s life/Ha, ha, ha,” he raps. His attempts to shock with exaggerated tales of senseless violence were old decades ago, as noted earlier, already transparent by the time N.W.A lost Ice Cube and its political edge and gave us nothing but empty gangsta porn on Niggaz4Life in 1991. Forced to rate it on this blog’s own scale, it ranks at exactly zero stars.
― Detective Picacho (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 June 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
Good New Yorker excerpt.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 June 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
in short he's a terrible critic, a not-bad journalist and a good wire tribute act
― mark s, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/soulless-r-kelly-jim-derogatis-interview-838478/
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
Another New Yorker piece, now that R. Kelly's been convicted.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 00:25 (two years ago) link
I'd like to make a memorial of bad takes:
It’s not that R. Kelly was playing Pitchfork because everyone thought it would be funny—far from it. He was playing because his music matters to people, and if Jim DeRogatis wasn’t paying attention to that, that’s his problem, not Pitchfork’s, and it’s certainly not ours.
Drew Millard is an Assistant Editor at Noisey. He's on Twitter - @drewmillard
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
Yeah, R. Kelly playing Pitchfork was one of the all-time shit moves.
Even Albini knows a good guy (and a bad guy) when he sees it:
I tip my hat to Jim DeRogatis. For years, less serious music journalists looked the other way on terrifying allegations about R Kelly so as to maintain access; DeRogatis was relentless in telling the stories of Kelly's victims. Model ethical journalism. https://t.co/ZOavukwW4b— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) September 28, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
Say what you will about Jim's music criticism, but he was always a top-notch journalist. His reporting in the Sun-Times was always great.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
I forgot, Albini actually majored in journalism at Northwestern!
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
I wonder if he ever tried to pursue that path, but I digress...
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link