Why is Pitchfork's Nick Sylvester bashing Los Angeles in this Weezer review?

(Do you remember his Daft Club review?)

I like the whole approach of it's my job to review lame songs but i'm too cool for that so i'll just attack anyone and everything. And then he goes and states his argument in a reasonable manner on ILX, when that bit should've been posted on Pitchfork. But then again, Pitchfork is like 85% color anyways. Who wants actual criticism on there?

MMM I WANT TO RIDE IN MY JAG TO IN'N'OUT

WHERE'S TWEETY

HAHAHAHAHA DO YOU GET IT?!

Nick Sylvester is from a city surrounded by thufferin thuccotash.

I'm really sick n weary of all this LA hate. I wonder how many times Mr. Sylvester has visited Los Angeles, and how much time he's spent here? I have 2-3 friends who went to Harvard Westlake and I'm taking this review personally... what a way to stereotype. (And wrong choice of shoutout if you were trying to choose a school that kids from Bev Hills go to - haha!!)

Scratch my words above...there's going to be a multicultural (in the way any cross section of Angelenos can be) gang after Nick's ass...including people from H-W - if he ever comes west of Death Valley!!!

Does it still involve covering the B and the R?

Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal are gonna go medieval on his ass.

Maybe I'd be able to forgive this review if I knew Nick only had a beef with the Valley, which is where Harvard-Westlake is (and a place that somewhat deserves its bashing, sorry Chaki :)...still, that doesn't have anything to do with Beverly Hills! It's just kind of an embarrassing review all around.

Where does this "Nick Sylvester" (if that's his real name) live anyway?

lowell house is a reference to harvard u.

whatever dood the valley roolz u hollywood is ghey and only good for parties. ur not even native la you wankster. hey "you make me feel like a tyrannosaurus rex" do you really have a jag?

weezer is the best band ever btw suck mah 3 balls hatahs.

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"valley of the stars"

burbank is alright. everything else can go to hell, except oh, WINNETKA. cause i was gonna write something once that took place there haha

HUH? I've never heard or read a single nice thing about LA. Even Angelenos are pretty self deprecating about LA.

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Northwest be fun, cheaper, more green, and more grey...

I don't see how this can be permuted into 20 gazillion arguments... so sick of this shit now.

(survivor of one tragic year in Costa Mesa, m'self)

"it's still a really funny and well-written review, so hey."

It's really neither of these things. It reads like an angry livejournal posting from a socially confused high school kid. Does this guy "hate rich kids" too? And are people who have fun all "date rapists"? This piece is embarassing and says so much more about Nick Sylvester than it does about the song. Seriously, direct me to something he says that's "funny."

Oh my God. Nick, I kiss you!

Also, fuck that dude from Harvard-Westlake who stole my girlfriend! She's fat now and you're working at Aron's Records, dude! Look at me! I GO TO COLLEGE!!!!

The smug one with the odd haircut.

I've always said dean is funny but he's sort of scary too.

at one point the line up was Pat of Weezer, Atom of RFTC and Murphy of Sugar Ray, which pedigree-wise as close to an Anthony-pro supergroup as we'll ever see. Unfortunately Murphy bailed and Pat and Atom are just, ya know, drummers. Their music is pretty rote.

You should do it. We're barrel of cocaine-fueled laffs. Also, douchebags (hi Nick!)...

(xpost some harvard bullshit)

Also love Los Angeles but don't expect everyone to get it! The hating on it is quite funny now because they just don't know...

xpost

L.A. has its advantages.

The only thing worse than this song's "ironic" 1-4-5, "ironic" lyrics, and "ironic" guitar solo are the people who genuinely like it all. You know the type-- he threw the party in Lowell House last week that had "Laid" and "Instant Pleasure" and "You Shook Me All Night Long" and "TNT" and "Baba O'Riley" on his Winamp playlist. He hung "Must Be 21 to Drink" signs on the walls between his Belushi poster and the inkjet printout of Carmen Electra wearing suspenders. He made a point of telling everyone he bought Smirnoff Ice "for the ladies." He wears flip-flops year-round, studies government, and at last count, has five different nicknames for his dick.

so was "frat guys" not a term back in 05? cuz this is a lot of words

it's Nick Sylvester. Insufferably detailed and elaborate fluff/filler is his "thing" iirc.

Like this, what the fuck does this mean? I've been trying to unpack this for like 5 years:

Santa Claus, the Virgin Mary, and Terrence "Turkeytime" Terrence just got the shaft this holiday season. Why bother with presents? 2005's Tickle Me Elmo was supposed to be a chicken-legged Sri Lankan with so much sex in her self-spun neons you might as well get wasted off penicillin with Willie Nelson at a secret Rex the Dog show.

i think he was a great critic a lot of the time

unfortunately for him some of the obviously trying too hard stuff he wrote in college happens to be on pitchfork

I think he was a fucking terrible critic all of the time who mostly got off on his pseudosuperiority by dropping all kinds of obscure names and references while doing v little actual music criticism/journalism.

does he still write for anything besides the zine he occasionally links to from his blog?

God, that is an awful, awful review.

I enjoyed his stuff as one-off culture tourette's, with occasional opinions on whatever he was supposedly talking about. At the time, that was what a lot of "clever" reviewers were doing but he was just being obvious about it for effect.

You know the type-- he threw the party in Lowell House last week that had "Laid" and "Instant Pleasure" and "You Shook Me All Night Long" and "TNT" and "Baba O'Riley" on his Winamp playlist. He hung "Must Be 21 to Drink" signs on the walls between his Belushi poster and the inkjet printout of Carmen Electra wearing suspenders. He made a point of telling everyone he bought Smirnoff Ice "for the ladies." He wears flip-flops year-round, studies government, and at last count, has five different nicknames for his dick.

yeah, i... totally know the type. i mean, "instant pleasure"? more like "i instantly get what this guy is talking about".

nick s pissed off that he can't get truffle fries at the in-n-out

Is this dude as pretentious/snobby/insufferable IRL as he is in his music writing?

he's in a punk band called Mr. Dream that put out an EP I liked last year! don't know him irl though. do like his piece on HRO/Animal Collective from last year

so long and thanks for all the zings

What does this guy have against AC/DC and The Who? Right there I've lost any interest in taking anything he has to say seriously.