Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

But he's not even using the right witch house fonts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88zQ_sf6BMg

hey I made this choice in like 2006

oh you meant that guy, cool

if you wave this image in his face does he explode into flames

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Saw some fellow getting of the subway this afternoon, studied his upswept do and said to myself " now that, in contrast, is a happy pompadour."

There has to be some way to articulate what kind of person finds the "replace each letter in your username with a wacky symbol shaped like that letter" an interesting and unique choice in 2013

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We know how to read webtstats, son. *snicker* Yeah, we're BEGGING to inflate our worth. Money is made on valid stats, you think we fooled New Line Cinema with hocum? You. Are. Always (I can only assume). Wrong.
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noticed a response to the sexism accusation in the comments box of that everett true post - apparently, it's the people HIRING young women who are the sexists.

It’s quite sad to me that in aid of developing a justifiable ad-hominem position Jake and his pals have invented the position that I am “against female writers” and believes age is a relevant basis for debating intellectual and ethical concerns. This sort of gap-seeking, self-martyring nonsense is endemic in your circle. Stop looking for reasons to invalidate your critics and confront them word for word.

Elitist cliques pull this whenever someone says something to upset their harmonious network of fast friends trading self-celebration, reinforcing their position while circling the wagons. All I’m trying to point out here is the wagon.

The “authentic experience”-hunting brands and the portals they pay for (like Pitchfork and the NME) want young women on the wagon for far more sexist reasons than you might understand. Their reader base is 70% male. And these young women chose to put themselves in my line of sight, I didn’t seek them out.

"And these young women chose to put themselves in my line of sight, I didn’t seek them out."

ted bundy quote?

And these young women chose to put themselves in my line of sight, I didn’t seek them out.

Ok I don't know if dude is actually a sexist asshole or just an asshole but this sentence is super crepey.

haha xp

the lack of self-awareness is kind of staggering

This guy gives a bad name to all of us who

Like music
Used to play in a crappy band
Have a day job
Don't exercise or cut our hair as often as we should

lol

"giving white guys a bad name since 2003"

idk there are dudes who have non-pompadour affectations, like getting swole and having youtubes about it

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@RcmndedListen No, but I am a cancer to people who use music to draw an audience to sell shoes to.

i don't think he knows how cancers work

or maybe he just meant the crab

CANCER...

rhythm is a dancer

his bit about how you don't have to deal with the advertising venture capital world thanks to twitter and tumblr reminds me of the various glenn beck speeches railing against socialism that include a part where he goes to the library.

he adorably missed the part where tumblr was sold to yahoo for a billion dollars

Fucking venture capitalists, demanding a ROI on everything

Post your content to Twitter instead. They're clean

s1ocki otm, there's no voice as impassioned and offbase as from someone whose god failed them

you don't have to deal with advertising venture capital because kickstarter or w/e will fund your sugar ray cruise

I have no idea what post this is on or whose pal I am (I have literally never spoken to or chatted with Jake in my life), but if most of the blame for a systemic problem sustained by ad execs, CEOs and venture capitalists is placed on mostly beginning-to-mid-career female writers, and when their male writer counterparts are criticized only in terms of being pals with and/or wanting to sleep with said female writers (this isn't hyperbole, I'm pretty sure I remember a post saying some male writer was "just looking for a handjob") -- then yes, I'm going to make a wild guess and call that sexist

also, less from the "sexist" category and more from the "what the fuck is wrong with you," apparently said comments section goes and calls this one 19-year-old girl (who lives nowhere near Bushwick) a "dumb fuck" for asking what was going on and whether she should be discouraged from writing because of it, A+ everybody, fantastic work

what post is this i didn't see the link in the thread?

http://www.collapseboard.com/everett-true/christopher-j-ott-the-other-guvner/

Frustrating to see a not-always-bad-writer-in-his-time Suddenly After Years Of Playing The Game become aware of systemic culture problems like he didn't have a sentient friend to lend him an Adorno text in his early 20s and then in typical white man's burden steez start blaming the people on the lowest rung whilst celebrating his own ""enlightened"" stance, yo guys I got a job, but I am a cancer Ott OTM

If guy wants to get ahead of the curve on "music actually sucks" discussions, guy should hang out with musicians one time

old man grumbles about pop, internet destroyed

Totally

Tom, delete youtube now.

personally I'm still stuck on "frustrating to see that all of this has resulted in calling a 19-year-old girl who writes on her own blog a 'dumb fuck'". this isn't about "not liking critics attacking other critics," this is about the fact that this entire godforsaken thing has now devolved into straight-up bullying of teenage writers with blogs by grown-ass industry men at least in their thirties. (also, for what it's worth, bullying teenage *female* writers.)

wow at that link.

of the reasons to not be a music critic, dealing with those discussions has gotta number among them.

also i'm really impressed by how far he's taking the "discover the network" grassy knoll stuff:

"There is no way to confirm the direct involvement of rumored silent partner Marc Geiger of WME, but he is publicly on record as being Pitchfork’s agent for a number of years now. He is publicly on record as a board member of TopspinMedia, which shares venture capital advisement with Redpoint, a venture capital firm that financed SpinMedia (SPIN). He is further part of a succession of UCSD music directors and San Diego-area promoters along with Bill Silva and Larry Weintraub who are using music as an inroad to corral youth attention and sell it to marketers."

the elders of zion have gotta fit in somewhere around here, right?

say what you will about Ott's stuff, at least it's an ethos - having read through that Collapse Board thread I've come out with absolutely no idea what point Everett True is trying to make.

So Chris Ott = Nazism

a+ invocation of godwin can we please be finished with this now

(that wasn't a diss on you, more "oh thank god, godwin's law achieved, that might mean this is over soon"

Actually, I was spelling out what I thought was a Big Lebowski reference but sure, I'll take any reason to be done with this.

Wtf is collapse board lol there's a link on that page that's an open letter to whiney about haim

iirc in both the ott post and the whiney one true acknowledges removing expletives after posting, wonder how often he has to do that

why would music and music media be the one business without a back of house

Never ever even SLIGHTLY joke about the possibility of us collaborating on anything.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, December 3, 2013 3:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that explains Ned, let's talk about your 136 Albums of the 90s.

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You called?

Around 4.20 I was laughing so hard.

hey we've all been there

katherine sure takes writing about music SERIOUSLY doesn't she.