This Scottish newspaper employs some good arts writers, but its op-ed section is a joke...
http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16169683.Brian_Beacom__Pulitzer_music_prize_judges_deserve_a_rap_on_the_knuckles/
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:34 (six years ago) link
That might be the worst piece of music writing ever.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
Jesus christ
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 19 April 2018 10:02 (six years ago) link
some excellent Scruton-ising there, it's a load of (c)rap, innit?
― calzino, Thursday, 19 April 2018 10:07 (six years ago) link
all I see there is a campaign to give Limmy a Pulitzer, everything else was just padding
― thirst trap your hare (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 19 April 2018 10:44 (six years ago) link
I imagine Brian Bee Cum is about to have a slaughter in his menchies
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 April 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link
High and low culture? Who is right when you recall Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature last year, which caused a stooshie. “Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed,” may have acutely summed up man’s sexual imaginations but doesn’t quite compare with Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
This is something of a self-own, considering that lyric could literally be a line of Steinbeck dialogue...
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Thursday, 19 April 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
I'd ask if anyone had any bets on how many previous music Pulitzer winners Beacom has listened to but you can't really bet on a certainty.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 19 April 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/album-review-jason-aldeans-rearview-town/
should be easy to see why this review is both poorly written and reprehensible (i don't buy his excuses in the comments.)
― omar little, Friday, 20 April 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
this dude
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 20 April 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
including in some songs these strange feminine (or synthesized) sighs and calls like something you would hear in the soundtrack of a 90’s-era war strategy RPG or 1st-person shooter game
what, like warcraft? is jason aldean going zug-zug
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 20 April 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
the zerg queen doing background vocals
― mh, Friday, 20 April 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
best phrase...
Among other fair criticisms...
...in which he critiques his own critique, and judges it to be a good, fair critique.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 20 April 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
new jason aldean single right here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwWh1xy6gvU
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 20 April 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
There are a lot of provocative statements in here:http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-artists-ranked-from-best-to-worst.html
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
lots of discussion about that on the Pitchfork thread but it belongs here in the HOF
― omar little, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
ctrl f trump
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
she really tried it
https://uproxx.com/music/taylor-swift-reputation-tour-legacy/amp/
― maura, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
Taylor Swift is my culture. Surely, I already knew that to some degree, but I never realized it more than when Reputation dropped late last fall. Unexpectedly in Norway that weekend, I was covering a small European music festival — or, I was supposed to be covering it. Friday morning, attendees kept attempting to communicate with me while I sat ensconced in puffy, pink Beats headphones I couldn’t bring myself to remove, wrapped up in the world of Reptuation.
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
"Waaahhh! I wrote a piece of sponsored content disguised as a personal essay and people called me an asshole for it - I'm just like Taylor Swift!"
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
That piece is better if you approach it as a satire of Taylor Swift's writing. i.e., making huge melodramatic emotional narratives out of small personal events that no one else should really give a shit about.
― triggercut, Thursday, 10 May 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
i feel like writing about "small personal events that no one else should really give a shit about" describes a lot of good songwriting, but i'm not sure what that even means really so
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 10 May 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
@triggercut the author is not that self aware, trust
― maura, Thursday, 10 May 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
eric: cf. Annie Dillard: "Write not about what you love most, but about what you alone love at all."
― moresoupial (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
in fact just keep a private journal because nobody else is going to seek out your opinions on the new tram cops record
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
otm
but i guess they have to submit some type of work to get paid
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/pusha-t-the-story-of-adidon/
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
what's so bad about that?
― alpine static, Thursday, 31 May 2018 04:05 (five years ago) link
"My favorite way to listen to music is out in the world — walking to the grocery store or uphill to class, one earbud in and the other free to hear birds calling and insects buzzing."
― Frozen CD, Sunday, 3 June 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
this lede is outrageous
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/why-are-nashvilles-brightest-stars-touring-with-the-survivors-of-one-direction/2018/06/25/6d547f80-7890-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.5c9342f325e2
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
Ooph
― triggercut, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/zm8dve/the-saxophones-unlikely-journey-out-of-meme-hell
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
woof
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
idgi
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Wednesday, 27 June 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
I would say "Noisey should stick to covering Genre X or Genre Y," but literally 99% of what they publish is hot, wet garbage.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 28 June 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/shawn-mendes-headlines-rolling-stone-relaunch-event-presented-by-youtube-music-699343/
yes i know it's a press release but.
the lede...
On July 26th, Rolling Stone will host 500 music industry insiders, influencers and a select group of fans at a raw industrial space in Brooklyn.
...would actually work pretty well as a mad lib.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
An old one. . .
Recurrence suggests an instant replay of the Railway Children's earlier album, and, in fact, it is. While the rhythms are spritely, the songs tend to sound alike -- at times like some of what Spandau Ballet was doing in the '80s, and at other times as though the Railway Children are trying to ape New Order. Recurrence's highlights, "Merciless" and "Over & Over," suggest that they are trying to do something original, only to fall just a bit short each time. Recurrence makes you wish you had a couple of aspirin to dull the effects. (four and half stars out of five)
https://www.allmusic.com/album/recurrence-mw0000200002
More of a case of actual content of the review not matching the score, but still, that's a pretty large jump.
― outside, you're never alone. (Austin), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
after the resignation of their editor last week, the AV Club apparently has nobody around to tell music writers about this wild new invention called "a single"
Burial released two of the most absorbing, darkly beautiful electronic records ever in 2006 and 2007, but rather than release a follow-up, he has spent the decade-plus since quietly firing off one- to three-track mini-albums.
He goes on to describe a release as a "split" because it has one Burial track on each side of the record.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 9 August 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
one- to three-track mini-albumslol‘Scuse me while I go ride my two-wheeled, motorless, pedal-powered, one-person car
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Thursday, 9 August 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
tbf Burial was covering Burial on each side of that Split
― President Keyes, Thursday, 9 August 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
Not long now until we can call it a side again.
"Good, gloomy industrial danceballad. Lacks vocals, but an attractive side all told. Could do some business with exposure" (Nonplus, BMI)
― Jeff W, Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
#tbt from dula peep
One of the most funny and embarrassing articles in history. Putting women against each other and speaking way too soon. It’s obvious everyone has room to grow but trying to diminish someones success just because... is a theme that rarely happens with male artists. pic.twitter.com/RTL7UDAmkf— DUA LIPA (@DUALIPA) August 7, 2018
― Frozen CD, Friday, 10 August 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
wait, are we making fun of this *fifteen year old article* or the tweet? Because I can bearly get passed the grammer...in that tweet
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 10 August 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
I looked up the article and it’s not poorly written (the Lol’z are mainly in the headline, and in retrospect). As for pitting two female artists against each other... I feel like this was a standard thing the NYT did — reviewing two albums at once and comparing/contrasting — but maybe it’s true they didn’t do it as often w/male artists (or didn’t make the contrast as stark or critical, etc.)
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
if you dorks don't think "The Solo Beyoncé: She's No Ashanti" is funny, idk what to say
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
The solo Paul Simon: he's no Leonard Cohen
― Pirate's booty call (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
xp I said the headline was funny, dude
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
Senator, you are no Ashanti
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 10 August 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
Investigating Beyoncé, NY Times Sees No Clear Link to Ashanti
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Friday, 10 August 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
Xgau stays weird about women:
Amanda Shires: To the Sunset (Silver Knife) Although premier violinist and respected singer-songwriter Shires comes by most of her current swell of fame as Jason Isbell's wife, bedrock, and babymama, you wouldn't guess it from the advances she's made in these 10 coolly autonomous, acutely turned, observantly experienced songs. Her soprano incisive over arrangements longer on echo and electronics than you'd expect from tradmaster Dave Cobb, she deals more candidly with attraction ("Parking Lot Pirouette"), lust ("Leave It Alone"), personal rivalry ("Break Out the Champagne"), and even suicide ("Wasn't I Paying Attention?") than supportive domestic partners are expected to, and hardly plays her violin at all. That's how you end up with an album that takes some getting used to not just because it's unexpected but because it's halfway to sui generis. A MINUS
― evol j, Friday, 10 August 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link