Post 1566498 by brennen@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #1565412 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-11-28T20:51:17Z
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lmao does anyone take Pitchfork seriously anymore?calling an album that came out in 2018 an "instant classic" is not how anything workslike DAYTONA is a fantastic album but it hasn't even been a year, classics are made through the test of time, chillhttps://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/a18p9p/pitchfork_pusha_ts_daytona_is_an_instant_classic/
(DIR) Post #1565413 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
2018-11-28T20:53:49Z
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@staticsafe Honestly, I sort of forgot Pitchfork was even around. Are they still relevant?
(DIR) Post #1566497 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-11-28T20:55:10Z
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@ink_slinger not relevant for hip-hop at least, I don't know about other genres
(DIR) Post #1566498 by brennen@mastodon.social
2018-11-28T21:24:33Z
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@staticsafe @ink_slinger pitchfork has been a platform for hilariously overblown hyperbolic reviews (probably with a followup of totally trashing the band's subsequent) for as long as i have been aware of it.or, as i probably said a while ago, i have now been annoyed by people who are annoying because they read pitchfork for far longer than i myself was annoying because i read pitchfork.
(DIR) Post #1566499 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
2018-11-28T21:37:55Z
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@brennen @staticsafe That's a good point. They've always been that way and we should probably never have taken them too seriously, but I do remember a time when they held a particular cultural cache and Pitchfork reviews (especially negative reviews) were taken very seriously by a certain type of music fan (of which I was never really one, but always kinda wanted to because I thought it would make me cool).
(DIR) Post #1566551 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
2018-11-28T21:40:48Z
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@staticsafe @brennen As a side note, a local rapper who had some minor national success for a while was a writer for Pitchfork when he was actively working as a musician but wasn't yet a real big name. I'm pretty sure he wrote for them at the same time they were reviewing his first full-length album. That always struck me as a little weird and incestuous, but I suppose that's the music industry in general.
(DIR) Post #1566617 by brennen@mastodon.social
2018-11-28T21:40:53Z
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@ink_slinger @staticsafe in the period from maybe 1999-2005, i read a ton of music criticism. i won't say it didn't do anything good for me - it turned me on to a bunch of music, after all - but i'm now struck by how i can't even remember the last time i sought out a review of something, let alone actually took one seriously...
(DIR) Post #1566618 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
2018-11-28T21:42:58Z
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@brennen @staticsafe That's probably the era that I read the most music criticism, as well. But I had the weird habit of mostly looking for reviews of albums I'd already purchased. I don't know if I was seeking validation or just wanting to know what other people thought, since most of what I was listening to at that time didn't have a big fan base in my city so I didn't always have other fans to talk to about it.
(DIR) Post #1567515 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-11-28T21:10:33Z
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like I'm 99% sure this is clickbait targeted towards hip-hop headsa "classic" declaration is a good way to get some people riled up in the hip-hop community that's for sure
(DIR) Post #1567516 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-11-28T21:30:03Z
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speaking of classics, while y'all were excited for NGE to arrive on Netflix, they went ahead and announced a live-action Cowboy Bebop seriescan't wait to see how they ruin a fantastic serieshttps://twitter.com/nxonnetflix/status/1067644277847539712
(DIR) Post #1567517 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-11-28T21:31:47Z
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also for fucks sake stop remaking/re-releasing classic stuff and make something new thanks
(DIR) Post #1567518 by deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org
2018-11-28T22:00:51Z
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@staticsafe Is it just me, or is Capitalism leaning really hard on nostalgia to sell things now?It often feels like my childhood memories are being dug up, bastardized, and sold back to me.
(DIR) Post #1567579 by nepfag@pl.smuglo.li
2018-11-28T22:19:29.753486Z
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@deadsuperhero @staticsafe That's not a capitalist thing. It's a diversity (and therefore socialism) thing. Nigs and thots aren't crative enough to create new IPs.
(DIR) Post #1567853 by RexfordGTugwell@octodon.social
2018-11-28T22:25:00Z
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@ink_slinger @staticsafe @brennen I find reading reviews of things I've already read/listened to/watched more interesting than of things I haven't.
(DIR) Post #1567854 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
2018-11-28T22:28:09Z
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@RexfordGTugwell @brennen @staticsafe Me too, as a general rule. But I do really enjoy reading well-written reviews of terrible movies even if I've never seen them. Often, they make me want to watch the movies to see if they're really as bad as the review suggests.
(DIR) Post #1567943 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-11-28T22:07:25Z
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@deadsuperhero idk about that, might just be some form of confirmation bias?
(DIR) Post #1568174 by erosdiscordia@radical.town
2018-11-28T22:28:43Z
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@deadsuperhero @staticsafe I feel that way too. It doesn't feel like there's much love in it, or tribute to the old versions. Just a sort of heartless harvesting.Remakes can be great, but they're better when it's a labor of love. They just feel empty otherwise.
(DIR) Post #1568289 by orb@cryptids.online
2018-11-28T22:29:33Z
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@deadsuperhero @staticsafe there’s a reason why the Disney baby blanket is cheaper than the plain white one, they’re absorbing the cost to cash in big later on your programed mind...