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Brandon Soderberg: Is 'Yeezus' the Tipping Point for Rap Misogyny? (SPIN)
Brandon Soderberg: Is 'Yeezus' the Tipping Point for Rap Misogyny? (SPIN)
Rap music clearly has a serious misogyny problem. Admitting that won't lead to the elimination of the music altogether and it doesn't mean that all other social issues have to take a backseat. But once the problem has been acknowledged, let's don't just leave the self-evident truth sitting there. Actually continue to think about this stuff. Too often, rap's misogyny has been treated as a given. And that's just as dangerous.
·spin.com·
Brandon Soderberg: Is 'Yeezus' the Tipping Point for Rap Misogyny? (SPIN)
Steven Hyden: Afterword: Roger Ebert (Pitchfork)
Steven Hyden: Afterword: Roger Ebert (Pitchfork)
But as much as he was teaching me about movies, Roger Ebert was also showing me how to write-- I became a student of clean and concise sentences that emphasized clarity and the right balance of humor, thoughtfulness, and accessibility, as well as how to shape my raw impressions into well-rounded opinions that cohered on the page into narratives. The idea that the most interesting part of a movie happens after you see it-- during the post-mortems you have with others and with yourself in your own head-- was something that carried over easily to the songs and albums I was discovering at the time.
·pitchfork.com·
Steven Hyden: Afterword: Roger Ebert (Pitchfork)
Chris Ott: The Sheep Take a Buffalo Stance (New York Times)
Chris Ott: The Sheep Take a Buffalo Stance (New York Times)
Everyone's relationship to music has changed because of the Internet, and in a way that invalidates year-in-review summaries: We rank and file music all year long on our blogs and web magazines, in the list-drenched advertorial press, and even on our iPods. If everyone's a critic, do we still need a critics' poll?
·villagevoice.com·
Chris Ott: The Sheep Take a Buffalo Stance (New York Times)
Daniel Mendelsohn: A Critic's Manifesto: The Intersection of Expertise and Taste (The New Yorker)
Daniel Mendelsohn: A Critic's Manifesto: The Intersection of Expertise and Taste (The New Yorker)
what has made us all anxious about truth and accuracy in personal narrative is not so much the published memoirs that turn out to be false or exaggerated, which has often been the case, historically, but rather the unprecedented explosion of personal writing (and inaccuracy and falsehood) online, in Web sites and blogs and anonymous commentary—forums where there are no editors and fact-checkers and publishers to point an accusing finger at.
·newyorker.com·
Daniel Mendelsohn: A Critic's Manifesto: The Intersection of Expertise and Taste (The New Yorker)
Fuse.tv: Listen Closely by B Michael Payne: Love the Music, Ignore the Message: How Critics Are Failing Odd Future
Fuse.tv: Listen Closely by B Michael Payne: Love the Music, Ignore the Message: How Critics Are Failing Odd Future
"Overall, there seems to be a critical disconnect between the way the predominantly white, male critical establishment writes about violence and misogyny—especially as it’s primarily exhibited in hip-hop, i.e., music made predominantly by black artists. Critics such as these seem uncommonly drawn to violent, misogynistic music simply because it is shocking. This thrill of novelty seems to be nothing more than a fetishization of an alien culture."
·fuse.tv·
Fuse.tv: Listen Closely by B Michael Payne: Love the Music, Ignore the Message: How Critics Are Failing Odd Future
Riff Market: Regarding Hipster Runoff's Animal Collective Post
Riff Market: Regarding Hipster Runoff's Animal Collective Post
"You can try to know, and own the fact that there are things you do not know, or you can be knowing, and hide your own ignorance with sideways shots of been-there done-that familiarity. You can understand that shit happens and try your best to keep things together and accomplish something against all odds — YOU CAN DANCE, as this album begins — or you can blow up the hospital just to show everyone that at any moment anywhere, a hospital can blow up for no fucking reason whatsoever."
·riffmarket.com·
Riff Market: Regarding Hipster Runoff's Animal Collective Post