pitchfork being moved under GQ (no one cares)

[Danny O Flannagin]

Was listening to their 2023 year end best albums and feeling kind of meh about a lot of them. 

[YEK]

So what, no more website? 
My friend goes there to get music ideas and I bug him for that.  

[iococoi]

awww

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Anna Wintour Kept Her Sunglasses On the Entire Time She Was Telling Pitchfork Staffers They Were Getting Laid Off, Writer Says

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/anna-wintour-sunglasses-pitchfork-layoffs-meeting-1235877883/

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Condé Nast Union Members Launch 24-Hour Walkout Amid Layoff Talks

Starting at midnight EST for 24 hours, DON’T CROSS OUR CLICK-IT LINE, that means no clicks, likes, reshares on:

GQ
Vanity Fair
Bon Appétit
Architectural Digest
Vogue
Allure
Glamour
Epicurious
Self
Condé Nast Traveler
Them
Teen Vogue

[Note that other Condé Nast-owned media sites like New Yorker, Wired, etc have their own unions so aren't part of this.]

so no teen vogue-ing 2day..

[GORDO]

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On 1/22/2024 at 8:56 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Was listening to their 2023 year end best albums and feeling kind of meh about a lot of them. 

Listening to their top album of 2023 right now and sounds generic af.

[picklish2]

On 1/18/2024 at 9:55 AM, zazen said:

Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8                              (The Onion)

“Coming in at an exhausting 7,000 years long, music is weighed down by a few too many mid-tempo tunes, most notably ‘Liebesträume No. 3 In A-Flat’ by Franz Liszt and ‘Closing Time’ by ’90s alt-rock group Semisonic,” Schreiber wrote. “In the end, though music can be brilliant at times, the whole medium comes off as derivative of Pavement.”

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“It’s elitism for the sake of elitism,” said Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, who refuted Pitchfork’s middling rating, describing the entire art form as “transcendent.” “I’ve been listening to music for over 30 years, and it’s consistently some of the best stuff out there.”

https://www.theonion.com/pitchfork-gives-music-6-8-1819569318

 

“overwrought, masturbatory posturing intended to make insecure hipsters feel as if they’re part of some imagined elite beau monde.” is a line I use a lot.

Occasionally enjoyed a hatewank hour listening to the top rated albums, made me feel superior

[auxien]

[o00o]

https://www.theverge.com/24070565/pitchfork-gq-conde-nast-music-industry-change
 

[zazen]

1 hour ago, o00o said:

https://www.theverge.com/24070565/pitchfork-gq-conde-nast-music-industry-change
 

CDs cost an average of $16.98 in 1995 — about $34.84 in today’s dollars. Buying one album meant not listening to another.

Thats exactly it, music is so different now. Its everywhere, and free or cheap. But there's still lots of great stuff. I don't miss the days of paying £13 for an album on CD and then finding out it only had 3 good songs on it.