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Originally Posted by louder
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Ok, respect and all, but nobody wants a Tony Williams album.
And I am genuinely baffled by the harsh criticism of these albums. There’s like this unanimous sentiment that they’re good-not-great, and nobody has really zeroed in on what’s not great about them.
From what I can tell, “Ye” is not great because Kanye didn’t apologize for saying dumb shit. Which means that if he hadn’t said dumb shit the album would be adored. Which means the album itself has none of the vaguely defined “problems” I keep reading about. People are just mad that they didn’t get an apology. Yeah?
Nasir is somehow not good (seriously hard to process that one, as it’s clearly the best thing Nas has made in over a decade... by FAR) and that’s because of A.) the aforementioned sins of the Kanye and B.) Nas doesn’t apologize for the alleged domestic violence (if he didn’t do it, or it’s a legal matter, apologizing would not be something he could publicly do without declaring guilt, but never mind that... he didn’t apologize and he allegedly did the WORST thing so it’s tje worst of the albums.
I don’t even really like Nas that much as a rapper. I like his first album and second album and I go through phases with the rest of his stuff, but I’m not a serious fan. However, even though it’s the worst of the albums, I dig Nasir because it’s very obviously an expertly produced R-A-P album.
But hey he didn’t apologize for what he may or may not have done, so it’s gotta be bad.
Pusha hasn’t done anything “wrong” (except sell drugs and push drug culture for decades but that’s nothing compared to a spazz spastically saying they love Donald Trump in 2018), so his is the most well-received.
KTSE is well-received but with a caveat: Kanye apparently didn’t do right by her so... it’s the second-least bad but the sins of the Kanye make it still not good?
All these non musical reasons for music not being good! I had no idea music was about so many things OTHER THAN music!
I have literally wanted to be a music writer my entire life. I’ve come damn close too, as I’m now an entertainment editor for my publication. But now I no longer want that.
The music press is so fickle and full of shit, and ME? I’ve never been “not liberal enough” for ANYTHING. But goddammit, I am not going to try to end someone’s career because they don’t apologize for tweeting something stupid. And anyone who thinks it’s their place to do that is fucked. And any profession that assigns itself that task is fucked. At this point in my life I make a living writing news... and I’ll take non-biased reporting over this industry of public shaming masquerading as “criticism” any day.
Fuck all of it. I’m incredibly frustrated by this shit.
I’ve stopped visiting Pitchfork, but they’re still on my twitter feed and I see they published yet another article about the “failure” of the Wyoming project. “How can he fail this much?” They ask.
Uhhhh... he had two albums in the top 5 at the same time, but never mind that... he “failed” because you decided you needed to punish him, so you’re writinf that he “failed” over and over. That’s why. You stupid fucks.
Jesus Christ.