Power Rankings: 10 Reasons I hate a Village Voice article

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Tito

As Young MC once said, “break it down for me, fellas”. And so I do. If only.

Reading this piece of Village Voice “I’m slightly more aware than the supposed hipsters I’m pandering to” journalism, I struggled1 to continue to the Okkervil River payload promised in my goolge alert. But dammit. Three paragraphs of what is/is there such a thing as “indie”2 before I can get to anything even remotely apparently about music? And then all I get is some kind of Radiohead3 messianic rhetoric that just brings back bad memories.

In closing, I leave you with a list of words & phrases that Mr. Brad Gladstone (or is it Camille Dodero — can’t quite make out the byline hierarchy) foisted upon us (me) which are tell-tale markers of vomitorious4 music writing:
1. asymmetrical haircuts
2. sublimated self-loathing
3. commodifying
4. accelerated culture
5. mimetic (2x !)
6. anomie
7. neo-traditionalism
8. signifiers
9. “meta” (in quotes, no less)
10. Barthelmesque

And to prove that I’m not just a hater:

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1 If you read past this point, it’s your own damn fault. Really. It’s all down hill from here.

2 A debate I’ve been bored with since high school debates about “Alternative” music in a post-REM world.

3 and why no praise for DJ Quick’s “If it don’t make dollars, it don’t make sense” in lieu of Thom Yorke?

4 aka “The Pitchfork Thesaurus”. And no, this does not make me anti-intellectual. I like the big words. I don’t like the bullshit.

» Filed Under Music, Power Rankings, Words (In Print) I Hate

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One Response to “Power Rankings: 10 Reasons I hate a Village Voice article”

  1. villagevoice on November 4th, 2007 9:32 pm

    The author of the piece you hate so much is Bret Gladstone. FYI

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