See, that's where i think your argument get's a bit fishy.
1. How is "chart success" a criterion for "best song"?
2. Apparently "Round & Round", by topping that list, was more critically acclaimed, as it was determined by a voting process by a large group of music critics (all contributing to the same site, but none the less)
3. I'm pretty sure I've replayed "Round & Round" a lot more than "Runaway". How do you define re-playability anyway? Heck, one of my most-listened-to songs of all time is "Clara" from Scott Walker's The Drift, which, I guess, isn't what you'd call "catchy" at all, if that's what your definition of "re-playable" is.
4. "impact" is quite hard to predict in the long run anyway. I recently did an 80s playlist for a friend's party and discovered that the 80s covered so much more ground than you'd accredit them for, and I think that that's one of the aims of lists like this one.
But enough already. I'm gonna be spending the rest of my day eating cookies and watching dog gifs on tumblr now.
I have to admit that I fell for Grimes this year – and i actually agree with her top spot in this list. Also, Jasmine on #10 gave me tons of joy!
Say about Pitchfork what you want, but this list is pretty much spot on
P.S.: I DO agree with the lack of Perfume Genius on any end-of-year list so far!
I agree, rather than having weeks and weeks of "best albums of iconic band xy" and then major articles like this one or the deconstruction of Sufjan Stevens and Christian music all crammed into one week is a bit much. I think stereogum would highly benefit from sequencing the publication of the individual features a bit better.
This was a great read, however.
Yes. Popular culture seems to be so much more reasonable than this.
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"so we’re probably not going to be posting her stuff that much here anymore. And it’s not even that there’s anything wrong with that stuff; it’s just several galaxies removed from what Stereogum usually covers"
I think I'll copy and paste this the next time you feature Lana del Rey's latest venture into I-don't-know-what.
I agree, and think Doug pointed out something very vital here: " I’m 34 and am a member of the generation that came before yours, Doug — the one that has this crazy idea that we should be paid for our work". If people would get properly paid for their work, they'd have money to spend it on things like CDs and going to concerts. But with the economy being as it is, who can blame people for not spending money on something that they can find for free on the internet. This is a vicious circle. To blame music listeners doesn't call out those who cause the problem.
I frequently buy music and go to concerts – But certainly didn't pay for every track on my computer. I would have to stop eating if I'd want to continue consuming music the way I've gotten used to. Do I wish that was different? Sure. But well, with the money being as unevenly distributed as it is, I don't see that happening.
Come on Stereogum. Can't you find somebody cool and/or at least interesting to pay you? I think this Lana del Rey meme has officially jumped the shark at this point.
Why does nobody mention the dude in this photo with LiLo? Everything about him, from his facial expression to the position of his hand in his pocket is just perfect!
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I don't know... I think the problem with Chris Brown is that he has basically made a career out of being a domestic abuser. So many songs of his allude to it. And the problem is that he usually glorifies himself as that badass dude who puts bitches into their places. Chris Brown's being a domestic abuser is kind of directly linked to Chris Brown the "artist".
I don't think I'd listen to Lennon or Marty Crandall if their being assholes corrupted their music. If they had paraded around like Chris Brown did and made this part of their lives part of their music, I'd have turned them out as well... It probably boils down to the fact that their music is able to transcend their assholery.
(and then, there's the fascinating case of bands like Odd Future... who kind of make assholery their art, but actually seem to be really nice guys in private.)
I knew that. Still, it just seems odd to me because the sentence doesn't make any sense. It's about as weird as saying "I could care less" when, in fact, you couldn't.
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