Pitchfork is dead

[Tetris v2.0]

Nothing about this is good if you care about journalism. Lot of journalist sites, newspapers, etc are being bought up and then dismantled for not being profitable enough to multi billion dollar corps. The end result is going to be a lot of corporate controlled "media" telling you what to buy or stream.

Pitchfork has already been this for the last ten years or so.

They post bullshyt articles about ambient queer jazz but then tell you Taylor Swift is the most important thing ever.

They were better when they were a CAC fueled indie rock site that did the odd MF DOOM review

Their current coverage of rap in particular is embarrassing. It's a blatant narrative and seeing now them roll up to fukking GQ is poetic lol

Journalism is in trouble I agree, but their brand has been cooked for over a decade

 

[swerve]

Pitchfork always been ass when it comes to hiphop.

Actually they have always been pretentious b*stards. They gave Lou Reeds ”Metal Machine Music” 8.7/10, and if you never heard that shyt it’s just a bunch of noise.

 

[prophecypro]

So are the reviews just gonna be under GQ’s site as a Pitchfork section. I presume?

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Nothing about this is good if you care about journalism. Lot of journalist sites, newspapers, etc are being bought up and then dismantled for not being profitable enough to multi billion dollar corps. The end result is going to be a lot of corporate controlled "media" telling you what to buy or stream.

Traditional journalism definitely thought it was untouchable. That's why Elliot Wilson mad cause he couldn't get a Nicki interview.

But a lot of these sites definitely were high off their gatekeeper status, and the demonstrated ability to get noticed without their approval definitely led more people to not caring about what they thought of music, especially hip hop....that's why NahRight,2DBz and Fakeshoredrive all out the paint now.


A lot of them writers/journalists did themselves in posting on twitter....Or just forever churning out clickbait lazy articles to keep traction during the current outrage cycle.

 

[Ziggiy]

Nothing about this is good if you care about journalism. Lot of journalist sites, newspapers, etc are being bought up and then dismantled for not being profitable enough to multi billion dollar corps. The end result is going to be a lot of corporate controlled "media" telling you what to buy or stream.

If you’ve read a Pitchfork review in the last 5 years and felt that it was fair and balanced Journalism then i’m sorry to say you are already stuck in the rabbit hole of corporate controlled media telling you what to buy or stream

 

[Knucklehead]

Nothing about this is good if you care about journalism. Lot of journalist sites, newspapers, etc are being bought up and then dismantled for not being profitable enough to multi billion dollar corps. The end result is going to be a lot of corporate controlled "media" telling you what to buy or stream.

Quoted for truth.
Tech companies who don’t produce any content hoovering up all the advertising money.
Celebrating the demise of a site that you can easily ignore just because they don’t give Nas the reviews you want them to is weirdo behavior

 

[Piff Perkins]

If you’ve read a Pitchfork review in the last 5 years and felt that it was fair and balanced Journalism then i’m sorry to say you are already stuck in the rabbit hole of corporate controlled media telling you what to buy or stream

I can't say that simply because they dislike albums I like. Their rap stances have been pretty consistent for over a decade. A lot of bad reviews for more traditional, established artists. A lot of good reviews for mixtapes and albums from younger artists more in line with whatever the direction of the genre was at the time. I remember a lot of good ones for Gucci Mane when he hid radars and meh reviews for The Roots lol. I'm not going to knock that, given the general focus on younger artists overall. That's not about corporations, it's about waves. Which is fine.

End of the day bad reviews gonna make me say "journalism dying is good if I don't like the journalism."

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Quoted for truth.
Tech companies who don’t produce any content hoovering up all the advertising money.
Celebrating the demise of a site that you can easily ignore just because they don’t give Nas the reviews you want them to is weirdo behavior

It's not just Nas lol...and he's clearly fine without them

Countless artists from smaller genres credit Pitchfork with ruining their careers because of scathing mean-spirited reviews they've done on them, just so they can have their snarky edgelord clout. They were given arbiter status for some reason...Well look at them now

 

[Tetris v2.0]

I'm going to miss reading about what Nick Cave ate for dinner yesterday, then seeing Latto get a better review than him

"What is John Mulaney listening to?" I dunno, his therapist? Why should I give a fukk lol

I also don't think there was ever a point where scrolled the front page and didn't see a picture of SZA within 5 seconds

 

[Robbie3000]

Good. Organizations like Pitchfork don’t respect Hip-Hop. That’s why they don’t have a problem with praising artists that are objectively terrible at the technical skill of rapping. It’s also why they don’t hesitate to disrespect Hip-Hop icons.

They would never do that to white genres.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Probably not the best thing for these current artists to lose their sunshine pumping ass sites. I ain’t mad though,

 

[THE 101]

There's a lot of sad trust fund white boys who live in Brooklyn who wrote articles with titles like "How Sexxy Red poppin her p*ssy puts the patriarchy on notice!"

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

There's a lot of sad trust fund white boys who live in Brooklyn who wrote articles with titles like "How Sexxy Red poppin her p*ssy puts the patriarchy on notice!"

That's more in line with Jezebel, and they got bushed also earlier last year.

 

[Brandsdale]

it was just 50 white hipsters working out of a factory that was retrofitted into an office without central A/C somewhere in Minneapolis

good riddance

 

[Brandsdale]

I'm too lazy to find all of the incredibly pivotal and culturally significant rap albums that got 5s and 6s from Liberal Arts grads who are making LinkedIn profiles tonight. Might do it later lol