I wonder what other r&b records from 2011 those people who are freaking out over the Weeknd tape have enjoyed.

maura:

Sorry if this sounds snobby! It’s just, ugh, this is all reminding me of how Eminem gets airplay on rock stations. Cultural signifiers and aesthetic preferences becoming confused and elevating stuff for possibly weird reasons.

One of my favourite ever ILX moments (and favourite rockcrit moments!) was when Nate P listed - w/o much editorial context and no real-finger pointing* - all the people who’d put Speakerboxx/The Love Below as their Pazz & Jop No.1 and listed no other hip-hop records. ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE as dudes were VERY defensive, but data is data :)

*Nate expressed regret later but I think if anyone else but him had done it they’d have been more accusatory and the butthurtness of the critics would have been more righteous though no less butthurt.

(Reblogged from alexmacpherson)

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  1. snaredrumgo reblogged this from maura and added:
    Exactly. I had to deal with a lot...mess when I worked at my college’s radio station at...
  2. natepatrin reblogged this from tomewing and added:
    In retrospect I think the flashpoint problem was that I used the loaded word “tokenism”. Whoops! And I think the obvious...
  3. purplerainpurplerain reblogged this from duhdoydorothy and added:
    the bolded is mine. really interesting to think about… this is pretty unrelated but i was really surprised when i found...
  4. artyucko said: Posts like this will cause its targets to feel depressed and discouraged from creating art and also take attention away from what you seem to imply that you would rather people be talking about.
  5. duhdoydorothy reblogged this from tomewing
  6. phantroll reblogged this from maura and added:
    Tell us what you would suggest instead. It would be really helpful to have more lists like
  7. jrichmanesq reblogged this from maura and added:
    hypothesis: the number of other R&B albums people freaking out over the new Weeknd tape have listened to
  8. jrichmanesq said: hypothesis: the number of other R&B albums people freaking out over the new Weeknd tape have listened to is exactly equal to the number of other hardcore albums people who put Fucked Up’s “David Comes To Life” in their Top 10 have listened to.
  9. nesbittslimesoda said: It probably involved R. Kelly.
  10. perpetua said: Isn’t the answer to this more or less “Drake,” though I guess he is technically a rapper?
  11. flyoverstates said: as a fan of the Weeknd, what other R&B records from 2011 would you recommend? this is not intended as a confrontation or a challenge, but as a genuine inquiry from somebody that is not very well-versed in the genre.
  12. tomewing reblogged this from alexmacpherson and added:
    One of my favourite ever ILX moments (and favourite rockcrit moments!) was when Nate P listed - w/o much editorial...
  13. microphoneheartbeats reblogged this from alexmacpherson and added:
    Listening to it out of a sense of obligation. There were parts of House of Balloons I liked. Thursday bored me...
  14. alexmacpherson reblogged this from maura
  15. andrewmcclain reblogged this from rawkblog and added:
    Glad to see: a) some healthy hesitance/skepticism on The Weeknd that isn’t blind dismissal b) that I have definitely...
  16. rawkblog reblogged this from maura and added:
    Three hours straight...“Countdown” should be mandatory before adding dude to iTunes
  17. hellandheartaches said: well jasmine sullivan didn’t put out anything this year and the elle varner album isn’t till 2012 so it’s been an emptyish R&B year for me…
  18. kikoartoiscunningham reblogged this from maura