I haven’t seen the one-sheet but someone is obviously passing on some bad information.

And I’m not even a music snob/elitist with my tastes and opinions.
[Hot Hot Heat's Elevator was one of my favorite albums of whatever year
it came out]. What I am trying to say is I’m gonna wait this one out
and give em a chance. Cause I can only listen to I’m Not Gonna Teach
Your Boyfriend…so many times.

I don’t think Black Kids are trying to prove anything or take over the world, nor are they making an effort to be the next “Vampire Weekend”. What people seem to forget is that it is music bloggers and the like that create hype, not the artists themselves.

So what we have is an artist working hard to create good art. That’s it. And what do they get for it? They get chewed up and spit out by elitist music writers who oddly give more love to so-called “talent” like Jason Castro on American Idol.

Its hard enough as it is to succeed as an artist today. What do you propose – that aspiring artists like Black Kids just stop trying and stay at home? What kind of world would that be? It seems that you’d like to squash their music career before they even put out an album. And let’s be honest, if you were in their shoes you would not have done a thing differently. If Columbia Records was knocking at your door, would you turn them down? What’s the point?

I’m sorry, I just don’t get the backlash. Black Kids hating is so 2007! Let’s move on, people.

“They should take up competitive knitting because all they have is one hook and one loop.”

That is all.

“They’re called Black Kids! It’s EDGY! It’s HIP! SHAKING THINGS UP!”

Seriously, I think that is the thinking on this.

And @ Ned Raggett: BB is doing all sorts of odd production work of late. There’s a backlash against him in NME, even:

[www.nme.com]

All because the Duffy record solds truckloads, I would guess.

I await Richard Oakes’s production career!

Jesus, whittling down the thousands of Buzz Bissinger’s would be the hard part.

Pitchfork is losing it with me. I still check ‘em out everyday though, if only to see what their lowest rated album of the day is, because that’s usually what I end up liking(like KOL’s “Because of the Times”, which they gave a 2 or 3 something and ended up being one of my faves from 07).

Reggie Youngblood is 27?!?! What the hell? He reminds me of Sonny Landham, aka “Billy” from Predator.

I hope if anything comes out of this, it’s that Pitchfork wont give their Best New Music to an amateurish band’s four song demo.

“I don’t think Black Kids are trying to prove anything or take over
the world, nor are they making an effort to be the next “Vampire
Weekend”. What people seem to forget is that it is music bloggers and
the like that create hype, not the artists themselves.”

Say it again, say, say it, say it again…

Hooboy.

I await Richard Oakes’s production career!

Simon Gilbert went off to drum for a band in Thailand — I always liked that as a career move.