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For those of you who just want to cut to the chase, the guys at Popsense gave today’s content from the titan of indie reviewing a 6.7. I give the review of their review a 5.6; it gave me a few chuckles, but scored too many easy points for it to enter the “classic takedowns of Internet not-very-sacred cows” pantheon. (I deducted at least .5 for “Also, a using-lots-of-dashes-to-describe-something technique is a lazy way to describe something”–if you’re going to talk about editorial laziness, make sure you don’t use the same noun twice in the sentence covering that topic!) [Popsense]
Here Is A Link To That “Reviewing Pitchfork In The Style Of A Bunch Of Pitchfork Reviews” Thing, Which I’ve Received 10 E-Mails About This Morning
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haha, appreciate the link to it, thank you!
Gotta specify though, we used the same noun twice because that’s the joke, not out of our own laziness. But again, thanks for reviewing our review of a review!
Actually, I thought the “using-lots-of-dashes” sentence was the funniest part of the whole thing.
yea, pitchfork’s deer tick review was total BS. that is such a great album, but they tore it apart because it wasn’t “indie enough”. gimme a break…. pitchfork is a bunch of pretentious and spiteful pricks.
I think The Onion nailed it a lot better:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/pitchfork_gives_music_6_8
I do think the onion did a great job with that piece, but it was a totally different task. They did an hilarious job of summing up the idea of pitchfork, but we wanted to go piece by piece, treating their site like it was an album.