Idolator
A quick recap: For the past few months (we think), one of the music bloggers over at the Village Voice—a NYC-based publication that specializes in coining zingity-zang catchphrases—has been occasionally dropping the term "assholator" (it's a combination of "asshole" and "idolator," FYI). We generally just ignore it, as it's yet another whiffed attempt to further our meager little war-of-words, and because we ignore the VV music blog anyway. But today's little missive doesn't make any sense: Granted, we specialize in bad headlines—revel in them, in fact—but this one wouldn't make it even on our most desperate days. Here's why:
- There are three elements to the pun: The "4.20" bit, which is a riff on the old "4:20 = stoner time" gag; the "do you know where your kids are?" structure; and the fact that Panda Bear tickets go on sale today. You should never punnify more than two elements at a time, unless you've got something really yowza, joke-wise.
- The "4.20" gag assumes that most readers will automatically make the connection (if it even exists) between Panda Bear and stoner music—a dodgy proposition, given how few people know about PB.
- Even the best bad-pun headline must have a smidgen of logical flow. This one is a few degrees too obtuse—if we didn't know that Panda Bear tickets were going on sale, or that he was even playing, we'd be wondering: Are people reporting massive disappearances of Panda Bear tickets? Were we given Panda Bear tickets and never informed of it, and now facing the prospect of already having lost said tickets? Is Panda Bear missing?
- We don't write about Panda Bear. Or concert-ticket on-sale dates. There are about a million blogs that do that already, and do it without complaining about having to work at 10 a.m.
It's 4.20. Do You Know Where Your Panda Bear Tickets Are? [Villagevoice.com]
Comments
Since that's not an actual Idolator headline, she should've used the adjective form of 'Assholator' ('Assholatory'?).By the way, according to something I read on Brooklyn Vegan, tickets for the Umphreys McGee and Disco Biscuits show at McCarren Park Pool go on sale at 4:20PM today. In your (real) face, Panda Bear.
This is just the price you pay for running your own music poll. VV invented people compiling other people's thoughts about things!
Also, this is like when the NYT covers the coverage of celebrities: a pretense to do something you were going to do anyway. "When we write bad headlines, it's only to make fun of someone else's bad headlines! We could've thought of a good one. . .if we wanted. . . swear!!"
Attempted feuds put me to sleep faster than camo-camille tea.
That pic - where's the chubby kid-hand with the rose?
What? It's NOT from the triptych gatefold of "The Final Cut"?
Now I'm confused. Asshats? Polar Bear is just bad "Ummagumma"?
I Musto had too much coffee.
OOOH!
glove slap!
Was there a specific offense to start this feud?
if you don't care, then why are you posting about it?
Who the fuck is running the VV these days. Christ I would have made that bitch CRY had any one of my writers pull a stunt like this at my old University EiC gig.
I made reporters cry for less.
You just dont go WRITING shit like that, nor do you ever "feud" with a rival source, especially when your expected to upstanding news and entertainment source like the VV used to be. It just makes you look like a bunch of douchebags. Tony needs to really put his foot down on what his blogs editor is allowing to go through.
@RepentTokyo: So some of us don't have to bother reading at the VV to remember how completely clueless they've become.
Are we supposed to be surprised by the dimwitted sadstresses VV media hires these days? I thought it was a job requirement.
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