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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Jan 21, 2024 ^^
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RYD date created : 2024-05-12T23:05:32.183853Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Thanks for sticking up for āthe written wordā here. You could have used P4Kās demise to prop yourself up as the next form of music press, but keeping it humble and keeping our broader music ecosystem in mind serves to hopefully bridge this video-watching audience into consuming great writing by the pros. Iām dismayed by the current flattening of our culture but at the same time hope this mass-extinction event (amoeba, bandcamp, etc etc etc) gives way to a rebirth in the next gen of writers and reporters giving incisive voices to a great shared conversation.
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As a baby boomer that grew up with every publication under the sun doing music reviews, it really sad that so few writers remain. Really good albums can drop these days with no real reviews. Itās not a question of whether outlet X or Y did it well, itās that there are so few voices. With the recent changes in YouTube I fear that we will lose even more creators. Short form media has its place but sometimes we need a more thorough treatment.
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I've been a regular P4k reader for 20 years, and while I think they had some ups and downs over the years, I was impressed with how the site was still going and still publishing well-written and thoughtful reviews all the time. Even their podcast was a fun thing to listen to. Great that I get to live through the death of every kind of journalism.
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Whatever can be said about Pitchfork's most recent and most (in-)famous output, it still provided a home for some really good music WRITING - just last night they published a classic review by Simon Reynolds(!), and columns by writers like Mark Richardson, Mike Powell and reviews by Amanda Petrusich and (most recently) Jesse Dorris all provided thoughts and reflections about music and music culture that will stick with me forever. I'm sure that stuff will find a home elsewhere (maybe music criticism will just be a bunch of Substacks from now on), but still...it feels bad.
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Hate to say this, but Pitchfork gradually giving into poptimism and focusing more on mainstream music vs indie/alternative is likely a big reason for its downfall. Just seeing its latest 90ās list where they changed the best song of the 90ās from Pavement to Mariah Carey, it shows how much theyāve strayed from the base that built them. And Iām not a pop music hater by any means, I just liked that Pitchfork was more focused on less well known artists, and they helped me find a lot of great indie artists back in the day.
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Iāve read Pitchfork religiously the last 10 years (yea I was late to the game). But loved how much music I was introduced to I donāt think I ever wouldāve found anywhere else. Sure itās gotten worse, especially the last 2-3 years, but they still reviewed pretty obscure and interesting music that I wouldnāt have found elsewhere.
Really sad to hear itās basically done.
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@explodeaphant
3 months ago
"I heard of a good indie album on GQ, I'll head over to Epic Games to stream it", what a time to be alive.
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