Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: I want to talk about how awful music reviewers are for a moment.

[quote name="Mysterio Lollerson"]We all know they are, but I <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/review-weezer-sound-confused-and-out-of-touch-on-black-album/">read this a few weeks ago. </a> On one hand we have: [quote]Most of the worst offenders were released as singles, so if you’ve been following along with this album rollout, you probably have a pretty good idea of how low Black Album can go. Lead single/opening track “Can’t Knock the Hustle” seems to try to answer the question “How much stuff can we <b>appropriate</b> at once?”[/quote] [quote]Now it just feels like “How do you do, fellow kids?” at best and eye-rolling <b>appropriation</b> at worst.[/quote] [quote]They brought in a handful of big-time pop songwriters, it’s got slick production (even with TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek producing), awkward hip hop <b>appropriation</b>, [/quote] He also uses the word cringeworthy twice. If you look at <a href="https://twitter.com/llllbfgllll">this clown's Twitter feed,</a> he doesn't use capital letters or punctuation. You have a person still committed to that being part of his brand, giving Weezer a hard time for not more things that are new, while simultaneously crying about appropriation. He's like a negative three Reddit comment come to life. I guess Rivers was supposed to, what? Play his guitars upside down? Record everything backwards? Would that be a new enough, non-APPROPRIATED sound? I don't remember where the discussion was asking about how vile political commentators are versus tech reporters and game reviewers but I imagine music reviewers are at the bottom. [/quote]