Link: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13649-silhouettes/
Ryan Schreiber is an indie blog innovator behind Pitchfork Media. He started his blogspot, it blew up and replaced dying magazines, and now he just pays people who are desperate 2 be associated with the Pitchfork brand 'content farm prices', attempting to produce branded alt content. Schreiber recently decided to descend from his stacks of buzz bucks in order to 'get his hands dirty', doing the work of the content farmer. He decided to give the popular EDM DJ act "AVICII" Best New Music.
Is this a 'turning point' in Pitchfork history, abandoning the traditional 'indie sound'?
I didn't actually read the review, but it probably just tried to explain why p4k was blogging abt EDM because ppl mainly read P4k to hear that people died or to spooge over the honky band of the month in a more tasteful way than NPR's advertorial voice.
As genre names go, EDM is about as vague as "indie." While it's useful shorthand for the post-millennial rave movement's superstar DJs and producers, it doesn't give much insight into the stylistic diversity of the music. Its artists may share an affinity for dramatic, wind-up builds and earthquaking drops, but there's still a world of difference between Skrillex's glitched-out mayhem, Diplo's baile-funk bangers, and David Guetta's big-tent trance.
Then there's Swedish producer Avicii, who essentially makes straight-up house music with an ear for the kind of universal, candy-coated pop melodies that his homeland seems to produce with astonishing ease. More than six months after its official release, his 2011 electro house anthem "Levels" is still gaining momentum as one of EDM's defining singles.
U vibe 2 LeVeLs, too, bro?
Le7eLz.
Listen 2 the track. Does it sound 'relevant', 'best', and 'new', or just the usual chords that make ppl on molly 'go crazie'.
This is a bold move by P4k, and it certainly adds to the rumors that there WILL be a dance tent at next year's Pitchfork Music Festival in order to capitalize on EDM markets. The Online Mag recently 'crossed EDM lines' in order to interview Skrillex.
Is EDM more relevant than indie?
Has the EDM bubble already burst?
R u more into this song than Majestic-Coma-Wave Beach House?
Should music not have labels/genres?
Don't u wish we could all vibe?
Is EDM the future of the indie blogosphere?
Does all white man's honky indie sound the same anyways?
Remember that time when Avicii was interviewed by some1 who had no effing clue who he was?
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Alternative Celebrity, DJAVICII is the bro who wrote the club hit LEVELS and is a member of the EDM community. LEEVEELLLSSS
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Whaddup guys? Lucas here. Vercetti in the house.
Things are going great on this end. I think I'm really raising my media profile. I feel as if I am officially more famous than Earl Sweatshirt, the #2 most famous member of Odd Future. Screw that guy. He was such a dick to me, and I was the only one who was nice to him when our manager locked him in a basement for the first year of Odd Future and claimed he was in Samoa. It wasn't right, but he would always try to bite my fingers off when I slid his prison food thru the hole in the door of his isolation chamber.
But enough about that. I've got a good thing going here. Got a good girl, a good gig at the retail shop. Things haven't been this good since I got free sammies at my first job (Quizno's).
I'm counting my blessings. It's just the Vercetti way. Fame hasn't changed me.
Whoa! Thanks for reppin Vercettti, Tyler! Do u mind going easy on me this week, man? I'm tired of being hazed. I feel like I've proved myself as a valuable member of Odd Future.
Well, I gotta order some office supplies for the retail store, then steam press some of the new shirts, then take a 3 hour shift at the register. I shouldn't have to be doing this, but I hired a guy I used to skate with who was addicted to meth, and I think he's fallen off the wagon again. I'm not sure if I should narc him out to his parole officer, or just see what happens. Unfortunately, he has also been stealing inventory and selling it on eBay.
What can I say? Sometimes I'm too nice of a guy. Lucas Was Here.
Vercetti Out!
Photo by theCobrasnake
Zooey Deschanel is widely known for being in Fox's "The New Girl", being an indie actress, and performing in the band She & Him with some other guy who no1 even cares about. Recently, Zooey Deschanel obtained a social anxiety disorder that prevented her from leaving the house. All she really cared about was staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing. Eventually, many girls in our country acquired the same anxiety disorder, resulting in staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing. It has become a sad society where people only care about staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing. Something had to be done to save Zooey from staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing.
It's nice to see Zooey out and about, getting her nails done at a VIP event where they hire tiny AZNs to fix ur janky nails. It must have been scary for her to do something other than staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing. But at the same time, I'm sure she missed staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing. Who knows if she will stop staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing, but for one night, she wasn't staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing.
I am not sure if getting ur nails done is as fun as staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing, but when ur entire existence is about staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing, then you are probably scared to do ANYTHING other than staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing.
We would like to send Zooey all of the strength in the world as she fights to do anything other than staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing. There is a world out there where you don't just stay in, wear comfy jammies, order tomato soup, and dance by yourself.
Please use the comments section to send Zooey some strength and positive wishes.
R u worried abt Zooey?
Do u only care abt staying in, wearing comfy jammies, ordering tomato soup, and dancing?
R u a tomato soup Zozo hermit?
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