Saying that Disco was only popular with women and that 80s pop acts like MJ, Madonna and Duran Duran were only really popular with girls and hated by critics
their fans were mostly teenage girls who were frequently mocked for the hysterical outpouring of enthusiasm that clearly was an uncorking of repressed lust. Girls liked the Beatles because they wanted to fuck the Beatles (or so the theory went)
When the girls are screaming so loudly that nobody can hear the music, passing out, pissing themselves etc etc, I think it's safe to conclude they wanted to fuck the Beatles.
Hey look, Amanda "vogon" "will die alone and be eaten by her cats" Marcotte is low-grade trolling and mindlessly bashing men. It must be a day of the week ending in "y".
Years and years ago she used to have her own blog, and like, I generally disagreed with her writings, but they were often legitimately interesting to read.
Then she went to like, Raw Story or something, and then Salon, and started trolling for clickbait bux.
I remember her being pretty grating even in the pandagon days although my memories of it are fuzzy and the blog itself is long-since purged so I can't really back that up.
Pandagon was just another peaked-in-early 2000s feminist link aggregate blog, where half the posts was a link that was already circulating among feminist blog's with Marcotte's take on it, and the rest were just link roundups and commenter circlejerks.
It's like feministing. There was nothing interesting about it. It wasn't academic or anything, it was just narrative-weaving jerkoff material.
A lot of these clickbait artists got their start back in the early political blogging days of the aughts, and the money has steadily degraded the quality of the writing over time. Also the worst ones always seem to end up with steady careers, of course. I miss the internet from a decade ago, it was a lot more normal, strangely.
Really, because I remember her being fairly crazy them. I can't find the link, but I remember specifically reading an article by her, where she lamented men watching porn because it allowed them to be too picky to fuck her.
I wish these lefty "popular art critics" could write their articles without such a normative slant/stick up their butts. Like I think it's kind of interesting how the Beatles underwent this shift and the demographics of their fan base changed a lot, and then she connects this to other periods in music where this similar kind of shift happens. I can think of similar situations in other art forms where there's like a "mass appeal" version which then grows into an "elitist" version and the demographics shift, and often the demographic patterns are pretty different (like first person shooters that young guys like versus artsy walking simulators that have a different audience.)
Anyway it's kinda interesting but instead of laying out those examples and providing factual support (I'm not sure that disco thing is right, or the music right before nirvana was particularly popular with women as opposed to men...) she REEs against white dudes. Like, Dear Literally Who. I don't care what you personally think about this change in a normative sense, you're not that special. Just tell us some interesting facts and connections.
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1 stevemisor 2017-12-03
That article is not even factually correct
Saying that Disco was only popular with women and that 80s pop acts like MJ, Madonna and Duran Duran were only really popular with girls and hated by critics
whaa
1 Teh_Jews 2017-12-03
That's pretty egregious. Everyone loves MJ. Everyone.
1 Raving_Dave 2017-12-03
And MJ loves us.
1 Jukk 2017-12-03
Did a child write this?
1 Raving_Dave 2017-12-03
That's the joke.
1 SperglockHolmes 2017-12-03
Gussycide now!
1 ____________13 2017-12-03
When the girls are screaming so loudly that nobody can hear the music, passing out, pissing themselves etc etc, I think it's safe to conclude they wanted to fuck the Beatles.
1 cartb4horse 2017-12-03
Why is the author shaming women's sexual desires?
1 nmx179 2017-12-03
Hey look, Amanda "vogon" "will die alone and be eaten by her cats" Marcotte is low-grade trolling and mindlessly bashing men. It must be a day of the week ending in "y".
1 TinyJibble 2017-12-03
She gets paid to trigger neckbeards, and I'm triggered. Job well done in my book.
1 nmx179 2017-12-03
I invoke poe's law; when it comes to Marcotte the line between deliberate trolling and acute psychosis is blurry at best.
1 none_to_remain 2017-12-03
Years and years ago she used to have her own blog, and like, I generally disagreed with her writings, but they were often legitimately interesting to read.
Then she went to like, Raw Story or something, and then Salon, and started trolling for clickbait bux.
1 nmx179 2017-12-03
I remember her being pretty grating even in the pandagon days although my memories of it are fuzzy and the blog itself is long-since purged so I can't really back that up.
1 JesusIsQueen 2017-12-03
Pandagon was just another peaked-in-early 2000s feminist link aggregate blog, where half the posts was a link that was already circulating among feminist blog's with Marcotte's take on it, and the rest were just link roundups and commenter circlejerks.
It's like feministing. There was nothing interesting about it. It wasn't academic or anything, it was just narrative-weaving jerkoff material.
1 disgruntled_chode 2017-12-03
A lot of these clickbait artists got their start back in the early political blogging days of the aughts, and the money has steadily degraded the quality of the writing over time. Also the worst ones always seem to end up with steady careers, of course. I miss the internet from a decade ago, it was a lot more normal, strangely.
1 TherapyFortheRapy 2017-12-03
Really, because I remember her being fairly crazy them. I can't find the link, but I remember specifically reading an article by her, where she lamented men watching porn because it allowed them to be too picky to fuck her.
1 xjapxn 2017-12-03
https://i.imgur.com/XS5LK.gif
1 nmx179 2017-12-03
My nigga
1 Senator_Chickpea 2017-12-03
And not one mention of "Getting Better." I think she's losing her touch.
(Or hasn't actually listened to the album)
1 OnionBits 2017-12-03
This article confuses me. All the young/hipster/soyboy liberals are in constant circle jerk about how awesome the Beatles are, but now they are evil?
What a world
1 GoblinVapes 2017-12-03
Libs are feasting on each other. Just stay away and they'll be gone soon. Hopefully
1 sooperloopay 2017-12-03
Melon made a response to this
1 Teh_Jews 2017-12-03
I was trying to look for this and was upset that I couldn't just type "Melon Head" into the YouTube search to find him. Very upset.
1 opi 2017-12-03
lol, I always like that "Marcotte" reads pretty close to "markotna", and that means "moody" in Polish. She's a moody kid.
1 TherapyFortheRapy 2017-12-03
She's got to be pushing 50 at this point.
1 better_bot 2017-12-03
I mean, it wasn't even 5 years later and glam music got popular.
1 SuperShake66652 2017-12-03
This is so bad that even Pitchfork would throw it in the trash. What a bitter cunt.
1 Jackson_six 2017-12-03
I wish these lefty "popular art critics" could write their articles without such a normative slant/stick up their butts. Like I think it's kind of interesting how the Beatles underwent this shift and the demographics of their fan base changed a lot, and then she connects this to other periods in music where this similar kind of shift happens. I can think of similar situations in other art forms where there's like a "mass appeal" version which then grows into an "elitist" version and the demographics shift, and often the demographic patterns are pretty different (like first person shooters that young guys like versus artsy walking simulators that have a different audience.)
Anyway it's kinda interesting but instead of laying out those examples and providing factual support (I'm not sure that disco thing is right, or the music right before nirvana was particularly popular with women as opposed to men...) she REEs against white dudes. Like, Dear Literally Who. I don't care what you personally think about this change in a normative sense, you're not that special. Just tell us some interesting facts and connections.
1 WorldStarCroCop 2017-12-03
I knew I liked that album for some reason
1 SamWhite 2017-12-03
It's an article made to collect outrage clicks and you're feeding it.
1 GuillotinesNOW 2017-12-03
Your mom's feeding it.