This week we praised bro-step, K-Pop, and Doritos JACKED, leading some of you to wonder if the staff experienced major head trauma at SXSW. (We did!) Then Lana Del Rey played a TV show and everything was back to normal. After the jump, check out the highest and lowest rated comments of the past seven days as chosen by your clicks!
THIS WEEK’S 10 HIGHEST RATED COMMENTS
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dbr | Mar 19th | Score:42 |
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Grilled cheese sandwiches. |
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| Posted in: In Defense Of Skrillex | |||
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sopa middleton | Mar 22nd | Score:45 |
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Beach Howse |
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| Posted in: Premature Evaluation: Beach House Bloom | |||
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kerda | Mar 19th | Score:45 |
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I’ll be honest in saying that I know very little about dubstep, and have no business judging the artistic merits of Skrillex vs. any other laptop warrior fueling this sort of sweaty, drug-sauna bacchanalia, but two points worth making: 1) Why is it that people are always “shocked” when someone takes a nuanced genre of music, reduces it to its most obvious, visceral components, and proceeds to make millions selling it to Corona-addled white dudes? Isn’t that typically just refereed to as “pop music”? It’s weird to me that this eternally replicating phenomenon always launches a million think pieces and conflicted hand-wringing from the music intelligentsia, as though it’s not the same basic formula being repeated over and over and over again. Music for most people is JUST entertainment. People just want something fun and danceable to soundtrack their parties, or their drive home. I know that’s obvious, and it sounds patronizing in a way to point it out, but it being obvious doesn’t seem to stop the people from always being outraged by it. 2) With that in mind, there’s really no purpose for these “establishment defense of a cultural pariah” articles. I swear that anti-snobbery is the new snobbery, where having a deep, unironic love of Britney Spears is likely to generate less eye rolls than saying you enjoy Belle & Sebastian. Art that’s dumb, obvious and immediate is never going to want for an audience, and to reprimand people who seek something more for daring to have standards or expectations is essentially speaking power to truth. Skrillex, or Rhianna, or Coldplay or whoever don’t need bandwidth wasted in defense of them, because the millions of people who buy their records and/or go to their concerts are already damn effective at giving these artists validation. |
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Nick Degel | Mar 19th | Score:45 |
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Party on, Wayne |
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plb102 | Mar 21st | Score:48 |
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Joe Howse: The greatest man alive |
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Michael Robenalt | Mar 19th | Score:49 |
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This article is good…but where’s the drop? |
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nightsinatx | Mar 19th | Score:53 |
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Cool story, bro. |
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Ben Cornell | Mar 21st | Score:55 |
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one time i had pizza with joe howse. he pretended to be full so i could have the last slice. |
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| Posted in: Premature Evaluation: Beach House Bloom | |||
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djfreshié | Mar 19th | Score:66 |
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djfreshié | Mar 19th | Score:67 |
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THIS WEEK’S 5 LOWEST RATED COMMENTS
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Griff Fuller Jr. | Mar 19th | Score:-16 |
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The “indie press” will always try to find a way to legitimize hipster garbage bullshit. |
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Notty Culture | Mar 20th | Score:-17 |
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nice article – some great stuff on his new website http://skrillexworld.com |
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| Posted in: In Defense Of Skrillex | |||
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rubberjohnny0829 | Mar 19th | Score:-19 |
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Fuck Skrillex. Go listen to Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count. My favorite album of the first half of the 2000s. |
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Edward John Castillon | Mar 19th | Score:-20 |
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just took stereogum.com off my bookmarks. so sad. |
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Robert Miller | Mar 22nd | Score:-24 |
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Doesn’t matter. Album sucks. |
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| Posted in: Premature Evaluation: Beach House Bloom | |||
THIS WEEK’S EDITOR’S CHOICE (SCOTT)
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rubberjohnny0829 | Mar 21st | Score:3 | |
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This is Tyler’s biggest influence. Anyone who says otherwise, LOOK IT UP!!!! I like beach house because Tyler likes them. ODD FUTURE > BEACH HOUSE but BEACH HOUSE > MOST OTHER SHIT (cause my boy tyler loves em) |
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| Posted in: Premature Evaluation: Beach House Bloom | |||
THIS WEEK’S EDITOR’S CHOICE (AMRIT)
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Wesley Morgan Paraham | Mar 20th | Score:20 | |
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The other day I had an idea how to improve this feature. The comment(s) that generate the most replies should be recognized. To elicit a reaction so strong that one feels compelled to actually type out a response and post it is so much more significant than simply getting a +1 which only requires one click. Personally I would take a reply over a +1 or even a +10 or whatever all day.
Unrelated…
Even though he didn’t get the most positive reaction, I thought Donnytilla was absolutely killing it in the Beach House premy eval post. I was appalled that his Yo Momma reference actually had a negative rating at one point and I can’t even explain why, but when he said “no one is tougher” in reference to me in a reply it made me laugh harder than anything I’ve ever read on this site.
That is all, hope everyone has a great weekend (especially Joe Howse)
Dude, I agree, the Yo Momma comment was the most awesome thing I’ve seen on here in a long time and I was pissed that it didn’t get the mad thumbs it deserved. I wanna buy Donny and Joe Howse each a smoothie for their respective efforts/contributions.
DONNY, YOU ARE A GOD AMONG MEN
my two #1 kittens
you lil hearts!!!!@!@!!1!1
thanks for noticing, friends. I was as disappointed as you guys by the yo mamma. but, you know, people see wilma vaaladarama and they get angry. it makes sense.
sweet dreams…
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Oh wow, now that you mention it Donnytilla IS less accomplished than Sarah Silverman. This whole time I had been under the impression that Donnytilla had a much better comedy career than S.S. I was way off, thanks for setting me straight.
Sorry Donny, I have to take back everything positive I’ve ever said about you.
It’s true: I am worthless. I apologize if I fooled anyone into thinking I am not a repulsive (haha) piece of unentertaining garbage. I’ve never attempted to please anyone but myself and to make the kind of comments that I wanted to hear, but I can definitely understand someone enjoying rubjon more than ol’ Tilla.
However commycow, you used the word “banal” in two of your four or whatever posts this week, which sort of reeks of banality.
JUST SAYIN.
Peace,
Big Don
Well you can’t spell Scatology and Banality without Scat and Anal.
Anality? Nobody invited Scatman to the Anality party? Scatman is not impressed.
At least we know how seriously to take this feature.
I WAS HOPING E HONDA WOULD BEAT OUT BASS DROP. It was a race to the very finish!
I didn’t see that until now. Great stuff…
Question though, did Chun Lee get any consideration over E Honda? If you wanted to go Mortal Kombat instead, a Liu Kang Bicycle kick may have worked as well.
Not that I’m complaining, just wanted to get some insight into your process.
good point – also, who is better looking: ryu or ken?
i can tell you where my money is
Blondes have more fun
thepipesarebroken!
I like to think I at least had something to do with the top comments this week. thanks again for those.
Great assist
Man, I hadn’t seen the Joe Howse thing until just now, and I just want to say kudos to everyone involved.
yes, everyone worked hard this week (TWSS). I for one accomplished nothing.
neither did i!
Hey, you guys remember when RubberJohnny made fun of himself on the Skrillex page and then it got upvoted so many times he almost made the top 10? Scary stuff.
I don’t know if I want to live in a world where RubJon isn’t the one trolling…
we need him more than he needs us. he doesn’t need anything, except WOOOOOOOLLLLLLLFFFFF GAAAAAAANNNNNGGGG GMOTHAFUCKAAAAASSSSS
I pretty sure RubberJohnny is just a House Elf that belongs to Tyler, and he is just following orders.
I think it’s funny that the Skrillex bee gif has still not been posted as asked.
but what the hell, here
is there any way you could change that bee into the 311 logo? would probably take us where we need to go.
If this, 311, Rubberjohnny, and Joe Howse ever find a way to intersect in one perfect comment there will be peace on Earth
One time, Joe Howse quickly came to Rubberjohnny’s defense when he avidly vouched for the validity of 311 and their music.
Yes! there it is. this one is still my favourite. Thank you, Michael, for following through.
So two weeks ago, Michael.
I hate not being the most popular Michael around here nowadays.
I downvoted this, because this reminds me of when girls try to say “I wish I wasn’t so fat” just to try and get sympathy. You’re not fat Micahel_, stop pretending.
I upvoted this, because you’re a winner, Michael_.
No sympathy needed, but a group hug is welcomed.
Well, I made it guys. No more commenting for me, I’m going out on top.
After last week’s SXSW lull, Stereogum came back firing on all cylinders. So many hot topics to debate, so much controversy on the rise. Battle lines were drawn. New heroes emerged while long-time veterans fell from their pedestals and were thrown away into the trenches to die. This is a new era on the Stereogum comment section. A dark, dark vicious new era…
Is this a Hunger Games reference?
Just odd timing to make such a statement, I suppose. I’ve been around here for several months now, and as is comment section culture, waves of characters are cycled in and out after this amount of time. All I did was get yelled at this week. I got the message, guys, loud and clear. Out with the old voices, in with the new.
Is that comment section culture? I didn’t know about this. If your time here is up will you go to comment on a different site? Were you a regular on another site before this one? This whole concept is weirding me out.
I’ve visited this site for probably 3+ years but I didn’t really get into commenting until the end of the year lists starting coming out last year. I’ve been posting comments on and off since then. There are several people who seem to be way more consistent than I am but I’m sure some ppl do recognize my name/avatar. Is my time almost up too? I thought this was forever. How long have some of the other regs been around? I don’t want to become an old voice, I don’t want to become a comment section statistic.
Probably not. Lately, back and forthing with strangers on here has been one of the few things that’s kept me in touch with people around my own age and who have similar interests, though, and I guess I’ve kind of grown to enjoy the company. Not to be a sap, but Stereogum has kept me sane in suburbia. You know that gut feeling you get when it appears your friends have moved away and made new friends to replace you alongside a new Asian girlfriend as the phone calls become less frequent and the invites to visit do as well? That’s what I’ve felt like these past few weeks.
I can’t tell if you or your friends have the new Asian girlfriend, but either way that does sound depressing. I can relate to at least parts of that.
Stay up homie
Can I give you both like 100 hugs?
Damn you, Hunger Games, damn you.
Indeed…
does skrillix have tits?