How?

yep I’m deep fried now

Yeah and I'm of the belief it's going from youtube videos to short-form now

Yep, journalism in general is cooked. I was a moron for majoring in it during college.

Sadly short form videos have no depth. I don't know if you can call NFR podcast music journalists but all their videos are the most surface level rap takes imaginable

I think people like Tia Ho who I linked in OP have a surprising amount of depth but yea it is even harder to have depth when u have that kind of time limit / attention span requirements

I feel for you man a bunch of my friends went into journalism too it's rough out here

Thanks man, it's a wrap out there for people trying to crack into journalism full time. I ended up going into non-journalism fields soon after college though, but I definitely wasted tons of money on that education lol.

Not watching that but yep

Just checked it out and she seems pretty good. Maybe its my algorithm thats giving me all this music slop content

Yea you gotta intentionally train your algorithm away from the slop. It's crazy

#yes

You still keeping the faint pulse going man

Bit ironic in a thread about a 20min video

Been that way for a minute

ever since anyone could get on a mic, have good editing skills, have an okay ear for music, have an ability to glaze “in depth” (really they just telling you nothing amazing about the album you didn’t listen to), and companies started hiring said individuals instead of actual writers and journalists

yea that s*** dead. artists are sitting across from fans, not actual fan critics of their music

Do you feel like the problem is that pitchfork / rolling stone were hiring untalented people?

Still gotta interview you lmao I’m sorry man

It’s a shame music reaction videos as a genre gets kinda s***ted on in spaces like KTT when IMO they’re just as valuable, if more more, than typical music journalism (ala Pitchfork). It’s hard to find genuine channels out there that aren’t just click baiting, but when you do it’s always pretty good.

It’s also a shame that someone like Fantano has become the punchline of everyone’s jokes when he’s one of the people that are actually still putting in work with their videos and aren’t just going for clips to go viral.

Most film/lit critique is heavily based on the narrative, dissecting themes or meanings etc. Music criticism is mostly aesthetic criticism, which is more abstract and therefore more subjective imo.

Yea I like fantano. this thumbnail is 100% trojan horse clickbait I barely mention him in this video

and I also like reaction content too. I actually defend it in the video a bit

good question, have to think about that one lmao

Music critics dont usually know anything about making or writing music or music theory. There are far less character/plot/thematic elements to latch onto and a***yze. Its often just talking about lyrics and then a bunch of totally separate from the music waffling subjective to the writers taste/politics/views. A few great writers excepted of course (scaruffi, azzerad, reynolds off the top of my head)

hard to care about music theory when the people making the music are self trained and never been in a music theory class. this why music can’t be compared to film lol

Well the masses are illiterate