How Condé Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork

Post by chriscjcj » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 6:09 AM UTC

jollofricepeas wrote: post #118

l33tbro wrote: post #98

Pitchfork died because it developed a problem with music itself. Prior to 2014, the site thrived because it took music at face value, and ranked new releases based upon what artists were contributing to the overall canon of progressive independent pop music. Everything changed in 2015. There was a drastic editorial shift, where the publication became repulsed by its own "unbearable whiteness" [1]. A kind of over-corr…

Wow. Yeah, that’s not what happened. I previously worked in music first at CMJ, UrbMag then Fader before working with a few indie and major labels on the digital side. Don’t try to rewrite history to make this a political or “wokeness” thing because of the view of ONE of the many contributors to Pitchfork. What happened to Pitchfork was pure economics. Pitchfork got old just like the article said. After indie, they a…

Post by tptacek » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 6:15 AM UTC

boomboomsubban wrote: post #120

tptacek wrote: post #105

Pitchfork was gone long before Conde. Back in 2011, they panned Childish Gambino's 4th release††, giving it a 16%†. Here's what Donald Glover had to say, 2 years before the Conde acquisition: If I worked for Pitchfork, I wouldn't give myself a 9.0 either. They're a brand, they sell tickets to a show they put on every year. They're not going to give a 1.6 to someone who can be at their show and sell tickets. They're n…

A year or two I was browsing the Pitchfork "best songs of the 10's" and was rather confused that "This is America" wasn't on it. A long running feud explains it. But eh, they're allowed to have "bad" opinions. Every critic I've remotely followed has strongly disagreed with me at times.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 6:43 AM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #119

l33tbro wrote: post #98

Pitchfork died because it developed a problem with music itself. Prior to 2014, the site thrived because it took music at face value, and ranked new releases based upon what artists were contributing to the overall canon of progressive independent pop music. Everything changed in 2015. There was a drastic editorial shift, where the publication became repulsed by its own "unbearable whiteness" [1]. A kind of over-corr…

These “ruined by wokeness” theories are awfully convenient to explain any kind of vague nostalgia. I’m guessing it goes over well on YouTube. “In my childhood, Hershey’s chocolate was a beautiful expression of the essential qualities of pure milk. But then the globalists changed the recipe to make it taste like unisex toilets and ESG investments. No wonder nobody eats Hershey’s anymore!”

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 6:45 AM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #119

l33tbro wrote: post #98

Pitchfork died because it developed a problem with music itself. Prior to 2014, the site thrived because it took music at face value, and ranked new releases based upon what artists were contributing to the overall canon of progressive independent pop music. Everything changed in 2015. There was a drastic editorial shift, where the publication became repulsed by its own "unbearable whiteness" [1]. A kind of over-corr…

These “ruined by wokeness” theories are awfully convenient to explain any kind of vague nostalgia. I’m guessing it goes over well on YouTube. “In my childhood, Hershey’s chocolate was a beautiful expression of the essential qualities of pure milk. But then the globalists changed the recipe to make it taste like unisex toilets and ESG investments. No wonder nobody eats Hershey’s anymore!”

Post by defrost » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 6:58 AM UTC

brailsafe wrote: post #114

l33tbro wrote: post #98

Pitchfork died because it developed a problem with music itself. Prior to 2014, the site thrived because it took music at face value, and ranked new releases based upon what artists were contributing to the overall canon of progressive independent pop music. Everything changed in 2015. There was a drastic editorial shift, where the publication became repulsed by its own "unbearable whiteness" [1]. A kind of over-corr…

Sheesh, what an exhausting, vacuous, and frankly racist screed. If there was a point, I don't think that this would be the article to make it. Thankfully though it did introduce me to a new indie artist I hadn't heard of.