pretentiousness. what a lame concept.
Above: an accurate depiction of battling pretentiousness.Alright you bunch of douches, you wanted a post?! You GOT a post! And just for further clarification, my girlfriends are Brigitte and The Blogulator. Believe me...we've gotten into some pretty sticky situations (pun INTENDED!), all three of us combined...for some reason, the Blogulator just doesn't like being the meat in a Mark and Brigitte sandwich...but that's another topic entirely that is better suited for my personal blog.
What I really want to preach to you people about is a little word called PRETENTIOUSNESS. What is it, you say? Is it when somebody likes a band that employs some "weird" methods of doing music? Is it when somebody likes something that other people don't like and isn't afraid to do so? Well, I didn't run the numbers on this one, but I did look up the definition of the word "pretentious" on our good friend, dictionary.com:
pre·ten·tious ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-tnshs)adj.
Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified.
Making or marked by an extravagant outward show; ostentatious.
So, clearly, for person A to claim something to be "pretentious," he must be accusing person B of giving an unjustified position of distinction or merit. So, is it unjustified of me to say that the new Mike Doughty record sucks? Let's run the numbers with our good friend, metacritic.com
So, there you have it, JUSTIFICATION that perhaps not everybody likes his new direction, even if it is done better than most.Haughty Melodic Metascore: 69 (out of 100), including reviews from publications like Tiny Mix Tapes saying, "It's just a little sad to hear Mike giving in to conventionality, even if he does do it better than most
What's the lesson to be learned here? You're most likely to be pretentious if you call somebody else pretentious, because pretentiousness is inherently an unjustified state of opinion.
That's right, y'all. Y'all been house'd by The Qualler.
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i would have to second qualler's emotion. it's boring and the lack of inventive guitar riffage makes my heart bleed, but there are officially 4 songs on the record that if i don't let my brain discern gibbard's overwrought semantics i can actually enjoy: marching bands of manhattan, brothers on a hotel bed, different names for the same thing, and summer skin. the rest i would poop on if i ever had such an opportunity.
yes! toe is awesome. doug from tortoise is in that band. their records are super hard to find here though. do you not like "different names for the same thing" because of the piano-drenchedness of it? cuz that build-up is pretty sweet and is probably my favorite part in all of plans (still not saying much). i think out of context, parts of the lyrics of the aforementioned songs are good, but overall, lines like "sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole" totally negate any goodness gibbard accidentally created with other lyrics. in any case, it's good to hear "emo" is finally catching on SOMEWHERE that i respect. does it mean the same thing as here? are japanese kids that listen to fall out boy saying "emo" or are kids that are listening to mid 90s chiacago rock music saying "emo"?
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