Joey Joe-Joe Jr. Shabadoo
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when I hear juke/footwork in the club, I want to see some people footworking/jukin. Still yet to see it.
why don't you do it then
when I hear juke/footwork in the club, I want to see some people footworking/jukin. Still yet to see it.
A major issue I have with so much modern music journalism is the lack of a sense that anyone is getting outside and seeing anything or speaking to anyone.
why don't you do it then
A major issue I have with so much modern music journalism is the lack of a sense that anyone is getting outside and seeing anything or speaking to anyone.
i agree but is this a problem with music journalism or just the way modern digital living is going?
Yep happens most of the time still. Having London based journalists asking me about violence at Grime nights in 2012 just makes me bang my head on the table
Said Mr. Cox: "I'm 50 years old now. I grew up with vinyl, a needle on a record. Turntablism. I'd play a blend of disco with funk, soul and house with a 909 drum machine," he added, referring to a primitive device. "Am I supposed to dumb down to the idea that all I'm doing is pressing a button?"
What Paul Morley did to The Cure.
This sort of thing, combined with Iconoclastic Svengali maneuvers and marriage to Claudia Brücken at the height of her power and beauty, make Morley look cool, retrospectively. I mean all the new books and the Guardian articles are empty and energyless and (essentially) silly, and even Tony Colston-Hayter managed to make him look like a flabby and self-content arse on TV once upon a time (but that was 1989). Nevertheless.
shit cunts.
Unsurprisingly, Cage gladly fills the silences whenever Dizzee is unmoved by my enquiries. Enquiries like: what would he change about his life as a UK megastar? “Interviews, because you’re all shit cunts and I’m tired of answering these bullshit questions.”
also, i'm probably nitpicking here but...personally liking something is a separate issue from critiquing whether something is good or bad, isn't it? i can be knowledgable about a topic and have the wherewithal to determine if an album (or film, or book, etc.) is successful in achieving what it sets out to do, but that doesn't necessarily mean i like it myself.
I don't think you can unpick the two really - or at least it's never that simple: if you try to separate 'objective quality' and 'my subjective taste' then you just end up with a whole mess of other considerations on which those things are basically contingent. So you can do it, obviously, and sometimes it turns out great, but I don't think you could say it simplifies things particularly. Personally I find writers much more convincing when they really embrace their own subjectivity rather than acting as if they can see past it/disregard it.
I don't mean being needlessly partisan, just being as honest as possible I guess