: Ys? More like ... CrappY!
For some reason there seems to be quite a lot of wank around harp playing indie artist Joanna Newsom. I thought this one warranted posting.
So Joanna Newsom released a new album this year entitled Ys. It is extremely ambitious and one would not be out of line to call it difficult. However despite that it seemed to be getting an endless stream of positive reviews.
Except from Rolling Stone.
They summed up the album with;
"Newsom is a classically trained harpist and singer who made a very good 2004 record, but this EP is hard to stomach: Five tracks, four of them more than nine minutes and one ("Only Skin") sixteen-plus, with meandering strings-and-things accompaniment and indulgent vocal quirks that make Bjork sound like Kelly Clarkson."
Nothing really wrong with that. Not everyone needs to like everything. However Rolling Stone just couldn't stand that they weren't allowed to sit at the cool kids table with everyone who likes that stupid Joanna Newsom and her crummy harp album.
Thus they write a new article just to say, HEY! JOANNA (AND EVERYONE WHO LIKES HER) SUX!* ( Copy and pasted for those who don't want to click )
Comments on the whole seem to be attacking Rolling Stone for such a ridiculous article, but there some "OMG HOW DARE YOU JUDGE THE GREATNESS OF JOANNA!" sentiment mixed in there, along with "right on, she does suck!"
*This is the part that really gets me. I can't be sure, but if the commenters on RS are to be believed, the article when first published was actually called "Joanna Sux" and RS changed the title to something less uh, idiotic. If that's not wanky, I don't know what is. I mean, I wasn't aware internet flame war starters were allowed to write for huge music magazines but you learn something new all the time!
For some reason there seems to be quite a lot of wank around harp playing indie artist Joanna Newsom. I thought this one warranted posting.
So Joanna Newsom released a new album this year entitled Ys. It is extremely ambitious and one would not be out of line to call it difficult. However despite that it seemed to be getting an endless stream of positive reviews.
Except from Rolling Stone.
They summed up the album with;
"Newsom is a classically trained harpist and singer who made a very good 2004 record, but this EP is hard to stomach: Five tracks, four of them more than nine minutes and one ("Only Skin") sixteen-plus, with meandering strings-and-things accompaniment and indulgent vocal quirks that make Bjork sound like Kelly Clarkson."
Nothing really wrong with that. Not everyone needs to like everything. However Rolling Stone just couldn't stand that they weren't allowed to sit at the cool kids table with everyone who likes that stupid Joanna Newsom and her crummy harp album.
Thus they write a new article just to say, HEY! JOANNA (AND EVERYONE WHO LIKES HER) SUX!* ( Copy and pasted for those who don't want to click )
Comments on the whole seem to be attacking Rolling Stone for such a ridiculous article, but there some "OMG HOW DARE YOU JUDGE THE GREATNESS OF JOANNA!" sentiment mixed in there, along with "right on, she does suck!"
*This is the part that really gets me. I can't be sure, but if the commenters on RS are to be believed, the article when first published was actually called "Joanna Sux" and RS changed the title to something less uh, idiotic. If that's not wanky, I don't know what is. I mean, I wasn't aware internet flame war starters were allowed to write for huge music magazines but you learn something new all the time!
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