Album Rating: 4.5

I know this is dumb and again I'm not looking for a pile-on (never am, yktv) but it definitely uh kinda implicitly crossed "Crying in H Mart" off my list. one of those one-off sentiments where you're like, "This person just CAN'T be a certain level of smart [the level I'd want to spend multiple hundreds of pages with], to have thought this was an insight or worth expressing."



I rarely conclude this.

is insight always contingent on smartness
[abandons thread]

Album Rating: 4.5

square rectangle thing probably. not every insight comes from a smart person, but if someone's smart, they're not saying dumb shit like that generally as a rule. this so sounds like not my type of thinking but I just don't see it. I don't see someone who I want to spend time with saying that even if they're wasted. And it's not even that she "doesn't like the Beatles"--clearly does. In which case it's like why? The Black MIDI guy's response was perfect, and then her response to him rude and dumb, and then his response to that perfect.

Album Rating: 5.0

i don't really get her take anyway? Like this is very emotional album. I mean Eleanor Rigby

Japanese Breakfast more like Big Mad

idk, i think up until the black midi response it was p easily viable to take her take as a tongue-in-cheek contrarianism (fuck *those* contrarians! i'll show you how its done) and that it's potential for dumbness was far from absolute
and the black midi response is not_good and does sour the whole thing and deny that angle
but
you hadn't seen that when you first weighed in amirite
hella random hill to die on though - if you're gonna post bait beatles takes, at least vamp it up and say that anyone who likes Abbey Road even a little bit should go to relationship counselling immediately or disappear from society forever and then refuse to engage in any further discourse or elaboration

enters Beatles thread
immediately sees johnny talking about black midi
why are you like this

get on twitter old man

The whole idea of piss takes/bait is so strange to me anyway. There are occasionally exceptions but i just don’t find the humor in it. So often i think people hide behind that because they don’t understand why they said something rude. It’s like hey maybe you just had a moment and that’s okay too. I don’t really see how JB posting that on Twitter is supposed to be ironic or something. Maybe they just hate when people enjoy things?

Album Rating: 5.0

I can't find the black midi response on Twitter so I guess I can't weigh in super hard there but she's been kind of annoying ever since writing her book. Like I'm not offended that she thinks I'm contrarian for this being my favorite, I'm offended for this album. Lol.



Edit: Never mind, I see now The Greep is black midi.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah idc about her tweet just don't really see a connection with this album and unfeeling snobbery



what is the unfeeling snobbery beatle album though? White album perhaps?

Album Rating: 5.0

Twitter is bad, no one should get on Twitter

There is definitely enough stuffy hagiographic criticism by boring pseuds about the the Beatles and this album more than most to warrant shots being taken in that direction, but because it's the Beatles, rolling that across their entire fanbase is v dumb
And @norma you've definitely posted enough bait in your time that imma have to raise an eyebrow at that comment, but I agree that an open platform to an audience that broad is not a vibe it fares well in

Album Rating: 5.0

Definitely think The White Album fits as the "snobbery" album but it's still ridiculously good so I can't blame anyone for picking it as their favorite. I do feel like there's a good bit of weird bloat in there though so I don't listen to it as often as the other albums.

might riff off this and make a full list of what your fav Beatles album absolutely unequivocally says about you

Album Rating: 5.0

Magical Mystery Tour is my favorite



do I lack feelings

Album Rating: 4.5

revolver is best beatles

help I can’t feel my sknob

I might be withering into social media obsolescence but you'll be shocked to learn that I'm aware of Mrs. Breakfast's anti-contrarian post on twitter wherein she somehow suggests that REVOLVER and TUSK share any artistic parallel and yet neither of the bands being discussed are named black midi hence my confusion./

Album Rating: 4.5

My mom always says Magical Mystery Tour was the first album she ever bought, which in theory set her on the path of being a Yes freak in high school and an even bigger Talking Heads one in college. And then she got married and saw U2 live twenty times in thirty years with my dad. And now it's just Brandi Carlile. "Hey mom whatcha listening to over there" "BRandi Carlile" it's always like this...

Album Rating: 5.0

Is being “more emotional” mean it’s better art and why tbh



That’s what I want to ask breakfast lady