There is nothing "gloomy" about the music that Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras make on this album. Maybe you're just depressed.

Your response is completely histrionic given the subject matter in question. Pop music is a CGI tart and it always has been. You are clinging to old-fashioned ideas about authenticity that have been thoroughly deconstructed time and again. There is nothing wrong with the commodification of pop music; not only is it a…

Why can't mercurialism, eclecticism, shifting genre and sound, etc. be a musical identity? Maybe Minaj is trying to present herself as "not any one thing," a chameleon in the style of Madonna or Lady GaGa before her, but even more fragmented, slippery, cartoonish, virtual, unreal. That is a radical strategy in a music…

"I also like giving A-pluses to just one part of a multi-pronged marketing plan.  What a tremendous achievement."

Hip-hop/r&b "albums" these days are just one part of a multi-pronged marketing plan that involves videos, live appearances, advertisements, iTunes exclusives, merchandising, etc. You can go ahead and keep thinking of it as an "album," but it wouldn't fit on an LP, and I suspect that very little thought went into the…

Cool. Have fun with your hi-fi stereo, grandpa.

I think the criticism that an album is "incoherent" - i.e. disjointed, full of different kinds of songs, no unifying style or concept - is really old-fashioned, totally irrelevant to the way music is purchased and consumed in the 21st century. It's a holdover from the era of progressive rock, when each album was a…

No, it wasn't. It was terrible. Just terrible.

I love Community, but aside from his work on that show, Donald Glover is terrible. Just terrible.

MDMA is "already-passé"? What is this opinion based on, exactly? I really hate it when writers talk about drug culture with an air of jaded ennui but evince no actual knowledge about the thing that is supposedly "over." MDMA has been around in the club scene since the 1970s, and it's showing no signs of waning…

Bullshit. I liked TMNT, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Thundercats, etc. as much as any kid who grew up in the 80s and 90s. Perhaps more than any kid. I loved TMNT in particular and rarely missed an episode of the animated show. I grew up and realized the show was pure shit. Not because I have something against it, but…

I can maybe understand why the creators of franchises such as TMNT and Thundercats and He-Man object to the way that their source material is adapted to the screen, but I will never understand why members of the public get all defensive and protective. It doesn't make any sense. TMNT was pretty stupid to begin with.…

People who are against the 48-hour pill are just wacky. I don't even know what to say about that. It seems like they are just trying to be difficult. I can sort of maybe sympathize with people who find abortion a little bit repugnant - I don't agree, but I could maybe understand the position - but being against a pill…

I'm pro-abortion, but I've always been annoyed that people consistently frame the issue as "a woman's body" and "a woman's right to choose." A fetus is not, strictly speaking, part of a woman's body. There are all kinds of biological systems in place that keep the fetus quite separate from the mother. It has its own…

I strongly disagree with this review. I loved Lynne Ramsay's other films, and I love Tilda Swinton, and I had heard very good things about the book upon which it is based, so I had high hopes for this film. Unfortunately, the film is almost completely derailed by the ridiculously facile way in which the Kevin…

I can't get over Ed's constantly swiveling jaw and disgusting chin pubes.

Great observation! Because as we all know, counting the number of black people represented in a given instance of media, or in any group, is absolutely the way to advance race relations. Policing the sphere of media representation and pointing out when a certain racial group is not represented in significant enough…

Is anyone else super annoyed by the way Edward Lee's jaw swivels back and forth when he talks? What is up with that?

Yeah, James Blake not taking the top spot is a giant FAIL.

No, they didn't forget. In fact, they remembered…that P.J. Harvey's music is boring and irrelevant. Good for them.