This is the review I remember:

There's still plenty of time left in the day for six or seven more Swift articles.

I think the thing I read on TMT that sealed its fate for me was something about a guy who makes tracks that are literally these minimal beats with random noises overlayed, where he occasionally shouts a phrase over and over, and sets it all to a video of a camera zooming into a blank wall over and over again. The Tiny…

I was going to say "I thought my hazing was complete by now," but I should really know better.

That's not super encouraging, as while I've found the AVC's coverage to have skewed really uninteresting and bland, everything I've read on Tiny Mix Tapes has seemed insufferable (perhaps I've read the wrong things).

Fair enough. Now let's all get drunk and play ping-pong.

Come on, there's a pretty wide gulf between somebody saying "I do not like Taylor Swift and her music" and "I am making fun of it for being crap." Just because somebody says A doesn't mean they're also saying B, and not liking Taylor Swift doesn't mean all of us are "haters" or snobs.

This, very much. It's like the people like Swift have been elevated above criticism because "it's just fun pop" and if you don't like it, you're just a "hater" and people, as you say, often jump down your throat.

I think it's a bit unfair to say that anybody who doesn't subscribe to poptimism and doesn't listen to Taylor Swift uncritically only likes stuff that sounds "like it was produced in a cheap studio loft in Brooklyn." I can't stand Swift and the other people in her bracket of music, but the stuff I *do* like is often…

I'd love that to be the case. It wore out its welcome with me a long time ago.

I like forms of pop but cannot stand the poptimism thing that's taken over music writing. It's elevated generic Top 40 hits to a High Art and removed it from criticism, because if you don't like it, you're just a "hater" or you're a snob.

I don't know about Spotify, but I know Rdio offers up its music in 320kbps MP3, so…that sounds better than fine. Let alone the services like Apple's that use AAC, which sounds even better at a given bit rate.

Oh, the clickbait won't be going anywhere.

Eventually, all the actual content here will be contained in a small postage stamp-sized window only accessible by clicking through ten clickbait ads.

Was the third one also going to be written by mega-hacks Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman? What is their deal with ruining things with magic death-reversing blood/formulas?

I first watched Ramsey via the British version of Kitchen Nightmares, and that experience made me genuinely like him. It's the subsequent American shows that have lodged him into the screaming madness that a lot of people don't like, but when he's not being amped up by Fox he comes across much better.

British and American KN might as well be completely different shows. Ramsey is so much more human and likable on the British version (and the show around him is so much more grounded and interesting, too).

The differences between the two KNs are staggering. Mrs. Tomorrowville and I started off on the British one, and it was the only one we knew for a long time. When we first watched episodes of the American version, it was really off-putting. They might as well not even be the same show.

Another longtime Sara Rue crush here - it never ceases to bum me out the kind of shows she gets stuck in.

Oh, haha, no gossip implied - "Wade" was the username of who I replied to with my dr. u impression.