Dude, bad mana base is not a format.

Except that's terrible business practices - an established community is a guaranteed source of ad revenue because they will return to comment, debate, and continue the conversation. If you lose that community on the site, you're starting from scratch and you lose the ability to retain viewers, which become the real…

This is not a 'fearful of change' attitude - if this site had all of the functionality of the previous AV Club site… well, sure there would be complaints about the aesthetics of it all (most of which are questionable), but it'd be significantly more tolerable than this.

Also, fun question: the AV Club used to have a handy list of their featured articles where one could easily track down, say, Hatesong or the Tolerability Index or any one of the many, many featured series of articles that made The AV Club worthwhile… where did that list go? Are you trying to bury your history, AV Club?

I think I'm going to stand by the singles choice, but at least to me, this record just feels a little bit more steeped in 'conventional' R&B and funk than The ArchAndroid was, which means we don't get some of the insane experimentation that made that album so damn fun with songs like 'Come Alive (The War Of The…

Well, here's the interpretation of that song I've always gone with: it's a song directed a Fall Out Boy fans who abandoned and dismissed the band when they vanished for five years, all described in terms of that of a girl cheating on her boyfriend. According to Pete Wentz, those of us who 'grew out' of Fall Out Boy…

I'm starting to think that Kanye West has the severe problem of self-identifying as a villain. It kind of makes a twisted sort of sense, how he attempts to construct a facade of arrogance in his music that's so easily shattered, how his massive hypocrisy continues to rear up time and time again, how he attempts to…

As I said, I'm not the biggest fan of Arctic Monkeys, but I actually did like the direction they were going on 'Suck It And See' - but 'AM' just feels toothless to me. This isn't me holding onto the ghost of 'Favourite Worst Nightmare', this is more me having the desire for the band to kick the songwriting up a notch.

Seriously?

Woody Harrelson does not look like he's dressed for the same movie as the rest of the cast in that picture.

Having read The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling clearly aspires to that.

Yeah, I tend to think that if lyrics are included in the song, they're something that the artist included as part of the piece and thus I care about them to some extent. If Trent Reznor didn't want us to care about the lyrics, he shouldn't have included them (and on Ghosts, he did just that).

I swear, I feel like I'm the only one who can't stand The Fragile. Maybe it's because I relistened to it recently and it just sounds like the late 90s vomited into a cistern of terrible lyrics on loan from the nu metal studio next door, but man, it really doesn't hold up for me. And Things Falling Apart was even worse.

Liked if only for 'Odds Are'. Goddamnit, that's a great pop single and it's likely going to land on my list of my favourite songs of the year. It reminded me of old-school Barenaked Ladies in the best possible way.

Funny thing, Glee attempted to have Dot-Marie Jones sing this song with a lower-pitched voice, and I always thought it sounded better than Dolly Parton's version anyway (nothing against Parton, she's just not my thing).

No, just the clap.

They're sure as hell better than the rest of John Mayer's discography.

Well, that escalated quickly.

I'll be completely honest here - if John Oliver were to start his own show, I'd watch the hell out of it. He goes for a different kind of humour than Jon Stewart, and he seems to have tempered it in a way that feels a bit smarter and a bit more in-depth than Stewart has delivered in recent years.

You really shouldn't, because 'Deuces' is a song that represents precisely everything about why Chris Brown is a fucking terrible human being. It's one of the worst songs of 2010, complete with a terrible verse from Kevin McCall (one of the worst C-listers working today), Tyga's verse feeling like it belongs in a…