Bowie's a good example, certainly in the closeness of his working relationships with his producers (Eno and Visconti). The songs are usually his alone, though.

I mean, Darden was played sympathetically as all get out but he had his share of wrong, terrible decisions as well. It was a terrible team effort!

Brutal double murder — massive government mishandling of a disaster — killing spree culminating in the murder of a celebrity — lying under oath

Interesting! I never really disliked her. She was strident, but you can always tell she was motivated by her disgust with OJ's wifebeating.

"Wait a minute, Rubber Man was Bette Davis all along?? Bullshit."

I wouldn't say the bias in them is completely gone, insomuch as all standardized testing carries some degree of bias, but the new editions are certainly more valid than in previous years. It's a valid measure of certain things for sure — I think the dumb name has done a fine test a pretty big disservice.

This looks…good?

The 27 writers number gets thrown around like it's something obscene, but like you said, most of those writing credits recognize a singular, often small, contribution (God knows even a majority of a my credits are for things I didn't put my entire soul into). But it's not like Diplo, James Blake, and Father John Misty…

Man, those two being tied for the most Grammys does more to boost the Grammys credibility than any single award. Pretty amazing talents.

It should also be pointed out she has a producer and writer credit on literally every song on Lemonade. You could chalk this up to her swinging her influence around, but there's no major through line between any of the other writers or producer on the album! If there's one person ensuring the consistency between…

She's the artist. She makes the decisions about what music she records, how she records it, what the tone and tenor of her albums are, the release schedule, the vision for the visual look…

One of the cruel ironies of this post was it was published on Twitter with a broken link initially. Yikes. The DeVos curse.

Why is it risky?

The Herbie Hancock Joni album is at least good, if nothing else. "25"…is not.

Jesus Christ. I was not expecting to find this out tonight. I was just thinking about Buzz' death the other day.

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Yep. I went into La La Land expecting to hate it, but it's a fucking great movie. I loved Moonlight and Elle more than I loved it, but it's still an excellent film.

Essentially. Honestly, my distaste for Jacob is pretty personally rooted — he's a nice enough guy who's obviously talented, but his music is so fundamentally pandering and uninteresting and so predicated on "virtuosity" with no real artistic sense or any vision beyond "what if music but MUCH". It's a cappella music in…

This is probably the only major social media sphere where I can safely say: fuck Jacob Collier. His bullshit has now earned him two Grammys.

I'd marry Trump, because apparently I wouldn't even have to live in the same city as him.