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...came upon Pitchfork around the tenth grade, and was, for a while, the sole user of said opinion-generator amongst my peers in Duluth, Minnesota. All I needed to do was grab three bands off the home page and download some of their songs in order for my “eclectic” musical taste to reach renown...
...Shins” molded me into a veritable musical übermensch, a power I abused to court “the ladies” and plug into the local college community. For that profound expansion of social capital, I am eternally indebted to Pitchfork...
...wasn’t until arriving here that Pitchfork’s hidden flaws reared their ugly heads. My sense of camaraderie in musical savvy quickly gave way to a startling realization: every one of these indie-philes I was meeting read Pitchfork daily, adapted it to their needs, and in doing so crafted a musical “personality” though a process as efficient as a Model T assembly line. Some read further than others, wading through the blandly melodic and arriving in the safe realm of the avant-garde (read: unlistenable...
...Okay, the way I see it, you’re making the typical hater criticism of Pitchfork, and really, the criticism that our dads probably made towards Golden-Age Rolling Stone and that their dads made of Prehistoric Big Band Monthly or whatever...
Here’s my argument: That class system is always gonna be there. Jerks are jerks, now and forever. Even in a Fork-free environment, people are going to find out about obscure yam-based concertos, and lord that information over those who don’t. What Pitchfork does is actually widen the playing field, and harness the power of the jerks to empower the non-jerks...