Thread 128339016

It would be so funny if he ended up dying in the near future

>Hear about this guy on /mu/ for years
>Everyone seemingly seething about him and his bad takes
>Assume he's the most obnoxious retard on the planet
>Finally decide to watch him
>He's not even that annoying
>His takes are bad but nowhere near as offbase as I thought they would be
Why did you assholes put so much effort into keeping this guy relevant?

>>128339078
/mu/ chuds are still mindbroken that he abandoned them after being their guy

>>128339016 (OP)
Deadthony Corpsetano here, the internet's decomposing music nerd

What do people want in a critic/reviewer?

>I actually don't know
Do people not like Fantano because of his politics, reviews, or both?

Imagine him and Cuckgau dying. I can't wait.

>>128339078
I don't think anybody is assblasted by fantano, he's just a milquetoast boring hipster.

>>128340530
>What do people want in a critic/reviewer?
https://youtu.be/Bp0-SLonx8U?t=530

>>128339016 (OP)
rent free

>>128340530
they want old p4k that focused on indie and rock music instead of being poptimist garbage people

I can't wait for Fantano to get #MeToo'd

>>128340568
This. He's dull.

>>128340688
He's definitely one of those insufferably woke guys who has skeletons in their closet.

>>128339016 (OP)
Fantano is /ourguy/, if you don't like him you need to fucking go back

>>128340530
I prefer someone who refuses to use 'scores' to convey their critiques. Write about the music. Be obtuse if you want, write a personal short story. Anything except a score will work. Scores cheapen music reviews.

As for Fantano people on here definitely hate his politics (they aren't on /mu/ for music). He leans heavy into that quite a bit nowadays, sort of as a crutch when he's backed into a corner. It's an easy way to win the argument (about music) by moralizing instead of confronting his own tastes and biases. His reviews if you watch/listen to them often boil down to an adverb word salad with a score at the end that will tell you all you need to know. I used him as a tool to discover music back in the early 2010s when I didn't have my own methods of discovery figured out and was first getting into music. Can't imagine anyone using it for that reason now. He's not breaking artists like P4K used to do. He's often late to the party nowadays.

>>128340539
See you in the stickys

>>1283405301
>What do people want in a critic/reviewer?
- decent taste
- good analyzing skills
- good vocabulary
- consistency in ratings
- following quality over popularity
- focus on music (no bullshit like gossip or social media drama)

>>128339078
It’s because he deleted thatistheplan, his 4chan pandering meme channel. Watch a couple reuploads. Those are the videos that made people here like him. He cut that shit off to be more successful, but he actually plateaued.
So thats the tldr why people shit on him.
Yeah he’s actually solid at reviewing music, even if I disagree a lot. But some of us remember.

>>128339016 (OP)
Same with Kuntye

>>128340530
For them to actually know something about songwriting, production, music theory, instrumentation, or singing. They don't even have to be an expert in all of these, but at least know a little about some of them. Fantano's reviews are nothing but how an album made him feel and how unique he thinks something is compared to older music. He doesn't provide any deeper insight about the intricacies of making music and why a song works from a technical standpoint because he doesn't have enough knowledge about music to do so. There's a clip of him interviewing a rapper and telling him that his album made him cry, which no other album had ever done. Then the rapper asked him why he gave his album a 7 despite that, and Fantano could genuinely not answer him in any way because he does not know how to critique music outside of "vibes".

I like ToddintheShadows and his various retrospectives and occasional pop song reviews. I respect that he actually plays the songs he reviews on piano before they start, apparently that's partially why his upload schedule is so fucked.

>>128339016 (OP)
Do you know something that we don't, OP?

>>128341336
>Yeah he’s actually solid at reviewing music
Lol.

Reminder to never tell publicly if you’re having suicidal thoughts or been diagnosed with any kind of depression or anxiety or bipolar disorders because when they do come for you they’ll get away with it easier

>>128339016 (OP)
Agreed

>>128339016 (OP)
I think him living is far funnier.

/mu/ should protest his funeral like the Westboro Baptist Church

>>128340731
Was*
He's a traitorous moral leper who wouldn't even piss on you if you were on fire.

>>128342807
He's just an all around douche

>>128342698
rolling for killer riffs

>>128339016 (OP)
Yeah fuck this bald cuck lol

Wouldn't it be hilarious if Anthony Fantano was gangraped by migrants who mistook him for a donkey?

>>128339016 (OP)
this, so much this

>>128339078
He acts way worse on Twitter

>>128339078
You will grow to hate him with time if you pay enough attention to him. He's polite, civil and articulate about his opinions which are typically measured and levelheaded, but he has ushered in a modality of music consumerism that is beyond destructive to the relationship one fosters with the music they listen to. He and Pitchfork are responsible for this obsession with assigning everything a score and comparing every release to another release, as if you're playing fantasy football or something. Th way he talks about music more closely resembles the way one would talk about sports than art. People don't talk about most other forms of art this way. People don't do this shit with paintings.
One particularly annoying but interesting side effect of this mode of engaging with art is its anti-intellectualism. It fosters a tendency to forgo nuance entirely, consume as much as possible, and only be impressed by the loudest, most colorful things you encounter. Which I partially love because it causes the listener to seek out and reward more daring, challenging, avant musical statements, but I also hate it because it causes you to underestimate or even completely ignore albums that are demanding and deserving of more closely-paid attention through multiple, close listens. This explains Anthony's tendency to 'inexplicably' enrage his viewers with surprisingly low scores for albums that everybody likes (see: Choke Enough, Preacher's Daughter, most of hours Mac Miller reviews from before his death, his early takes on PC Music, etc). Anything that doesn't immediately grab him, or anything that requires some extra level of context gets thrown directly into the trash.

>>128344421
It's also a mode of listening that triggers a kind of musical ennui in many. Burning through album after album, 5 a day or more, rarely listening more than twice, never developing a relationship with anything, eating but never tasting...it causes everything to devolve into a mush of samey sameness and brings on a total loss of joy after some time. Sure, I guess a music critic's job is to listen to as much music as possible, and offer his opinions on it, but his influence has been abysmal and his contribution to the devaluation of music as a whole enormous.

Also, he's very much a wish-washer. This is evident from his Twitter postings. He often ditches his "deeply held" opinions at the drop of a hat and replaces it with whatever is en vogue this season. But that's whatever.

>>128340530
> What do people want in a critic/reviewer

1. Know your shit
2. Be funny
surprisingly I haven't seen this being achieved in music

>>128339016 (OP)
Death is not funny. That's a whole human being, that lived an entire life that you'll never understand.

Unless, of course, you're Dick Cheney. Fuck that freak.

>>128342325
Todd’s taste for new music is godawful