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and Popjustice, makes me think I'm not doing what I would be doing if I started DiS today. I'm sure most people hate this kinda 'journalism' but it's exactly the hornet-nest jostling, dissenting voice the web should be offering.

if anything, it couldn't be anymore agreeable to the putridity of the status quo.

DiS is doing way better than you think. I don't hang around here cause I'm an anglophile.

Summary pls.

Detest all of the bands on this list except The Big Pink. I give the whole elctro, "animal bands" one more year and hopefully people will lose interest.

meta-dissent really be classified as dissent?

Biting satire.

If that's what music journalism should be aspiring to, then I'd say it's fucked.

I was insulted enough by the 'bros' from 'britain' speel (trying to claim credit for top american artists?), but what's with all the 'speech marks', desperately 'trying' to 'emphasises everything' as though 'quoting' the most 'moronic' indie cunt-flaps in history... sorry, 'history'.

only serves to highlight the chasm between critical acclaim and popular taste?

that this article was not good at all. I'm not even talking about the opinions here (though I could, mind you), but the writing is not funny, not insightful, and in a deliberate hipster ungrammatical way which in fact annoys me.

as I couldn't even read it. It was just incomprehensible.

but don't know if I rlly "get it" or if the joke is "on me." Just wanna chill and listen to some bros who make "cool tunez." <3 u carles.

if so I didnt "get it"

shit for cunts.

It's a cynical satire directed at online indie culture. Whether it's especially funny (or necessary) or not is up for debate, obviously, but he's definitely not reaffirming the status quo.

but this isn't it and neither is Popjustice, Holy Moly or Vice. They just arn't very funny, they try to be and thats admerable but it doesn't really work. They might find a funny subject but they don't nail it and they all do it in a really pretentious annoying way that comes out sounding like that giggling annoying drunk scenster type that wont leave you alone in the pub when you say you like indie music and read pitchfork once. They say comedians usualy want to be rock stars but they're yet to say comedians want to be music critics... and thats a shame cos it could be well funny.

It's not some big fucking secret that people select what they say based on what it communicates about them. There aren't any new or interesting observations there, and the person certainly seems like they don't like music. The message that they're trying to communicate is that they're too insecure to take a chance on admitting to enjoying something, so they might as well take the piss out of everything and hope someone thinks they're cool. Don't give them the satisfaction Sean.

it's like someone's pour bleach in my eyes whilst kicking my bollocks and tweezering each hair on my chest off as they sing Pokerface though a rugby mouth shield.

but why has making a clear point about something have to be so complicated. This kind of satire would work in one review or one article, but a whole site? It just comes across as stupid as the kind of people he's trying to imitate.

So looking 4ward for "real" things 2 become "cool" again.