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[Wilfrid]

My favorite version of Paolo Conte's best known song.

 

[Wilfrid]

4 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:

How am I in a position to make unqualified assertions about "the best pop songs"?

I think one only has to know a bit about Anglo-American pop since 1956 to be able to say that "Call Me Maybe," while appealing, is not "one of the greatest pop songs of all time."

[Orik]

I'm pretty sure ethnocentric coverage is not a major factor in Pitchfork's decline. 

[backyardchef]

2 hours ago, Sneakeater said:

But seriously, you can't say "greatest pop songs of all time" without some kind of qualifier.

Unless you're deeply familiar with all Asian, African, Latin American, and indeed all European pop music.

(Flagging @mongo in case he's around.)

So, your fight is really with Pitchfork's choice of words. 

 

[backyardchef]

I wonder if Sietsema wrote that Carly Rae Jepsen endorsement. 

[Sneakeater]

9 minutes ago, backyardchef said:

So, your fight is really with Pitchfork's choice of words. 

 

No no no.  I'm not fighting Pitchfork at all.

I'm fighting people here who posted lists of "greatest pop songs" all of which happened to come from the U.S. and Britain without qualifying that they meant "greatest Anglo-American pop songs".

[Wilfrid]

But you're ignoring the context which is the reference to Carly Rae, a reference that can be challenged without straying outside the Anglo-American or indeed just American space.

To put it another way, if you started to list American pop songs that would be generally accepted as superior to "Call Me Maybe," you'd die before you finished.

[GerryOlds2TheReturnofGerry]

This gets progressively less weird as you scroll down, but it starts off with some head-scratchers. https://ny.eater.com/maps/where-to-eat-guide-valentines-day-nyc

[Wilfrid]

I try to cut Eater some slack but “a just right finale to a holiday meal” tells me this is paid media, not editorial. Embarrassing. 

[Sneakeater]

+1

[Sneakeater]

Or +1000000000

[small h]

I thought the only people who went to Bella Blu were your friend's parents who live in Chatham.

[small h]

(And me, if said friend's parents are picking up the tab.)

[Anthony Bonner]

8 hours ago, small h said:

I thought the only people who went to Bella Blu were your friend's parents who live in Chatham.

That reminds me I need to figure out where to eat before that ballet tonight.

 

N.b. I just live Chatham adjacent. Those people are monsters.

[Anthony Bonner]

9 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

I try to cut Eater some slack but “a just right finale to a holiday meal” tells me this is paid media, not editorial. Embarrassing. 

Even by their low standards this screamed advertorial 

[backyardchef]

Pay for play at Eater!? Whoda thunk it.....

[Orik]

4 hours ago, Anthony Bonner said:

Even by their low standards this screamed advertorial 

Would it be better if this turned out to be a genuine list?

[Sneakeater]

It couldn’t.

It just couldn’t.  

Edited February 8, 2024 by Sneakeater

[Wilfrid]

10 hours ago, Orik said:

Would it be better if this turned out to be a genuine list?

Is dumb better than corrupt? 

[Sneakeater]

It wouldn’t even be dumb.

It would be random. 

[backyardchef]

11 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Is dumb better than corrupt? 

Why can't it be both? 

[Sneakeater]

On 12/7/2023 at 1:44 PM, Wilfrid said:

Like: 

Oh, that's one cuisine? Weird that it has two names.

I always wondered why the food at K-Paul's and Antoine's was so similar. :heavy-sarcasm:

He's baaaaaaacccccckkkkkkk:

https://ny.eater.com/2024/2/13/24070659/file-gumbo-bar-tribeca-new-orleans-cajun-creole-review

[backyardchef]

19 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:

He's baaaaaaacccccckkkkkkk:

https://ny.eater.com/2024/2/13/24070659/file-gumbo-bar-tribeca-new-orleans-cajun-creole-review

He has arisen

[Sneakeater]

I guess it's getting near that time.

[GerryOlds2TheReturnofGerry]

I'm a Lowerline fan, but that does look pretty good -- and I like that they have gumbo z'herbes.