Meaghan Garvey From PitchFork Goes In On Drake

[Deltron]

....why would you tattoo yourself with that? That's almost as bad as the broad who tatt'ed DRAKE on her forehead

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

You meek stans are losing your minds


And I love it

I'm not a meek Stan I'm in for fukkery

 

[Guess Who]

So she basically wrote an article saying Drake is fake because he wasn't cool growing up, but became cool due to the maturation process of his personality that he experienced during his rise to superstardom.

Just a pseudo-intellectual fluff piece that doesn't really say anything substantial about...anything related to Drake as a person, his music, his location in the contemporary pop culture framework, or is career. And she need to stop using big words she doesn't understand well enough to recognize that they don't go well together.

"Drake, you weren't cool before so that gives you no right to be cool now that you're famous!" That's basically what she's saying in her article. She even goes on to admit that her life story is similar. So why she so mad? Maybe because Drake was able to transform into a cool person more successfully than she has. Sounds like envy to me.

She acting like most people aren't awkward in high school and become cooler once they become successful in their careers. This is a common narrative for most working professionals in the West.

Basically what I mean to say is fukk this bytch and her bullshyt article.

 

[onelastdeath]

But he represents what the internet represents: the possibility to make yourself into whoever you want to be, if you stack your cards right. Drake is every NYC media bro who had an okay, if unremarkable, high school experience, didn’t lose his virginity til he was 18, considers himself a nerdy underdog, moves to the big city, and undertakes a years-long personal brand makeover, in which he projects signifiers of cool for long enough and with enough study that one day, almost imperceptively, he becomes cool—and once he realizes it, he is intoxicated with power.

 

[onelastdeath]

So she basically wrote an article saying Drake is fake because he wasn't cool growing up, but became cool due to the maturation process of his personality that he experienced during his rise to superstardom.

Just a pseudo-intellectual fluff piece that doesn't really say anything substantial about...anything related to Drake as a person, his music, his location in the contemporary pop culture framework, or is career.

"Drake, you weren't cool before so that gives you no right to be cool now that you're famous!" That's basically what she's saying in her article. She even goes on to admit that her life story is similar. So why she so mad? Maybe because Drake was able to transform into a cool person more successfully than she has. Sounds like envy to me.

She acting like most people aren't awkward in high school and become cooler once they become successful in their careers. This is a common narrative for most working professionals in the West.

Basically what I mean to say is fukk this bytch and her bullshyt article.

Struck a nerve there huh?

 

[Citi Trends]

let me guess you ridin with the vulture now huh?

 

[Guess Who]

Struck a nerve there huh?

As someone who has written for publications before, I dislike bad writing.

 

[onelastdeath]

As someone who has written for publications before, I dislike bad writing.

As someone who writes for publications now, I thought she wrote it well. what was "bad" about the article?

 

[onelastdeath]

let me guess you ridin with the vulture now huh?

Whether you're riding with the author in the OP, or you're riding with Drake, either you're riding with a culture vulture

 

[Citi Trends]

Whether you're riding with the author in the OP, or you're riding with Drake, either you're riding with a culture vulture

so why not take the logical route and ride for neither one? but i get you have to grasp for that w somehow
i guarantee if i go in that other cac woman's thread about meek you in there talkin shyt tho

 

[Guess Who]

As someone who writes for publications now, I thought she wrote it well. what was "bad" about the article?

What's wrong with her article is she's slamming Drake for a maturation process that she admits to going through herself. Her opinion on the matter also assumes that rap artists are cool, should be cool, and always have been cool.

Then she goes on to say that it doesn't really matter because she's going to bump his music anyway because the music is what matters most (which I agree with). So if that's the case, then why go at Drake, accusing him of manufacturing an image of coolness, and why act like that's a bad thing? It's what most people do growing up through adolescence and young adulthood. Why should Drake be held to a different standard because he's a pop/rap artist?

She's all over the place.

If you want to go at Drake, talk about him being over-emotional, a terrible boyfriend, trying to be tough when he's not, claiming streets and blocks he's never been on, etc.

But instead she wrote a piece castigating the dude for GROWING UP.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

no thanks

 

[onelastdeath]

so why not take the logical route and ride for neither one? but i get you have to grasp for that w somehow
i guarantee if i go in that other cac woman's thread about meek you in there talkin shyt tho

nikka I'm here to slander Drake by any means

 

[Broad Street Bully]

I thought cac bytches shouldn't have a voice on these particular matters?

 

[onelastdeath]

What's wrong with her article is she's slamming Drake for a maturation process that she admits to going through herself. Her opinion on the matter also assumes that rap artists are cool, should be cool, and always have been cool.

Then she goes on to say that it doesn't really matter because she's going to bump his music anyway because the music is what matters most (which I agree with). So if that's the case, then why go at Drake, accusing him of manufacturing an image of coolness, and why act like that's a bad thing? It's what most people do growing up through adolescence and young adulthood. Why should Drake be held to a different standard because he's a pop/rap artist?

She's all over the place.

If you want to go at Drake, talk about him being over-emotional, a terrible boyfriend, trying to be tough when he's not, claiming streets and blocks he's never been on, etc.

But instead she wrote a piece castigating the dude for GROWING UP.

So say you disagree with her opinion. And that you don't identify with the piece. Don't say it was poorly written, or flat out terrible. Because it wasn't.