Meaghan Garvey From PitchFork Goes In On Drake

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

you shouldnt take anyone affiliated to pitchfork's opinion seriously

This

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Seems like white people and Jews are okay in "the culture" as long as they push the music you want and have the opinions you hold.

"Look guys, it's okay, this white hipster agrees too!"

 

[Roid Jones]

I'm sorry but what exactly is this about, can somebody break it down to me

 

[K.O.N.Y]

"It’s funny that Drake has doubled down on his anti-Internet thing, because Drake is the master of working your angles, the selfie strategy of the twitter honeys he takes arbitrary pot-shots at throughout If You’re Reading This Its Too Late. (And I absolutely think it is significant that, on this album, living this aspirational simulacrum Tumblr life, or whatever, is generally characterized as feminine.) Drake is no longer the living meme, the LOOK AT HIS SWEATER guy, that he was even two years ago. 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.

And shyt—I can relate to that! But that does not make it any more interesting or worthy of further exploration than those Been Trill shirts with all the logos on them circa 2013, which is to say, a bunch of symbols stripped of the thing they symbolize. A bunch of women’s names that you have woven into your story for the purpose of having a story to tell.

Drake used to pine for the 21st century Thot Pangaea that is “Houstatlantavegas.” Now he is Mr. Toronto and is making “The 6” a thing and has, I guess, been that guy all along, he and his woes, since way before hashtags. Two years ago, we would have ripped him to shreds for this kind of thing, like we did when he said that he started from the bottom. Nobody cares anymore. Whatever man, just keep making great-sounding music (and If You’re Reading This is great-sounding, as a total package, there is very little denying this) and you can be whoever you say you are, “6 God.”

But Drake, as a character, has become (or has revealed himself to have always been) one of the most boring types of people on earth: a composite of aspirational projections that has taken control of his host body. Don’t get me wrong, this will in no way prevent me from stomping through Bed Stuy with “10 Bands” on repeat with the thizz face on 1000. But let’s stop conflating “good” and “special.” And let’s stop entertaining dude’s bizarre Neo-Luddisms that he has convinced himself are deeper than “bytches be like [this]“ memes. “And show me pictures of they frieeeends / Just to tell me they ain’t really frieeeends”: kinda sounds like the Cliff’s Notes version of a Drake song, now that I think about it."

Yo shorty blacked out on this shyt lmao

 

[TEH]

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.

I read it as rap artist should be honest and consistent. But even though shes right Pitchfork culture vultures have no credibility in these matters.

 

[Mike Otherz]

wow, she is up there with grantlands molly lambert when it comes to pseudo intellectual rap analysis with a feminist bent. i’ll save you a lot of time, these feminists writers only like rappers they wanna have sex with, aint got shyt to do with gender politics at all/ hell, this bish sounds like one those “anonymous" chicks drake sings about and whose purses he goes through when they taking in the bathroom. and i dont like drake, but o’l girl and her pitchfork opinion?

drake is good but not special? what type of overwrought overthought type shyt is that? i guess she hates herslf for being a victim of dudes like drake in real life who move on real quick?

 

[Tetris v2.0]

She didn't tell one lie, though.

I have to agree and Im fukk P4K all day. She called it like it is

 

[satireprod]

I don't take ANYTHING Cacfork says seriously.

Straight up. Pitchfork likes to be a contrarian, they like to hold onto their ideas of artist and when they become ultra popular (even though Drake has been at this point) they shun them. Basically thinking its cool to say its uncool.

 

[Piff Perkins]

IE Drake turned Pitchfork down for a big September "cover" story to coincide with his album. Get ready for that 7.9, Aubrey.

 

[Love Sosa]

you shouldnt take anyone affiliated to pitchfork's opinion seriously

would rep if i had the ability

 

[Love Sosa]

fukk this hipster pseudo psychological tumblr pitchfork bullshytfukk up bytch

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

Y'all do realize publications tend to have multiple authors, therefore you're going to get multiple opinions and views on a topic.

Day 1 shyt.

 

[September]

Reading this, it seems like she inflated how Drake really was in her mind because her opinions are not new or groundbreaking. Everyone knows Drake has been and still is cornball, just with more money and rapper cool points. I feel like most people know that he always plays the sensitive guy card and it's exactly that, a card. If she claims to be that big of a Drake fan, she should've known. Most people don't care as long as he keeps making good music. Seems like she won't either.

 

[88TwoInfinity]

She told no lies.

Maturing and portraying a composite of images you think are cool are not the same thing.

If you really look at Drake he is nothing like the image he portrays. And now we know why since QM is really the voice of most of IYRTITL . Salute to her for stanning Drake but having enough common sense to know the formula that made him who he is. So you can't say she's being biased.

As a publication pitchfork gets it right sometimes this happens to be one of those times.

What other writers have delivered as accurate a ether as this.

 

[OneManGang]

LOL @ the cornballs in here picking sides with this cac just to shyt on a rapper they don't like.