Jul 31, 2023Utopia is a 4.8/10
Travis dropped mid
We still enjoy it though
Please drive traffic to HHDX instead of Conde Nast's yuppie division
Jul 31, 2023·2 repliesi don't like the review but lmao
- Jul 31, 2023emo genghis khan
i don't like the review but lmao
https://twitter.com/Rap301_/status/1685877221934673920 absolute sandals
ktt sees some paragraphs about a project and it’s either you’re Caucasian or a hipster
Jul 31, 2023·1 replyI like the album it's a fairly good review ngl. Alphonse is a hater but at least he can articulate an opinion unlike most reviewers these days
- Jul 31, 2023
Stupid
- Jul 31, 2023·3 repliesDippydog
You were raving about the uzi album that got the same score?
I stopped listening to it when the score came out. I only listen to albums that are certified by both pitchfork and fantano as at least an 8/10
- Jul 31, 2023
Lmaoooo
Jul 31, 2023·1 reply
LaFleurThat first sentence was so god damn foul.
"The Norwegian pop singer’s second album never met a problem it couldn’t solve by the first chorus"
I would've stopped doing music on the spot if someone ever wrote this about my s***
'gay club filler' is crrrrazy
- Jul 31, 2023
codeine cowboyguarantee the score would’ve been higher if the tragedy didn’t happen
These critics review artists nowadays instead of the music
Can't take them serious at all anymore
- Jul 31, 2023·1 replyJohn Mauve
I like the album it's a fairly good review ngl. Alphonse is a hater but at least he can articulate an opinion unlike most reviewers these days
He didn't articulate much of anything though
He basically took personal digs at the people he collaborated with and was upset that Travis's music didn't sound closer to Houston's rap scene. He didn't like the songwriting either which is a valid point but everything else he argues from is immaterial to the assessment of the music in its material form.
Jul 31, 2023·1 replyFor a site that claims to hate Pitchfork yall always make threads about their reviews that do numbers and end up giving em more clicks
- Jul 31, 2023
soapmanwunreviews are bad vibes
Utopia is good vibes
I know who I'm siding with
Jul 31, 2023·1 replySkinn Foleyyou can even hates its guts that's fine, HHDX gave it a 4.8/10 and that's totally legit because HHDX is a worthy publication
Pitchfork barely discusses the music in their reviews. They are a stain on the legacy of music journalism and there's a reason so few of their writers ever become anything special outside of their tenure at the publication or as independent writers.
i don’t even hate p4k tbh, i like that they’re willing to give some biting criticism sometimes because a lot of platforms refuse to, in order to coddle industry relationships.
but sometimes it feels so unbalanced lol. like fam, “He waters down the cutting-edge sounds of the past” is complete bullshit lol this is his most forward thinking album production wise ever. i wouldn’t call his past album safe but they just aren’t as ambitious as this.
Jul 31, 2023Soon
- Jul 31, 2023XANTA
For a site that claims to hate Pitchfork yall always make threads about their reviews that do numbers and end up giving em more clicks
it’s mostly niggas that can’t even put together a coherent thought to explain their view on an project coming in here talking about how much they don’t care about Pitchfork though
like yeah niggas that sum up their feelings with classic/mid or some arbitrary ass number hates Pitchfork, what a surprise
ion like Pitchfork either but some of these niggas got no business even saying anything
- Jul 31, 2023willcherry
i don’t even hate p4k tbh, i like that they’re willing to give some biting criticism sometimes because a lot of platforms refuse to, in order to coddle industry relationships.
but sometimes it feels so unbalanced lol. like fam, “He waters down the cutting-edge sounds of the past” is complete bullshit lol this is his most forward thinking album production wise ever. i wouldn’t call his past album safe but they just aren’t as ambitious as this.
It's because none of the writing in the reviews aside from his criticisms of the songwriting (which is fair) has anything to do with the music as it actually exists or even as it exists relative to other albums within or outside of hip hop. It's just personal digs at Travis's creative choices because they aren't "regional" enough or aren't up to whatever esoteric standards of "cutting edge" the author holds despite reviewing other less sonically ambitious and "cutting edge" music considerably higher in his other reviews lol. It's a hatepiece disguised as journalism. Tabloid s***.
- Jul 31, 2023·1 replySkinn Foley
He didn't articulate much of anything though
He basically took personal digs at the people he collaborated with and was upset that Travis's music didn't sound closer to Houston's rap scene. He didn't like the songwriting either which is a valid point but everything else he argues from is immaterial to the assessment of the music in its material form.
He draws on why Kanye is ultimately better at making blockbuster Rap because of him "saying s***". The lack of Texas roots in the music compared to his first two albums was true but you can call it bitter if you want. His takedown on K-Pop was funny (I have grown to like that song). Idk I think he's a decent writer with his own voice.
- Jul 31, 2023
EverythingI just can't get over Travis being the worst part of every song he's on. Dude is a great curator like his father but has no f***ing charisma or songwriting chops whatsoever. Dude may as well be AI.
32 Years old and his lyrics are kid s***
- Jul 31, 2023
Can't believe y'all got me defending a bloke who works for Conde Nast tho. It's Joever
- Jul 31, 2023
medschooldropout24Did you read the whole thread?
How is there not a real person at the core when theres songs on there like THANK GOD, MY EYES, PARASAIL?
The critic says Travis never once addresses the festival tragedy- he does implicitly and even explicitly throughout the entire thing. The whole message of the album in my eyes is that you "create your own UTOPIA" by choosing to focus on the good and not the bad. On Thank God he addresses the pressure he's putting on himself to follow up ASTROWORLD with an even better album, using the grammys as a motivating factor. On My Eyes he raps "If only they knew what Scotty would do to jump off the stage and save him a child." Which in my opinion, again reflects the idea of positive framing, he could have easily been like who bring a 9 year old to a concert where the rage is everywhere. On GOD"S COUNTRY, he raps that he has a 100k fans jumping and that they need space when they jam. I'm perhaps taking this too literally, but as the mechanism of the deaths was asphyxiation in a crowd crush for all 10 deaths, they were crushed because of a lack of space.There's a bunch of other examples, but I'll use PARASAIL but to me, that song is literally therapy and using positive affirmations.
Those are some of my thoughts. If you need this guy's thread he's saying there is nothing thought provoking in Travis's lyrics. I disagree.
Jul 31, 2023didnt read but whatever he said hes right