Forbes contribution articles are basically where social justice bloggers live, sleep and ****
I pay them 0 mind
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Originally posted by iStanGaga
The ramblings of a Forbes intern and struggling artist will be forgotten even by internet trolls by tomorrow so I hope that puts this into perspective.
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Originally posted by Vin
Seems like all of the notable, well-respected Jazz musicians don't
really respect Tony Bennett and have criticized "Cheek 2 Cheek." Yikes.
I force-fed myself those articles (it has two parts ) yesterday. It's a feast of over-analyzing something beyond the point of nonsense and self-mockery of the author himself. It's like the album sounds so good it makes him angry.
This tbh. With comments about black music and "age disparities" he makes himself sound extremely pressedT. Like what the hell does Gaga and Bennett's age difference have anything to do with the album? He's just another try-hard critic failing at his job by critiquing the artists and not the MUSIC like he's supposed to.
Who curr, Forbes stlll gonna stick Gaga at the top end of their yearly celeb lists
Exactly, things like this crack me up. Billboard does the same. And who cares if Tony isn't the greatest jazz singer of his era? He's still here and sounding good and making #1 albums so... The author can stay pressed.
It was announced 2 years ago, why are they calling it a STUNT just now ?
And Frank Sinatra himself has said that Tony Bennet is the greatest in the industry and the fact that anyone can have the nerve to be THAT dissrespectful to a legend like Tony, the oldest man in history to have a number 1 album is just PETTY.
Then Gaga’s voice enters virtually unadorned—sure there is some reverb, some delay, but no autotune—and a curious thought comes to mind: wow, she might actually be able to pull this off.
Her timing is spot on—which is to say slightly behind the beat—and her use of vibrato is exactly what you’d want to hear from a jazz singer: she keeps the notes straight and pure as she holds them out, then applies the least little touch of vibrato at the end to give the note some emphasis. This is a sign of maturity in a singer; this is a sign of sensitivity.
How Meghan Trainor Is Exploiting Body Image, Just Like Everybody Else
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What I don’t find admirable about this song—what I actually find downright exploitative—is the force-fed nature of the body-positive message, the package in which the material has been sold to us. Frankly, I find it disingenuous.
In a similar way, the song “All About That Bass” might be lyrically subversive—never more than when it borrows lyrics from “Sexy Back”; on the other hand, its video—and the ubiquitous iterations of the video’s aesthetic in billboards, posters (visible these days all over New York), and marketing gimmicks—are co-opting of a great many things: the kinds of videos made by so-called “skinny b**ches” like Iggy Azalea and Ariana Grande, and the landmark video for Pharrell’s “Happy”–both are two notable examples.
It is co-opting and not subversive because the aesthetic choice was meant to sell you the artist’s brand, with body-politics becoming the engine of that sale: every visual choice is gunning for your dirty dollar.
He's basically saying she shouldn't be doing what "skinny bitches" do in their videos [even though she's rebuffed that comment's meaning a trillion times]. She shouldn't look happy, or pretty. She should be eating cake, lying down on a sofa and watching TV for four minutes.
She also shouldn't be force feeding positivity into the world. She should stop trying.
I think the writer is just bitter,
His recent "articles" are: How Meghan Trainor Is Exploiting Body Image, Just Like Everybody Else
How Thom Yorke's Latest Push Against The Music Industry Might Backfire
Ariana Grande Can't Sing As Well As You Think She Can
) yesterday. It's a feast of over-analyzing something beyond the point of nonsense and self-mockery of the author himself. It's like the album sounds so good it makes him angry. 
With comments about black music and "age disparities" he makes himself sound extremely pressedT. 
Like what the hell does Gaga and Bennett's age difference have anything to do with the album? 
He's just another try-hard critic failing at his job by critiquing the artists and not the MUSIC like he's supposed to.
they read the good sis Tony for FILTH 
