Review of Review

Matthew Keene
Prof. De Rogatis
1/29/2012

Review of Review

Petrusich on Decemberists:
Pitchfork’s Amanda Petrusich gave “The King Is Dead” 7.2 out of 10 which I deem fair. She answers to a lot of reviews that claim Meloy’s “attitude” in song writing has faded. Meloy has country roots and feels as the Decembrists are closing a chapter in their career, he needs to touch base with it. She gently justifies this while showing a pokey sense of humor by claiming “There are moments when the record’s twang can feel a little over-cooked (The Decembrists have never been great at spontaneity, exactly), but there’s an interesting tension between the inherent unpretentiousness of country music—it’s rural, it’s populists, it’s based on universal emotions—and the Decembrists’ literary cartwheeling.” She captures the album as a whole and lightly brush strokes the area that brought them down to a 7 out of ten grade.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15000-the-king-is-dead/

Charles P. on Broadway Bar

            This is more of a slightly racist anecdote rather than a review. He tells a mildly humorous story about how someone was rude to him and didn’t go to the bathroom properly. He judged the place on the wrong criteria, how the customers behaved. Had the reviewer spent more time on how the staff perhaps didn’t react to these rude incidences or perhaps even mentioned the food or service just once then there might be more justification for a two star review. The fact that this guy focuses so much on the race of the other customers is puzzling and seems like a part of the motive for such a low rating.

http://fuckyouyelper.tumblr.com/post/8955745906/the-crowd-okay-i-guess-mostly-asians-and