Pitchfork3 days agoAbout That Rod Wave Song at the End of Sinners…Pitchfork - Alphonse PierreHere is the list of topics you expect from Rod Wave: heartbreak, trust issues, loneliness, getting really rich is not all that it’s cracked up to be. Here is the list of topics you don’t expect from Rod Wave: slavery. Last weekend, at the theater to catch Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s new Jim Crow–era …
Pitchfork5 days agoHow Friday Night Funkin’ Became the Most Influential Music Game of the 2020sPitchfork - Kieran Press-ReynoldsThe premise is simple: Playing a cool kid named Boyfriend, you’re desperately trying to take your Girlfriend on a date. But her demonic parents won’t give their darling to any schmuck, so you must fight them and their henchmen in vicious rap battles to win their approval. It’s played like a rhythm …
Pitchfork6 days agoSinners Review: Finally, A Transcendental Southern Gothic Vampire Musical BlockbusterPitchfork - Paul A. ThompsonThere’s a sequence early in Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s sneakily meditative new vampire movie, where Smoke, the more level-headed of two twins played by Michael B. Jordan, reunites with the girlfriend he had left behind in Mississippi. Before he walks into the small house where Annie (the exceptional …
PitchforkLet Me Show You How to Bip: Tracing the Origins of Hip-Hop’s Favorite New WordPitchfork - Lawrence BurneyHip-hop is the ultimate loudspeaker for the inventive language being generated on back blocks, basement parties, and school cafeterias in various corners of Black America. Phrases and terms that, at one point, held significance to a handful of folks in small, local ecosystems, if uttered by the …
PitchforkWarfare Review: Bad MemoriesPitchfork - Paul A. ThompsonFew real-world events have served as more durable prisms for American art than the Vietnam War. The conflict itself, the protest movement that opposed it, and the disillusionment its participants felt in its wake were all central to the New Hollywood, in brutal parables like Elia Kazan’s The …
PitchforkOn Drake’s Gambling Streams, Everybody LosesPitchfork - Kieran Press-ReynoldsStreamer Adin Ross clutches Drake’s shoulder in giddy anguish. They’ve just lost $100,000 on Nine to Five, an online slot machine themed after office workers trapped in the rat race, with little cartoon icons of men with glasses and grime-stained typewriters. And they’re about to do it again …
