Jack Hamilton
@jackhamilton
Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia and pop critic for Slate magazine. Author of JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT: ROCK AND ROLL AND THE RACIAL IMAGINATION
obama's music lists are always so bizarre and all over the place that I often think they are actually real? as opposed to his book lists which are clearly put together by some comms person while barack listens to the latest hoop collective
there are actually a lot of notable exceptions!!! so many that I would argue that the first part of this sentence is simply wrong
phenomenal nile rodgers interview here, so much going on in this paragraph www.vulture.com/article/nile...
shouldn't expect more from someone still obsessed with "cancel culture" in 2026 but this is just staggeringly ill-informed. wilson was absolutely exceptionally racist by the standards of his day, it's all over the historical record. even many of his present-day defenders concede this! read a book
the dano thing was weird and stupid but suggesting that Tarantino doesn't watch non-Anglophone movies is one of the more insane things i've ever read
oh okay i'm just supposed to trust the guy who got fired from g'n'r
the rotten tomatoes ranking of every best picture winner by tomatometer score is so funny
my man... bob dylan is probably the most influential writer of songs of this exact type in human history
funny imagining someone clicking on this headline like "oh wow I wonder what song it is"
[this guy, disapprovingly shaking his head while listening to “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)”] such a missed opportunity
i think we've officially reached a point where the significance of disco demolition night in music history has become wildly overstated. also people really need to stop conflating disco w/ all Black music made in the late 1970s. you know who else did that? a lot of the people at DDN
the second season of THE BEAR was wildly flawed and seeing it celebrated like this on best-tv-of-the-year lists makes me think tv criticism has a rockism problem