Black Kids respond to Pitchfork review (Video)

Unless you were living under a rock (or don’t read record reviews) and didn’t see it, you probably have an opinion about Pitchfork’s review of Black Kids’ Partie Traumatic. Well, so does Black Kids frontman Reggie Youngblood, who responded to the review in an interview with MTV.


Youngblood claims he prefers Pitchfork’s review (a picture of two pugs saying “Sorry” and a paltry 3.3) 10 times out of ten instead of a review that just says, “Uh, it’s okay.” He acts like he generally doesn’t care (he says he knew a bad review was coming) but at the beginning he says (kind of jokingly, kind of not-- he looks kind of sad) he thought the picture would lead to a 10.
Either way, hopefully the debate over the merits of the review will be behind us.
[MTV via Stereogum]

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7 Responses

July 25, 2008 at 1:46 p.m.

um, i agreed with the 3.3. but i take that back and deduct 2 more for being on mtv and another .7 for not knowing how to hold or talk into a mic. that leaves them with a 0.6.

July 25, 2008 at 1:50 p.m.

Is all press good press? I think he comes off pretty well in this interview.

July 25, 2008 at 7:06 p.m.

Can the reviewer and the reviewee both suck? Pitchfork are a bunch of pretentious cynics who are likely paid by the 'difficulty level' of words used in their reviews. Black Kids are fine, okay, half-baked and nothing more. If Pitchfork wants to blow a group up they have every right, but by all means, give us some verbage as to why you're tearing them down.

July 25, 2008 at 7:59 p.m.

Initially, the review was 0.0 and they later changed it to 3.3. I wonder if he would feel the same way if it was left with its original score.

July 27, 2008 at 11:49 a.m.

I can understand that he'd rather be trashed or praised than get a "middling" review, but to say "I think it's the most awesome review for a record I've seen in my whole life" makes him sound like a sucker.

July 27, 2008 at 11:53 a.m.

agreed b wall.

August 12, 2008 at 3:10 a.m.

Who names a band "Black Kids"? That's just f*cking retarded.

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