{"id":53,"date":"2004-06-01T17:45:30","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T00:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/wp-acr\/?p=53"},"modified":"2004-06-01T17:47:49","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T00:47:49","slug":"ben-folds-sunny-16-ep-speed-graphic-ep-pitchfork-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Ben Folds: Sunny 16 EP \/ Speed Graphic EP: Pitchfork Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a reason why critics make a living (is it a good living? I don’t know …) and Rob Mitchum’s take on Ben Fold’s latest work<\/a> is a fine example of it.
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\nI am a Ben Folds devotee. Can lip-synch to most of his songs, love the smarty-pants remarks delivered with dilettante scorn, and was just googling around for references to Ben’s latest attempts to bypass the music industry machine by releasing his work via iTunes.<\/p>\n

Well, I came across this article which wasn’t at all about the topic I had in mind, but demonstrated that reading well-informed, articulate reviews has a place in our (weekly?) routines.<\/p>\n

It tears my musical god’s work to pieces, putting a clearly negative view out there, which I care not -and could not- disagree with. All of a sudden, I realize that an artist’s evolution is a delicate metamorphosis which sometimes never quite turns into the butterfly we want it to, since the potential is at times a better dream to hold on to.<\/p>\n

I still love Ben’s music, but being critical never stopped anybody from true love, did it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a reason why critics make a living (is it a good living? I don’t know …) and Rob Mitchum’s take on Ben Fold’s latest work is a fine example of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ncoG-R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}