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Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics for a Startup
- GabrielF00 12y ago> “Their plan was just” — he used an expletive perhaps appropriate for his new role at the iconoclastic start-up — “really impressive.” Gotta love The New York Times. It takes them fourteen words to avoid printing the word "fucking". And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper. One is reminded of Family Guy's take on The New Yorker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6MyeCXmiKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6MyeCXmiKw
- k-mcgrady 12y ago>> "And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper." I don't think it's a reference to startups in general but to this particular startup.
- cbd1984 12y agoHeaven forfend adults should use adult language.
- Apocryphon 12y agoOn the other hand, are vulgarities truly "adult"?
- zem 12y agoinsofar as we seem to have a dogmatic insistence that children not use them
- scott_s 12y agoI think that's less an avoidance of printing the work "fucking", and more a concerted effort to use the word "iconoclastic".
- Ollinson 12y agoThe New Yorker doesn't shy away from profanity. If you search the magazine archives you'll find many instances of fuck, bitch, asshole, etc. A simple google search also shows this to be true (fuck site:newyorker.com).
- matt_morgan 12y agoWe still call Genius a "startup"? Founded 2009.
- kissickas 12y agoEven if we can, HN users are likely familiar with Genius. Should we really stick to the original headline so closely in cases like this when the title editorializes more than the clearer alternative "... for Genius"?
- k-mcgrady 12y ago>> "HN users are likely familiar with Genius" They were on HN A LOT a while back because of all the controversy around them.
- jgalt212 12y agoThis reminds of when (then widely respected) Lou Dobbs left CNN to head up space.com No bubble here, though.
- tomconroy 12y agoCoincidentally, genius.com uses a font (Whitney) that his brother designed.
- grandalf 12y agoThis is pretty huge. Makes me want to work there.
- busterarm 12y agoTheir new Director of Operations is absolutely the nicest person and best manager I've ever worked for in my life. It's time to start taking this company seriously.
- ehmorris 12y agodon't forget to check out the annotated version ;) http://genius.com/www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/business/media/pop-music-critic-leaves-the-new-yorker-to-annotate-lyrics-for-a-start-up.html http://genius.com/www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/business/media/...