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Coolfer has a great list of overused words/phrases/cliches in music reviews, such as "ethereal," "fully realized," and "new yet familiar." As terrible as it is to resorting to those words in any sort of review or article (and we're guilty of it), Gothamist is all for it, as long as people get to make fun fo those conventions.
Another great stab at dissecting entertainment articles: Fametracker's Mediator on a Vanity Fair feature on Colin Farrell.
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Let's NOT forget "juxtapose"... ugh. To me this is about as bad as saying "the music features SOUND!"
Crap. I left out juxtapose. That's a top tenner.
a few things about that post:
that colin farrell article is really good. there is a quote about him in ireland. "he is the first irish person to go to america with a castelknock accent, and to come back with an inner city dublin accent".
even though the two areas are only a few miles from each other in dublin, the accents are quite different. he reminds me of some of my irish friends in dublin who are from that part of dublin, but when drunk somehow have an accent transformed into something more "edgier". anyway, let colin have his fun. (im 26, irish, no kids, no money and i am jealous)
and also, about "overused words/phrases/cliches in music reviews", i go through quite a lot of sigur rós concert reviews for a website, and i have sometimes been battered over the head by incredibly annoying phrases used in reviews. the band (being icelandic and having a slightly "etheral") are described as "angelic" "glacial" and a million other overused words. damn them.
dw
all that's fine and good, but the most overrused word in music reviews is that god-awful 'seminal'.
where would colin's mirror image be from here in the states:
upper-west side?
long island?
new jersey?
suburbs of chicago?
berkley?
and would he fake a brooklyn or queens accent?
would he drink pabst in williamsburg or brooklyn lager in fort greene?
there are a lot of colin farrell's here, think of some names...
I'm incensed that *incendiary* did not make the list, surely it's one of the worst.