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* CanadaEh: Mark grew up in Winnipeg and currently lives in UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}.
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** He delivers a particularly serious one on the March 16, 2024 episode of ''Billboard Breakdown'', when Music/KanyeWest and Ty Dolla $ign hit #1 with "Carnival", even with his best attempts to avoid covering the album and its songs, calling out the song's rampant misogyny and how it represents powerful men excusing each other for their crimes:
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** He delivers a particularly serious one on the March 16, 2021 episode of ''Billboard Breakdown'', when Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign hit #1 with "Carnival", calling out the song's rampant misogyny and how it represents powerful men excusing each other for their crimes:
-->And with this many people behind it, those who are saying they're only here ironically for the jokes or because 'the beat and the hook go hard' or 'I'm just here for Carti'... y'all aren't getting away that easy from all of this. You have Rich The Kid saying he 'pull up in the trenches like Columbine' - that's right, one of the least interesting mainstream rappers of the mid-2010s who drops a forgettable verse here comparing himself to a school shooter, and he's not as dubiously good as when Lil Yachty did it on 'Broccoli' in 2016 - Ty Dolla $ign going through the motions but with a line about how girls want to fuck his car, and Playboi Carti... honestly has nowhere close to the energy he needs to sell this bland flexing buried midway back where he compares his swag to a disease... I unironically agree with that, Iggy Azalea's baby daddy and notable abuser made one point. But alongside those and this oily, clunky mix leaning hard on its choir to masquerade as a jock jam, alongside sampling the 'Hell of a Life' riff because Kanye is nothing without tainting his legacy, he compares himself to R. Kelly and Bill Cosby who were 'cancelled' like him - he really wants you to ignore the context of the well-documented sex crimes, including towards minors, how in the former case it was targeted at Aaliyah and often wrapped in gospel iconography, in the latter in respectability politics and conservatism - but also being so rich he's like Puff Daddy and can pay off the #metoo accusations... and spoilers, I don't think Diddy's getting out of his either. But by the final lines, he says he's doing it for Chris Brown, and references the fact his kids are in a fake school - probably smart you cut yourself off there given all the allegations around Donda Academy - and it snaps into place: we have documented photographic evidence of when Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna, and how his career just kept on going - he's literally charting a new single now - this is about the freedom of powerful men to cast doubt on abuse allegations, avoid accountability, their victims be silenced, and then be praised endlessly for it. That is in the text of the song, and they sure as shit aren't beating the fash allegations now because this is at the roots of how they treat women, and when I look at the audience that unironically endorses this for being a banger and gets big mad whenever I bring up the rest... you're telling on yourselves, and I do know some of you teenage white boys will grow out of this; I was alive for the late 90s, I remember the shock rap of that era, I know some of this is built for pure provocation, just entertainment - a carnival, child's play even. But this is quite literally the definition of adolescent toxic machismo built for the gang rapes of Woodstock 99, insecure grasping at power from weak little men for the perpetually unfuckable wanting to live a fantasy, and the fact that it did go to #1 shows that a certain insufferably loud and privileged demographic has enough obsessive power to push it there regardless of what is being said, just like they did twenty five years ago, in the tradition of this proudly ignorant, reflexively conservative horseshit never going away.
-->And with this many people behind it, those who are saying they're only here ironically for the jokes or because 'the beat and the hook go hard' or 'I'm just here for Carti'... y'all aren't getting away that easy from all of this. You have Rich The Kid saying he 'pull up in the trenches like Columbine' - that's right, one of the least interesting mainstream rappers of the mid-2010s who drops a forgettable verse here comparing himself to a school shooter, and he's not as dubiously good as when Lil Yachty did it on 'Broccoli' in 2016 - Ty Dolla $ign going through the motions but with a line about how girls want to fuck his car, and Playboi Carti... honestly has nowhere close to the energy he needs to sell this bland flexing buried midway back where he compares his swag to a disease... I unironically agree with that, Iggy Azalea's baby daddy and notable abuser made one point. But alongside those and this oily, clunky mix leaning hard on its choir to masquerade as a jock jam, alongside sampling the 'Hell of a Life' riff because Kanye is nothing without tainting his legacy, he compares himself to R. Kelly and Bill Cosby who were 'cancelled' like him - he really wants you to ignore the context of the well-documented sex crimes, including towards minors, how in the former case it was targeted at Aaliyah and often wrapped in gospel iconography, in the latter in respectability politics and conservatism - but also being so rich he's like Puff Daddy and can pay off the #metoo accusations... and spoilers, I don't think Diddy's getting out of his either. But by the final lines, he says he's doing it for Chris Brown, and references the fact his kids are in a fake school - probably smart you cut yourself off there given all the allegations around Donda Academy - and it snaps into place: we have documented photographic evidence of when Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna, and how his career just kept on going - he's literally charting a new single now - this is about the freedom of powerful men to cast doubt on abuse allegations, avoid accountability, their victims be silenced, and then be praised endlessly for it. That is in the text of the song, and they sure as shit aren't beating the fash allegations now because this is at the roots of how they treat women, and when I look at the audience that unironically endorses this for being a banger and gets big mad whenever I bring up the rest... you're telling on yourselves, and I do know some of you teenage white boys will grow out of this; I was alive for the late 90s, I remember the shock rap of that era, I know some of this is built for pure provocation, just entertainment - a carnival, child's play even. But this is quite literally the definition of adolescent toxic machismo built for the gang rapes of Woodstock 99, insecure grasping at power from weak little men for the perpetually unfuckable wanting to live a fantasy, and the fact that it did go to #1 shows that a certain insufferably loud and privileged demographic has enough obsessive power to push it there regardless of what is being said, just like they did twenty five years ago, in the tradition of this proudly ignorant, reflexively conservative horseshit never going away.
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** He delivers a particularly serious one on the March 16, 2021 2024 episode of ''Billboard Breakdown'', when Kanye West Music/KanyeWest and Ty Dolla $ign hit #1 with "Carnival", even with his best attempts to avoid covering the album and its songs, calling out the song's rampant misogyny and how it represents powerful men excusing each other for their crimes:
-->And with this many people behind it, those who are saying they're only here ironically for the jokes or because'the "the beat and the hook go hard' hard" or 'I'm "I'm just here for Carti'...Carti"... y'all aren't getting away that easy from all of this. You have Rich The the Kid saying he 'pull "pull up in the trenches like Columbine' Columbine" - that's right, one of the least interesting mainstream rappers of the mid-2010s who drops a forgettable verse here comparing himself to a school shooter, and he's not as dubiously good as when Lil Yachty Music/LilYachty did it on 'Broccoli' "Broccoli" in 2016 - Ty Dolla $ign going through the motions but with a line about how girls want to fuck his car, and Playboi Carti...Music/PlayboiCarti... honestly has nowhere close to the energy he needs to sell this bland flexing buried midway back where he compares his swag to a disease... I unironically agree with that, Iggy Azalea's Music/IggyAzalea's baby daddy and notable abuser made one point. But alongside those and this oily, clunky mix leaning hard on its choir to masquerade as a jock jam, alongside sampling [[Music/BlackSabbath the 'Hell "Hell of a Life' riff Life" riff]] because Kanye is nothing without tainting his legacy, he compares himself to R. Kelly Music/RKelly and Bill Cosby Creator/BillCosby who were 'cancelled' "cancelled" like him - he really wants you to ignore the context of the well-documented sex crimes, including towards minors, how in the former case it was targeted at Aaliyah Music/{{Aaliyah}} and often wrapped in gospel iconography, in the latter in respectability politics and conservatism - but also being so rich he's like [[Music/SeanCombs Puff Daddy Daddy]] and can pay off the #metoo #[=MeToo=] accusations... and spoilers, I don't think Diddy's getting out of his either. But by the final lines, he says he's doing it for Chris Brown, Music/ChrisBrown, and references the fact his kids are in a fake school - probably smart you cut yourself off there given all the allegations around Donda Academy - and it snaps into place: we have documented photographic evidence of when Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna, Music/{{Rihanna}}, and how his career just kept on going - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensational_(song) he's literally charting a new single now now]] - this is about the freedom of powerful men to cast doubt on abuse allegations, avoid accountability, their victims be silenced, and then be praised endlessly for it. That is in the text of the song, and they sure as shit aren't beating the fash allegations now because this is at the roots of how they treat women, and when I look at the audience that unironically endorses this for being a banger and gets big mad whenever I bring up the rest... you're telling on yourselves, and I do know some of you teenage white boys will grow out of this; I was alive for the late 90s, I remember the shock rap of that era, I know some of this is built for pure provocation, just entertainment - a carnival, child's play even. But this is quite literally the definition of adolescent toxic machismo built for the gang rapes of Woodstock 99, insecure grasping at power from weak little men for the perpetually unfuckable wanting to live a fantasy, and the fact that it did go to #1 shows that a certain insufferably loud and privileged demographic has enough obsessive power to push it there regardless of what is being said, just like they did twenty five years ago, in the tradition of this proudly ignorant, reflexively conservative horseshit never ''never going away.away''.
-->And with this many people behind it, those who are saying they're only here ironically for the jokes or because
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-->And with this many people behind it, those who are saying they're only here ironically for the jokes or because 'the beat and the hook go hard' or 'I'm just here for Carti'... y'all aren't getting away that easy from all of this. You have Rich The Kid saying he 'pull up in the trenches like Columbine' - that's right, one of the least interesting mainstream rappers of the mid-2010s who drops a forgettable verse here comparing himself to a school shooter, and he's not as dubiously good as when Lil Yachty did it on 'Broccoli' in 2016 - Ty Dolla $ign going through the motions but with a line about how girls want to fuck his car, and Playboi Carti... honestly has nowhere close to the energy he needs to sell this bland flexing buried midway back where he compares his swag to a disease... I unironically agree with that, Iggy Azalea's baby daddy and notable abuser made one point. But alongside those and this oily, clunky mix leaning hard on its choir to masquerade as a jock jam, alongside sampling the 'Hell of a Life' riff because Kanye is nothing without tainting his legacy, he compares himself to R. Kelly and Bill Cosby who were 'cancelled' like him - he really wants you to ignore the context of the well-documented sex crimes, including towards minors, how in the former case it was targeted at Aaliyah and often wrapped in gospel iconography, in the latter in respectability politics and conservatism - but also being so rich he's like Puff Daddy and can pay off the #metoo accusations... and spoilers, I don't think Diddy's getting out of his either. But by the final lines, he says he's doing it for Chris Brown, and references the fact his kids are in a fake school - probably smart you cut yourself off there given all the allegations around Donda Academy - and it snaps into place: we have documented photographic evidence of when Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna, and how his career just kept on going - he's literally charting a new single now - this is about the freedom of powerful men to cast doubt on abuse allegations, avoid accountability, their victims be silenced, and then be praised endlessly for it. That is in the text of the song, and they sure as shit aren't beating the fash allegations now because this is at the roots of how they treat women, and when I look at the audience that unironically endorses this for being a banger and gets big mad whenever I bring up the rest... you're telling on yourselves, and I do know some of you teenage white boys will grow out of this; I was alive for the late 90s, I remember the shock rap of that era, I know some of this is built for pure provocation, just entertainment - a carnival, child's play even. But this is quite literally the definition of adolescent toxic machismo built for the gang rapes of Woodstock 99, insecure grasping at power from weak little men for the perpetually unfuckable wanting to live a fantasy, and the fact that it did go to #1 shows that a certain insufferably loud and privileged demographic has enough obsessive power to push it there regardless of what is being said, just like they did twenty five years ago, in the tradition of this proudly ignorant, reflexively conservative horseshit never going away.
-->And with this many people behind it, those who are saying they're only here ironically for the jokes or because 'the beat and the hook go hard' or 'I'm just here for Carti'... y'all aren't getting away that easy from all of this. You have Rich The Kid saying he 'pull up in the trenches like Columbine' - that's right, one of the least interesting mainstream rappers of the mid-2010s who drops a forgettable verse here comparing himself to a school shooter, and he's not as dubiously good as when Lil Yachty did it on 'Broccoli' in 2016 - Ty Dolla $ign going through the motions but with a line about how girls want to fuck his car, and Playboi Carti... honestly has nowhere close to the energy he needs to sell this bland flexing buried midway back where he compares his swag to a disease... I unironically agree with that, Iggy Azalea's baby daddy and notable abuser made one point. But alongside those and this oily, clunky mix leaning hard on its choir to masquerade as a jock jam, alongside sampling the 'Hell of a Life' riff because Kanye is nothing without tainting his legacy, he compares himself to R. Kelly and Bill Cosby who were 'cancelled' like him - he really wants you to ignore the context of the well-documented sex crimes, including towards minors, how in the former case it was targeted at Aaliyah and often wrapped in gospel iconography, in the latter in respectability politics and conservatism - but also being so rich he's like Puff Daddy and can pay off the #metoo accusations... and spoilers, I don't think Diddy's getting out of his either. But by the final lines, he says he's doing it for Chris Brown, and references the fact his kids are in a fake school - probably smart you cut yourself off there given all the allegations around Donda Academy - and it snaps into place: we have documented photographic evidence of when Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna, and how his career just kept on going - he's literally charting a new single now - this is about the freedom of powerful men to cast doubt on abuse allegations, avoid accountability, their victims be silenced, and then be praised endlessly for it. That is in the text of the song, and they sure as shit aren't beating the fash allegations now because this is at the roots of how they treat women, and when I look at the audience that unironically endorses this for being a banger and gets big mad whenever I bring up the rest... you're telling on yourselves, and I do know some of you teenage white boys will grow out of this; I was alive for the late 90s, I remember the shock rap of that era, I know some of this is built for pure provocation, just entertainment - a carnival, child's play even. But this is quite literally the definition of adolescent toxic machismo built for the gang rapes of Woodstock 99, insecure grasping at power from weak little men for the perpetually unfuckable wanting to live a fantasy, and the fact that it did go to #1 shows that a certain insufferably loud and privileged demographic has enough obsessive power to push it there regardless of what is being said, just like they did twenty five years ago, in the tradition of this proudly ignorant, reflexively conservative horseshit never going away.
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** He's mentioned multiple times that he never had an "angry white boy" phase, usually when he's about to discuss nu-metal type acts such as Music/AvengedSevenfold or Music/LinkinPark. Or political acts like Aaron Lewis' "Am I The Only One" in 2021.
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His main [=YouTube=] channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SilensCursor here]], his ''Billboard Breakdown'' channel is [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCye6i2E-5zmXWDI32APXpIA here]], his Twitter is [[http://www.twitter.com/SpectrumPulse here]], his Patreon is [[https://www.patreon.com/SpectrumPulse here]], and transcripts of his videos can be found on his blog [[http://www.spectrum-pulse.ca here]].
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His main [=YouTube=] channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SilensCursor here]], his ''Billboard Breakdown'' channel is [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCye6i2E-5zmXWDI32APXpIA here]], his Twitter is [[http://www.twitter.com/SpectrumPulse here]], his Patreon is [[https://www.patreon.com/SpectrumPulse here]], and transcripts of his videos can be found on his blog [[http://www.[[https://www.spectrum-pulse.ca here]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse. [[http://www.spectrum-pulse.ca/2017/11/album-review-reputation-by-taylor-swift.html?m=1 His review]] of Music/TaylorSwift's ''reputation'' remarks that the shift from country to pop since ''Red'' and ''1989'' has caused Swift to lose control of her artistic image and while trying to be a role model without establishing clearly a core set of ideas, "at best she became representative of a [[DramaQueen catty]], [[CantTakeCriticism thin-skinned]] ControlFreak of an artist, or at worst like [[PlayingTheVictimCard the projection of white female victimhood]], or [[MistakenForRacist a projection of far-right leaning authoritarianism]]".
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse. [[http://www.[[https://www.spectrum-pulse.ca/2017/11/album-review-reputation-by-taylor-swift.ca/blog//2017/11/album-review-reputation-by-taylor-swift.html?m=1 His review]] of Music/TaylorSwift's ''reputation'' remarks that the shift from country to pop since ''Red'' and ''1989'' has caused Swift to lose control of her artistic image and while trying to be a role model without establishing clearly a core set of ideas, "at best she became representative of a [[DramaQueen catty]], [[CantTakeCriticism thin-skinned]] ControlFreak of an artist, or at worst like [[PlayingTheVictimCard the projection of white female victimhood]], or [[MistakenForRacist a projection of far-right leaning authoritarianism]]".
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** From the pre-[=YouTube=] days, he delivered one at the end of his [[http://www.spectrum-pulse.ca/2013/04/album-review-willpower-by-william.html written review]] of ''#willpower'':
-->And the worst part, will.i.am, is that you're better than this. That's probably the most infuriating thing about ''#willpower'', in that there are tiny shreds of a good idea here. There are snippets that have real beauty and real potential, and you clearly have the money and industry clout to make the album you want - and you made this trash. It is bar none the worst album you've ever made, and I sincerely hope that if you consider this the height of your talents, that this album flops and your long-overdue fifteen minutes comes to a screeching end.
-->And the worst part, will.i.am, is that you're better than this. That's probably the most infuriating thing about ''#willpower'', in that there are tiny shreds of a good idea here. There are snippets that have real beauty and real potential, and you clearly have the money and industry clout to make the album you want - and you made this trash. It is bar none the worst album you've ever made, and I sincerely hope that if you consider this the height of your talents, that this album flops and your long-overdue fifteen minutes comes to a screeching end.
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** From the pre-[=YouTube=] days, he delivered one at the end of his [[http://www.[[https://www.spectrum-pulse.ca/2013/04/album-review-willpower-by-william.ca/blog//2013/04/album-review-willpower-by-william.html written review]] of ''#willpower'':
-->And the worst part,will.i.am, Music/WillIAm, is that you're better than this. That's probably the most infuriating thing about ''#willpower'', in that there are tiny shreds of a good idea here. There are snippets that have real beauty and real potential, and you clearly have the money and industry clout to make the album you want - and you made this trash. It is bar none the worst album you've ever made, and I sincerely hope that if you consider this the height of your talents, that this album flops and your long-overdue fifteen minutes comes to a screeching end.
-->And the worst part,
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** On Twitter in October 2023, [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1712488008304226709 he announced]] he will [[https://www.twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1735386841954627815 not cover]] any new Music/KanyeWest albums because of his repulsion towards those who believe that because of new music coming out, all of West's past and present behavior, especially his antisemitism, should be swept under the rug.
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** On Twitter in October 2023, [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1712488008304226709 he announced]] he will [[https://www.twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1735386841954627815 not cover]] any new Music/KanyeWest albums because of his repulsion towards those who believe that because of new music coming out, all of West's past and present behavior, especially his antisemitism, should be swept under the rug. He later clarified this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiIpHsZnznw this YouTube short]].
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** Early Music/PostMalone, so much so when he covered him in an episode of Billboard Breakdown, he put up a ''[[ContentWarnings trigger warning]]''. However, according to him, Post has improved as an artist and Mark now just considers him average.
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** Early Music/PostMalone, so much so when he covered him in an episode of Billboard Breakdown, he put up a ''[[ContentWarnings trigger warning]]''. However, according to him, Post has improved as an artist and Mark now just considers him average.average, and has even placed songs by him on multiple Best Hit Songs lists.
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* GrayingMorality: He notice Music/TaylorSwift musical arc starting (and his opinion failing) since ''reputation'', having shaky improvement on ''Music/{{Lover}}'', become very good on ''[[Music/Folklore2020 folklore]]'' and ''[[Music/Evermore2020 evermore]]'' and finally culminate to, in his opinion, her best album (or even best) since ''Music/SpeakNow'' - ''Music/{{Midnights}}''
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* GrayingMorality: He notice Music/TaylorSwift His views on Music/TaylorSwift's musical arc starting (and his opinion failing) since ''reputation'', having shaky improvement on ''Music/{{Lover}}'', become becomeing very good on ''[[Music/Folklore2020 folklore]]'' and ''[[Music/Evermore2020 evermore]]'' and finally culminate culminateing to, in his opinion, her best album (or even best) since ''Music/SpeakNow'' - ''Music/{{Midnights}}''
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** On Twitter in October 2023, [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1712488008304226709 he announced]] he will not cover any new Music/KanyeWest albums because of his repulsion towards those who believe that because of new music coming out, all of West's past and present behavior, especially his antisemitism, should be swept under the rug.
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** On Twitter in October 2023, [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1712488008304226709 he announced]] he will [[https://www.twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1735386841954627815 not cover cover]] any new Music/KanyeWest albums because of his repulsion towards those who believe that because of new music coming out, all of West's past and present behavior, especially his antisemitism, should be swept under the rug.
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** Mark himself appears in Part 2 of WebVideo/TheDoubleAgent's ''Worst Hit Songs of 2009'' video as well as the ''[[Music/{{Creed}} Weathered]]'', ''[[Music/LinkinPark A Thousand Suns]]'', ''[[Music/SimplePlan Still Not Getting Any...]]'', ''[[Music/TheoryOfADeadman Scars and Souvenirs]]'' and ''Music/{{Trapt}}'' episodes of ''[[WebVideo/{{Rocked}} Regretting the Past]]''.
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** Mark himself appears in Part 2 of WebVideo/TheDoubleAgent's ''Worst Hit Songs of 2009'' video as well as the ''[[Music/{{Creed}} ''[[Music/CreedBand Weathered]]'', ''[[Music/LinkinPark A Thousand Suns]]'', ''[[Music/SimplePlan Still Not Getting Any...]]'', ''[[Music/TheoryOfADeadman Scars and Souvenirs]]'' and ''Music/{{Trapt}}'' episodes of ''[[WebVideo/{{Rocked}} Regretting the Past]]''.
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** On Twitter in October 2023, [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1712488008304226709 he announced]] he will not cover any new Music/KanyeWest albums because of his repulsion towards those who believe that because of the music being good, all of West's past and present behavior, especially his antisemitism, should be swept under the rug.
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** On Twitter in October 2023, [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1712488008304226709 he announced]] he will not cover any new Music/KanyeWest albums because of his repulsion towards those who believe that because of the new music being good, coming out, all of West's past and present behavior, especially his antisemitism, should be swept under the rug.
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** On Twitter in October 2023, [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1712488008304226709 he announced]] he will not cover any new Music/KanyeWest albums because of his repulsion towards those who believe that because of the music that being good, all of West's past and present behavior behavior, especially his antisemitism, should be swept under the rug.
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* PersonaNonGrata: After learning about the controversy regarding Music/{{Sia}}'s film ''Music'', Mark [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1353037873159745537 tweeted]] that he will no longer cover anything related to her music on the channel again, due to being utterly disgusted with what he learned. He reclarified this when covering "Unstoppable" on ''Billboard Breakdown'' in 2022, deciding to play clips of his old ''This is Acting'' review rather than write and record a new review.
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** After learning about the controversy regarding Music/{{Sia}}'s film ''Music'', Mark [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1353037873159745537 tweeted]] that he will no longer cover anything related to her music on the channel again, due to being utterly disgusted with what he learned. He reclarified this when covering "Unstoppable" on ''Billboard Breakdown'' in 2022, deciding to play clips of his old ''This is Acting'' review rather than write and record a new review.
** On Twitter in October 2023, [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1712488008304226709 he announced]] he will not cover any new Music/KanyeWest albums because of his repulsion towards those who believe because of the music that all of West's past and present behavior should be swept under the rug.
** After learning about the controversy regarding Music/{{Sia}}'s film ''Music'', Mark [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1353037873159745537 tweeted]] that he will no longer cover anything related to her music on the channel again, due to being utterly disgusted with what he learned. He reclarified this when covering "Unstoppable" on ''Billboard Breakdown'' in 2022, deciding to play clips of his old ''This is Acting'' review rather than write and record a new review.
** On Twitter in October 2023, [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1712488008304226709 he announced]] he will not cover any new Music/KanyeWest albums because of his repulsion towards those who believe because of the music that all of West's past and present behavior should be swept under the rug.
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*** This is even further exaggerated by his 2023 review of "Weathervanes" by [[Music/JasonIsbell Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit]], [[spoiler:an album he liked so much that he rated a 10/10 anyway despite getting rid of scores.]]
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*** This is even further exaggerated by his 2023 review of "Weathervanes" ''Weathervanes'' by [[Music/JasonIsbell Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit]], [[spoiler:an album he liked so much that he rated a 10/10 anyway despite getting rid of scores.]]
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*** This is even further exaggerated by his 2023 review of "Weathervanes" by Music/JasonIsbell [[Music/JasonIsbell Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Unit]], [[spoiler:an album he liked so much that he rated a 10/10 anyway despite getting rid of scores.]]
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* AuthorTract: [[invoked]] His "three Ps" for good political art are power, populism, and precision (or nuance), and he finds that, when a work lacks one or especially two of these qualities, it can descend into a bad case of this. He found Music/{{Megadeth}}'s ''Dystopia'' and ANOHNI's ''Hopelessness'' to have only power going for them, leading both to take broad, hateful swipes at large swaths of people, while Justin Moore's ''Off the Beaten Path'' had only populism, causing it to feel like insincere {{pandering|ToTheBase}}. By contrast, he cited White Lung's ''Paradise'', with its {{deconstruction}} of RiotGrrrl tropes and how women mistreat each other, as an album that hit all three Ps and escaped this.
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* AuthorTract: [[invoked]] His "three Ps" for good political art are power, populism, and precision (or nuance), and he finds that, when a work lacks one or especially two of these qualities, it can descend into a bad case of this. He found Music/{{Megadeth}}'s ''Dystopia'' and ANOHNI's ''Hopelessness'' to have only power going for them, leading both to take broad, hateful swipes at large swaths of people, while Justin Moore's Music/JustinMoore's ''Off the Beaten Path'' had only populism, causing it to feel like insincere {{pandering|ToTheBase}}. By contrast, he cited White Lung's ''Paradise'', with its {{deconstruction}} of RiotGrrrl tropes and how women mistreat each other, as an album that hit all three Ps and escaped this.
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* TotallyRadical: * Mark got the definition of "yiff" hilariously wrong when talked about the song "What Does The Fox Say?" by Music/{{Ylvis}}, stating that the furries had answered that question: The fox "yiffs". While in the fandom foxes are stereotypically known for yiffing, [[TheInternetIsForPorn "yiff" is furry jargon for having sex.]]
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* TotallyRadical: * Mark got the definition of "yiff" hilariously wrong when he talked about the song "What Does The Fox Say?" by Music/{{Ylvis}}, stating that the furries had answered that question: The fox "yiffs". While in the fandom foxes are stereotypically known for yiffing, [[TheInternetIsForPorn "yiff" is furry jargon for having sex.]]
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure[=/=]TotallyRadical: * Mark got the definition of "yiff" hilariously wrong when talked about the song "What Does The Fox Say?" by Music/{{Ylvis}}, stating that the furries had answered that question: The fox "yiffs". While in the fandom foxes are stereotypically known for yiffing, [[TheInternetIsForPorn "yiff" is furry jargon for having sex.]]
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure[=/=]TotallyRadical: * Mark got the definition of "yiff" hilariously wrong when talked about the song "What Does The Fox Say?" by Music/{{Ylvis}}, stating that the furries had answered that question: The fox "yiffs". While in the fandom foxes are stereotypically known for yiffing, [[TheInternetIsForPorn "yiff" is furry jargon for having sex.]]
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*** This is even further exaggerated by his review of 'Weathervanes' by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit in 2023, [[spoiler:an album he liked so much that he rated a 10/10 anyway despite getting rid of scores.]]
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** Misogyny, both lyrically and in general, is a pretty big one as Mark considers himself a sex-positive feminist.
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* RapIsCrap: He thought that the video for Music/FallOutBoy's "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'em Up)" treaded too close to this territory for comfort by casting the Black rapper Music/TwoChainz as the guy who burns the band's merchandise and instruments, Given the historic rivalry between fans of {{Rock}} and HipHop and a lot of the racism that went with it.
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* RapIsCrap: He thought that the video for Music/FallOutBoy's "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'em Up)" treaded too close to this territory for comfort by casting the Black black rapper Music/TwoChainz as the guy who burns the band's merchandise and instruments, Given given the historic rivalry between fans of {{Rock}} and HipHop and a lot of the racism that went with it.
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** His reviews of David Bowie's ''Blackstar'' and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' ''Skeleton Tree'', both having an uncharacteristically downtrodden and mournful tone; Mark himself has gone on the record as saying he nearly teared up in the process of filming both reviews. The former was shot mere days after the death of David Bowie, and the latter was [[spoiler:the second and to date one of only four albums he's awarded a perfect 10/10 score.]]
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** His reviews of David Bowie's Music/DavidBowie's ''Blackstar'' and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' ''Skeleton Tree'', both having an uncharacteristically downtrodden and mournful tone; Mark himself has gone on the record as saying he nearly teared up in the process of filming both reviews. The former was shot mere days after the death of David Bowie, and the latter was [[spoiler:the second and to date one of only four albums he's awarded a perfect 10/10 score.]]
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''Spectrum Pulse'' is a web review show hosted by Mark Grondin, which started on his blog in 2012 and moved to Website/YouTube a year later. He reviews albums of various genres, as well as the occasional movie review or top ten list, where he is usually accompanied by a plush Voltorb that contributes to the show by adding snarky bottom text to the reviews.
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''Spectrum Pulse'' is a web review {{review}} show hosted by Mark Grondin, which started on his blog in 2012 and moved to Website/YouTube a year later. He reviews albums of various genres, as well as the occasional movie review or top ten list, where he is usually accompanied by a plush Voltorb that contributes to the show by adding snarky bottom text to the reviews.
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* CriticalDissonance: [[invoked]] Has discussed this with regards to CountryMusic. Among other things, he blames this trope on the critics' end for the prevalence of LowestCommonDenominator junk within the genre, arguing that the dismissive attitudes towards country held by many highbrow critics and listeners have caused them to withdraw their voices from the cultural conversation within the genre, allowing the worst sort of PanderingToTheBase to flourish and essentially [[SelfFulfillingProphecy reinforce all of their prejudices]].
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** He has discussed this with regards to CountryMusic. Among other things, he blames this trope on the critics' end for the prevalence of LowestCommonDenominator junk within the genre, arguing that the dismissive attitudes towards country held by many highbrow critics and listeners have caused them to withdraw their voices from the cultural conversation within the genre, allowing the worst sort of PanderingToTheBase to flourish and essentially [[SelfFulfillingProphecy reinforce all of theirprejudices]].prejudices]].
** With PopPunk and EmoMusic, meanwhile, he blames the critics' refusal to take those genres seriously for why sexism got so bad in scene culture in the 2000s. Nobody with a serious platform was calling it out, instead just treating it all as disposable teenybopper garbage, and so an audience comprised mostly of teenage girls too young to know better was showered with {{Misogyny Song}}s by musicians who often sexually groomed and outright abused them.
** He has discussed this with regards to CountryMusic. Among other things, he blames this trope on the critics' end for the prevalence of LowestCommonDenominator junk within the genre, arguing that the dismissive attitudes towards country held by many highbrow critics and listeners have caused them to withdraw their voices from the cultural conversation within the genre, allowing the worst sort of PanderingToTheBase to flourish and essentially [[SelfFulfillingProphecy reinforce all of their
** With PopPunk and EmoMusic, meanwhile, he blames the critics' refusal to take those genres seriously for why sexism got so bad in scene culture in the 2000s. Nobody with a serious platform was calling it out, instead just treating it all as disposable teenybopper garbage, and so an audience comprised mostly of teenage girls too young to know better was showered with {{Misogyny Song}}s by musicians who often sexually groomed and outright abused them.
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* MisogynySong: Discussed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyqtbsuA2c his video essay]] on Music/FallOutBoy's ''Save Rock and Roll''. Given the context of the sexism of 2000s emo/scene culture and rock music more broadly, the album's TakeThatAudience themes, the band's fanbase in the '00s having been comprised mostly of teenage girls, and how every woman in the album's ''Young Blood Chronicles'' videos/film is presented as a villain (especially the casting of Music/CourtneyLove, a major YokoOhNo fixation of Music/{{Nirvana}} fans, as the [[MoralGuardians Tipper Gore]]-esque leader of an evil cult of women who hate music), he thought that it turned into a full-blown Misogyny Album railing against women as fickle killjoys who wrecked their career.
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* RapIsCrap: He thought that the video for Music/FallOutBoy's "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'em Up)" treaded too close to this territory for comfort by casting the Black rapper Music/TwoChainz as the guy who burns the band's merchandise and instruments, Given the historic rivalry between fans of {{Rock}} and HipHop and a lot of the racism that went with it.
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* RockIsAuthenticPopIsShallow: Mark is an unabashed poptimist who's not a fan of this attitude. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyqtbsuA2c his video]] on Music/FallOutBoy's 2013 comeback album ''Save Rock and Roll'', he said that making a great pop song can be just as difficult as making a great rock song if not moreso, in large part ''because'' of the [[CreativityLeash constraints]] placed on musicians that force them to get creative in subverting or working around them, and that it's a talent that's too often dismissed. He feels that rock, by contrast, is frequently placed on a pedestal of musical complexity and depth that it often doesn't deserve, especially not by the 2010s when the genre was entering one of its lowest ebbs of both mainstream success and critical respect. He castigated the 2000s music press (especially ''Pitchfork'') for having fully bought into this trope with regards to PopPunk and EmoMusic, and believes that ''Save Rock and Roll'' was fueled in large part by Fall Out Boy's desire to prove themselves as "real" musicians after having been treated for so long as a glorified BoyBand.
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** In the Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2020, his #1 pick, [[spoiler: "Sunday Best" by Surfaces]], is listed as "pop/torture"
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** When reviewing Larray's "Cancelled" on Billboard Breakdown, the listed genres are "trap/[=YouTube=] bullshit".
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** In the Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2020, his #1 pick, [[spoiler: "Sunday Best" by Surfaces]], is listed as
