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Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub
do you honestly believe Sylus wasn't trying to compete with Pitchfork? they're almost identical and covered almost the exact same shit.
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and? what music website formed around the same time by a similar demographic would NOT be covering "almsot the exact same shit" (even though, if you actually read the site, Stylus clearly had much more interesting and varied content)? what creative things have ever existed totally in a vacuum, without drawing from others? do you really see nothing but a 1:1 correlation here? is whatever is perceived as #1 the only thing that registers to you personally?
if Stylus were ever competing with Pitchfork, it was for the barest necessities--writers, ad revenue, promos, whatever. to anyone who has ever communicated with Todd Burns, it's completely apparent that guy started the site as a music dork who thought it would be an interesting way to wile away the time. that people would one day be dissing Stylus as a second-rate Pitchfork is something i seriously doubt ever occurred to him when he started that site. the nice thing about Stylus is that it's been such a rich forum for music lovers to think out loud, which has nothing in common with how Pitchfork attempts, and has always attempted, to give the final word on everything.