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Who likes the NME?
Anyone?
We all know it's what Smash Hits is (well, was) to pop music, for Indie kids. It's a terrible magazine who seem to rate popularity over artistic content, which it pretends to do. Just thought I'd ask this since the awards have been given out to the best acts in the world, ever, and no one will be better than them, ever, at all, ever! |
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The NME is OK. I like to leaf through it in Sainsbury's- it can be entertaining and has some funny articles.
However you would be mistaken to take it as your bible. It is very biased (it picks heroes and villains. For example they stroke Lightspeed Champion's ego like mad, but never have a nice word to say about Johnny Borrel), it's elitist in that it sticks to one genre (indie) and makes out that if you don't listen to that genre you are missing out (half the time you're missing nothing much) and it arse-licks a few particular bands. It seems to promote 'cool' culture (it even has a cool list), the forums are unmoderated and are therefore overrun with trolls, sock puppets and people with an IQ in negative numbers, and the awards are anything but credible- Pete Doherty and Gerard way are up for both Best Dresses and Worst Dressed simultaneously. Also they had a warm-up to the awards in the form of little fifteen minute reviews of the nominees, and one of the guest-co-hosts was Peaches Geldof who hasn't done anything except ride off her Dad's success. However, as I said, the NME can be quite entertaining- in fact I like it (for all the wrong reasons, but still), and I'm looking forward to watching the awards as I think they could be a good laugh more than anything else. I definitely don't take the NME seriously. As far as I'm concerned it's best light-hearted and lacking credibility, because that's what makes it fun. If I want to read a magazine for genuine musical reviews and reccomendations then I read Kerrang (although admittedly that's only marginally more credible than the NME- in the Kerrang awards they have had Gerard Way win sexiest female) as it is geared closer to my musical tastes and is more likely to feature bands I'm interested in. |
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I don't like the way NME seem to pick certain bands then suck up to them.
They seem to have done some fair reviews over their time, I know they've given various pop bands good reviews, but then again they gave bands like Busted & McFly, as well as Robbie's Rudebox Good reviews - then went on to nominate them as "Worst Album" in their awards. They just try to be cool for the sake of it. Bands are in their good books when they're popular, then go out of it the moment they get "too popular" Their awards are nothing more than a glorified Smash Hits Poll Winners Party - they're relatively harmless, but don't prove much at all. Although at least Smash Hits showed some similarities between what they wrote and who they nominated. |
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I like nme, the magazine!!
However, the awards ceremony was so rubbish!! I had to switch off half an hour through, it made me so mad!! ... the bands were kind of crap as well ... the light speed champion or whoever he was with dirty pretty strings. I was like WTF? what a bunch of crap ... the whole thing was just noice!! And the two presenters, the most un-funny people i've ever seen!! They were predictable and BORING!! |
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The fact that their awards ceremony is sponsored by a hair product says it all really.
And Pete Doherty hero of the year (again, I believe)? |
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I don't mind it. It's far too obsessed with being fashionable, but it's an entertaining read sometimes.
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Anyone?
We all know it's what Smash Hits is (well, was) to pop music, for Indie kids. It's a terrible magazine who seem to rate popularity over artistic content, which it pretends to do. Just thought I'd ask this since the awards have been given out to the best acts in the world, ever, and no one will be better than them, ever, at all, ever! |
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Why are you obsessed with the NME??
![]() I've recently posted in a massive 2 threads about it... hardly obsessed. |
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I like the NME. Great read, always tells you about best new bands.
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I used to like the NME when I was 16 and I think that is the age group they aim for - easily influenced
As has been said, I just think they try too hard to be cool. Sure they tell you about new bands - as long as those bands are in keeping with what NME thinks is cool right now. Once the bands they champion hit the mainstream they turn on them. Pretty silly really. And don't get me started on their 'awards'!!
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And don't get me started on their 'awards'!!
![]() Why is it the crowd there always looks like they took a wrong turning en route to a funeral? And they televise so few of the awards- I switched on wanting to see all the really ridiculous ones about Best Dressed and the like. Of course, all the petty awards were cut out in the end! |
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I used to read the NME years ago, back in the 80s and 90s and right up until the turn of the millennium, really (although I was only really buying out of habit by that point.)
I don't think I "outgrew" it, it just felt like the quality of the journalism was getting steadily worse and the magazine was appealing to more superficial concerns, like how artists look and dress, rather than on the music per se. I think the NME panicked big time when the other weekly music magazines all went down the tubes and they started going for what was popular and fashionable rather than looking at musical quality in order to boost sales (understandable to a degree.) Like others have said, it's now like an indie Smash Hits and seems exclusively geared towards a teenage readership, which is something I never felt was the case in previous years (I didn't start reading the NME until I was 19 and at no point did I feel I was "too old" for it until the late 90s.) |
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The very fact that Pete Doherty is deemed by NME hacks and readers to be a 'hero', is good enough reason alone for me not to even look at the cover.
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It's the end of the road for this skanky rag, it's only useful purpose is for students when they run out of bog roll, they can use it to wipe their butts.
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It's the end of the road for this skanky rag, it's only useful purpose is for students when they run out of bog roll, they can use it to wipe their butts.
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No, don't like being told what I should listen too.
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Sounds used to whip its arse...
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As has been said, I just think they try too hard to be cool. Sure they tell you about new bands - as long as those bands are in keeping with what NME thinks is cool right now. Once the bands they champion hit the mainstream they turn on them. Pretty silly really. And don't get me started on their 'awards'!!