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Is This The End Of Our Wenning Streak?
Last fall, we took one slightly iffy theory—that Rolling Stone arbitrarily hands out three-star reviews, no matter the album's merits—and proceeded to run it into the ground. At first, "Everybody's A Wenner" was kind of fun: We picked through the magazine, dropped a few Mark Knopfler one-liners, and occasionally poked fun at "The Smoking Section." During the past six months, there were moments when it seemed like we were actually getting our message across, and we could have sworn we saw an uptick in three-and-a-half and two-star reviews. But when we crunched (or "glanced at") the hard data, it appears as though the magazine is running about the same percentage of three-starrers.
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Every few weeks, we plow into Rolling Stone magazine's vaunted music-reviews section. But since the current issue is a year-end round-up—meaning they need to preserve feature-well space for skanky pictures of Pam Anderson—they didn't leave a lot of room for reviews. So we'll keep this brief.
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Everybody's A Wenner: The "Rolling Stone" Review-Section Revue
Every few weeks, we plow into Rolling Stone magazine's vaunted music-reviews section. But since the current issue is a year-end round-up—meaning they need to preserve feature-well space for skanky pictures of Pam Anderson—they didn't leave a lot of room for reviews. So we'll keep this brief.
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Every week, we dig into the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine—and not just because we want to read Joss Stone talking shit about Nelly "Don't Be Wearin'" Furtado. No, we love giving the Stone's infamous review section a good once-over, just to see how their nonsensically distributed multi-starred reviews are aligning.
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Everybody's A Wenner: The "Rolling Stone" Revue-Section Revue
Every week, we dig into the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine—and not just because we want to read Joss Stone talking shit about Nelly "Don't Be Wearin'" Furtado. No, we love giving the Stone's infamous review section a good once-over, just to see how their nonsensically distributed multi-starred reviews are aligning.
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Whenever we get a new issue of Rolling Stone, we're never sure where to turn first: Peter Travers' F-bomb-dropping movie reviews? The "Me and Chris Robinson totally played Boggle" boasts of the Smoking Section? Or maybe the numerous, not-at-all-unnecessary feature-story sidebars?
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Everybody's A Wenner: The "Rolling Stone" Review-Section Revue
Whenever we get a new issue of Rolling Stone, we're never sure where to turn first: Peter Travers' F-bomb-dropping movie reviews? The "Me and Chris Robinson totally played Boggle" boasts of the Smoking Section? Or maybe the numerous, not-at-all-unnecessary feature-story sidebars?
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gawker
Every two weeks, we troll through Rolling Stone magazine's boomer-lovin' reviews section, hoping to prove our theory that the rag hands out three-star reviews with little or no discretion. And we'll be damned if our campaign isn't starting to have an effect: The last two issues have featured only five 3-star reviews each. That's amazing! Or an amazing coincidence. Either way, we'll take it. And to all the artists who came close to getting a three-star review, but were cut down to 2.5 stars because of our efforts—we're talking to you, JoJo and Yusuf Islam!—our apologies.
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Everybody's A Wenner: The "Rolling Stone" Review-Section Revue
Every two weeks, we troll through Rolling Stone magazine's boomer-lovin' reviews section, hoping to prove our theory that the rag hands out three-star reviews with little or no discretion. And we'll be damned if our campaign isn't starting to have an effect: The last two issues have featured only five 3-star reviews each. That's amazing! Or an amazing coincidence. Either way, we'll take it. And to all the artists who came close to getting a three-star review, but were cut down to 2.5 stars because of our efforts—we're talking to you, JoJo and Yusuf Islam!—our apologies.
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gawker
For the past few months, we've been analyzing Rolling Stone's famed reviews section, wondering if our long-held conspiracy-theory query was true: Does every album in this damn magazine automatically get three stars? And after weeks of fuzzy math, we're starting to wonder if Jann and his crew of Ralph Gleason wannabes are actually paying attention to us.
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Everybody's A Wenner: The "Rolling Stone" Review-Section Revue
For the past few months, we've been analyzing Rolling Stone's famed reviews section, wondering if our long-held conspiracy-theory query was true: Does every album in this damn magazine automatically get three stars? And after weeks of fuzzy math, we're starting to wonder if Jann and his crew of Ralph Gleason wannabes are actually paying attention to us.
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everybody's a wenner
Welcome back to another edition of "Everybody's A Wenner," in which we look at Rolling Stone's Knoplfer-lovin' record-reviews section, and try to prove the theory that every album earns a three-star rating—no matter how bad. For a slightly more convoluted explanation, check out our first installment.
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Everybody's A Wenner: The "Rolling Stone" Review-Section Revue
Welcome back to another edition of "Everybody's A Wenner," in which we look at Rolling Stone's Knoplfer-lovin' record-reviews section, and try to prove the theory that every album earns a three-star rating—no matter how bad. For a slightly more convoluted explanation, check out our first installment.
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Welcome back to another edition of "Everybody's A Wenner," in which we look at Rolling Stone's 750-year-old record-reviews section, and try to prove the theory that every album earns a three-star rating—no matter how offensively bad that album may be. For a slightly more convoluted explanation, check out our first installment.
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Everybody's A Wenner: The "Rolling Stone" Review-Section Revue
Welcome back to another edition of "Everybody's A Wenner," in which we look at Rolling Stone's 750-year-old record-reviews section, and try to prove the theory that every album earns a three-star rating—no matter how offensively bad that album may be. For a slightly more convoluted explanation, check out our first installment.
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everybody's a wenner
A strange thing happened while we were browsing through the reviews section of the latest Rolling Stone: We started feeling negative. Not necessarily toward the magazine itself, mind you — its non-questioning consumption of all things popular still drives us crazy, but at least they're teaching the kids about how much Warren G. Harding sucked. No, we felt just plain down, as if we were trapped somewhere between "poor" and "mediocre."
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Everybody's A Wenner: The "Rolling Stone" Review-Section Revue
A strange thing happened while we were browsing through the reviews section of the latest Rolling Stone: We started feeling negative. Not necessarily toward the magazine itself, mind you — its non-questioning consumption of all things popular still drives us crazy, but at least they're teaching the kids about how much Warren G. Harding sucked. No, we felt just plain down, as if we were trapped somewhere between "poor" and "mediocre."
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