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Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics for a Startup

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> “Their plan was just” — he used an expletive perhaps appropriate for his new role at the iconoclastic start-up — “really impressive.”

Gotta love The New York Times. It takes them fourteen words to avoid printing the word "fucking". And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper.

One is reminded of Family Guy's take on The New Yorker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6MyeCXmiKw

>> "And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper."

I don't think it's a reference to startups in general but to this particular startup.

Heaven forfend adults should use adult language.

On the other hand, are vulgarities truly "adult"?

insofar as we seem to have a dogmatic insistence that children not use them

I think that's less an avoidance of printing the work "fucking", and more a concerted effort to use the word "iconoclastic".

The New Yorker doesn't shy away from profanity. If you search the magazine archives you'll find many instances of fuck, bitch, asshole, etc.

A simple google search also shows this to be true (fuck site:newyorker.com).

don't forget to check out the annotated version ;) http://genius.com/www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/business/media/...

Coincidentally, genius.com uses a font (Whitney) that his brother designed.

We still call Genius a "startup"? Founded 2009.

Even if we can, HN users are likely familiar with Genius. Should we really stick to the original headline so closely in cases like this when the title editorializes more than the clearer alternative "... for Genius"?

>> "HN users are likely familiar with Genius"

They were on HN A LOT a while back because of all the controversy around them.

This is pretty huge. Makes me want to work there.

Their new Director of Operations is absolutely the nicest person and best manager I've ever worked for in my life.

It's time to start taking this company seriously.

This reminds of when (then widely respected) Lou Dobbs left CNN to head up space.com

No bubble here, though.

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