Mentions (9)
"Why are all the top albums on RYM fucking rap nowadays?"
"For as easy as it is to shit on letterboxd, RYM, or most other rating sites, if you go through their top 100 lists you'll at least be introduced to some classics/even some real quality stuff."
"Same goes for music. You didn't have to be some RYM music guy to find great music back then. You didn't have to seek out The Beatles or Fleetwood Mac or Michael Jackson. They were just there."
"Years ago I used to spend days collating my music collections, browsing RYM, torrenting and burning CDs."
"Waiting in line I heard people talking about "rym" (like speaking the actual acronym out loud), and people repeating internet memes in real life."
"Letterboxd, Goodreads, RYM - Good for curation but you can't really scroll for hours on end like the others"
"Every single person on rym is just making a slightly different ordering of the same 50 albums as their favorites. People may disagree but it feels like if you go on Letterboxd or Lit forums people have a wide variety of tastes and give plenty of hot tales saying they hate extremely well acclaimed wo"
"I am talking about professional music critics not random people posting what they think about an album or whatever on Youtube, Reddit, or RYM in a discussion about a band or album ."
"Hip hop is an explicitly black genre and when you go on forums like RYM, AOTY or r/hiphopheads it's almost like it's white fans speaking on behalf of the black fans who the music is made by and for."