Editorial
PopFilter Editorial: The Best Songwriter You’ve Never Heard Of
Pop music gets little to no respect as a genre. It’s passe, for squealing pubescent girls who show up to concerts with their reluctant fathers and glitter smeared across the apples of their be-acned cheeks. The lyrics in pop is about as deep as a side-walk puddle, especially in comparison to rap and…
Read MorePopfilter Special Report: Watch a Movie for Social Justice
If you’ve visited the website for longer than 2 seconds, you get that the tone ranges from semi-serious reviews to the out-and-out farcical. We do our best to shy away from political discussions of any kind, as they are mostly total bummers. We try to be entertainment about entertainment, and (because we refuse to do…
Read MoreBattle For The Net
If you woke up tomorrow, and your internet looked like this, what would you do? Imagine all your favorite websites taking forever to load, while you get annoying notifications from your ISP suggesting you switch to one of their approved “Fast Lane†sites.Think about what we would lose: all the weird, alternative, interesting, and…
Read MoreWE DID IT!
We did it! Thank you Filterinos for your support, be it monetary, emotional, spiritual,, intellectual, sexual, but most of all monetary. It means a lot that everyone would give so generously to a handful of people who are addicted to pop culture, even if you only gave to get us to shut the fuck up.…
Read MoreHAPPY 3 YEARS OF POPFILTERING!
While I write this update, I’m drinking a Bloody Mary, and doing so for a couple of reasons: First off, because it’s Saturday. That means it’s totally okay for anyone to start drinking whenever they feel like it, regardless of what “time†it is or how many “families†with “kids†are running around to say…
Read MorePop Filter Editorial
POP FILTER EDITORIAL In which we step from behind the curtain to spout opinions. “What’s right isn’t always popular, and what’s popular isn’t always rightâ€- my Mom (and probably someone before her) I’m not here to make friends. This isn’t some meet-up group where we’re all into board games, or…
Read MorePOP FILTER EDITORIAL
POP FILTER EDITORIAL In which we step from behind the curtain to spout opinions. Holding Out For A Hero* “Folks talk about morality like it’s black and white. Or maybe they think they’re smart and when they’re at a cocktail party acting pretentious they say it’s grey. But you know what it really is? A…
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PopFilterEditorial In which we step from behind the curtain to spout opinions. Be Offended By Laziness And Nothing Else It seems like there’s almost an annual event in the media: a comic says something that offends someone, and then the world divides into those crying out free speech and those denouncing the content of…
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