Sasha Frere-Jones Leaves NYT For Exec. Editor Gig @ Genius

[Employee]

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Sasha Frere-Jones, the longtime pop music critic for The New Yorker, has left the magazine to join Genius, a website mounting an ambitious expansion after starting as a forum for annotated rap lyrics online.

Mr. Frere-Jones will be an executive editor at Genius, two of its founders, Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman, said in an interview, with a focus on annotations of music lyrics. He will start this week. ...

Mr. Frere-Jones, 47, said that he chose to leave The New Yorker after 11 years for a variety of reasons. He originally became a critic, he said, because he was frustrated that so many of those who wrote about music were ignorant of its nuances. Genius’s tool addresses that, he said, but unlike crowd-sourced information on Twitter or Facebook, which is rapidly superseded, Genius’s snippets remain easily visible forever.

“And I’ll be honest,” he said. “I don’t want to stay up until 4 a.m. any more at shows, and you can annotate lyrics during the day.”

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

there are jobs in this for ians

i know ppl here are harsh on the genius but it provides a useful service, and not just for s; for example, when i want to figure out what type of car pusha t is pretending he drives.

[starks]

for example, when i want to figure out what type of car pusha t is pretending he drives.

[peanut butter]

SFJ is a douchebag so this doesn't surprise me in the least


PEACE

[The Ivy League Nigga]

The New Yorker and NYT are two different things.

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

^east coast bias