Here is Dissect's mission statement:
Dissect was created to counter this cultural shift.
Dissect picks one album per season and analyzes one song per episode measure by measure, word by word.
It's a noble endeavor, and Pimp a Butterfly is an excellent album to start with! But in a general sense, here is my critique:
It's funny how connoisseur culture favors this kind of stuff. i might be critical here: their message is to reverse the scroll-through culture that our hyperconsumerism has led to, but their remedy (feeding you the exhaustive list of facts about the song in order to truly capture it) suffers from an arguably similar cultural sickness. In the end we don't put on the headphones and close our eyes through an album anymore, we either scroll through feeds or reductively dissect the facts about a song in order to conquer it (see: success of rapgenius). Let's be cautious in how we frame our solution.
That being said, I'm definitely going to play the shit out of this because I'm a complete product of connoisseur culture.
