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Submitter’s comments: I don’t have much comment on this site. Maybe it’s my bad, but I’m totally lost in the navigation. After desperately clicking everywhere to skip the starting animation, I discovered that the “?” pops up a window where you can read information about direct navigation. It only takes a couple of minutes to read and memorize… Little squares, gallop, left-and-right, animated and always disappearing menu made me close the site, though I know it has an article somewhere I was interested in.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: This site sucks worse than the headline band at the Tractor Tavern last night and they sucked mightily. (I took a young, beautiful blonde woman to see “The Maldives.” Their first song had two lines in it and one of the lines was “Goodbye” repeated over and over and over. I wrote better lyrics when I was six years old. Two songs later, we both said “Goodbye” to the Maldives.)

Yes, I know this is a fashion site and they probably should be exempt because fashion is about appearance and not reality. However, even in my most socialistic, class-hating moments, I find it impossible to believe that rich people (the target audience) would put up with this nonsense.

Yes, this site is beautiful, but it’s unusable. It’s like using fine china to serve crap. This web site may easily be the Worst Site of 2009 and could be one the worst web sites of this century.

Note 1 : The beautiful blonde mentioned above is my daughter. One of the opening acts was our favorite local band, North Twin. They totally rocked, kicked ass, and took names. They obliterated The Maldives. To put it in perspective, it was a lot like the time Led Zeppelin opened for Iron Butterfly at the Fillmore East…

Note 2: My daughter, no doubt in an effort to upset me this morning, said “Here’s somebody who likes the Maldives’ ‘Goodbye’ song.” She showed me an article entitled Maldives – Listen To The Thunder and, in the interest of presenting an opposing viewpoint, here’s the relevant text:

In the first song on the Listen to the Thunder “Goodbye,” also the lead song of the Maldives debut EP which we were so enamored with last year. Dodson sings by repeating “Goo-ood-byeeeeeee-oooooooh” over a heavy, almost solemn beat, his words intertwined with pedal steel, fiddle, and guitar lines. From the listeners perspective, the song can feel a sort of a progression. Through turmoil a coming-to-terms, yet much remains unsaid between the song’s spare lyrics, and we’re left to let the song find our own resolution in the final bittersweet guitar lead guitar lines. Today curiously, I found no resolution at all in that end, or the process of the song at all. I was simply left mournful.

Where the reviewer sees profundity, I see pretentiousness; however, unlike web design, both sides of a music debate can be right. Check out the whole article at the link above. The review is…interesting.

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