poptimists | (Reply)

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I have a couple of pieces to finish today, so I can't go into this, but the problem with music criticism is cultural, not new technologies. It's kind of like punk rock: punk got boring not because someone invented a drum machine, but because the culture of punk got boring, because as "punk" got larger it was taken over by punks who didn't really want punk, they wanted something more self-affirming. And rock criticism is by and large practiced by people who don't really want to do criticism, or don't know how, or something. Maybe the next "rock criticism" won't be about music, just as maybe the next rock-like cultural effusion won't be musical.