Right

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The promised follow-up questions (two of them in fact)

What have you been most right about? (The world may or may not have caught up to you on this)

Does being seen as "wrong" or "right" about music by other people bother you much?

Comments

Re: What really really really gets me mad

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Won't go into where I thought I was right (though M. Matos semi-mockingly called me the little-known writer of "the most important music review of the decade"!), but in line w/ what Frank just said, I wrote this on Marc Hogan's blog, part of a longer semi-incoherent rant and convo (https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6302794271451371310&postID=2582398475964053466) (truncated):

...good music writing could come from anywhere. It doesn't come from very many places about ANY kind of music right now, but there's not a direct correlation to the music being discussed (there's a lot of amazing music with little to zero good criticism about it, just waiting to be written) [...] But hey, how about Fergie? Lots and lots and lots of words, but NO GOOD CRITICISM about her album, and it's a great album! (If Sanjaya puts out a great album, maybe I'll want to read good words/have a good convo about him, but for now he hasn't done anything to merit one.) How about HSM, the #1 CD of the year, probably a bajillion words written on it and not a one of 'em will make anyone, including me, even remotely interested in listening to it (usually the underlying point in those articles was that non-kids SHOULDN'T be listening to it, and shouldn't be expected to -- it was for the primal preteen hordes. Why?). [...] performers who get fifty ZILLION words and not a single one that makes me want to do anything but stop reading