Music critic in being critical of music shocker

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Next best thing? "Botherd" says McCormick

Most of this article made me go 'oh, what a load of t0ss', but there's a point lurking about in there somewhere: does an artist need more than one great album in order to become AMAZING? Does an artist even need more than one great song? Does a string of consistently 'very good' albums count for anything if there are no dazzling peaks?

Comments

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I think the whole argument is predicated on the assumption that listeners need to trust an artist because it is more satisfying. Which it is! I like most of the tracks posted here, but I’m not going to go to these people’s shows, or spend massive amounts of time talking about them on the Internet, or even seek out other tracks by them – that’s what my obsession with Kara DioGuardi is for. And actually, no, the argument isn’t about trust, it’s about caring – listeners need to care about an artist, and it’s how often do you care about people you just met? My top 10 included plenty of people I hadn’t heard (or had heard and vehemently disliked) till this year, too, but including Leona Lewis in my top 10 tracks of 2007 =/= giving a shit about Leona Lewis in 2008. In fact, I'm probably going to spend 2008 being really excited about A Tribe Called Quest and Arthur Brown.