Not a grower

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What is the accepted term for the opposite of a "grower"? "Shrinker" sounds stupid somehow.

This is in reference to a major 2008 pop release :(

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"it's still rubbish"

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

'doesn't bear repeat listenings well?'

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

"Just as crappy on the third listen as it was on the first"

"Fails to hold the attention despite initial promise"

Flimsy? Unsubstantial? LACKS CONVICTION (AND A TUNE)?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

WIZENER

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is it Madonna btw?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Shhh! Not until the release date.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I think pirate-m has identified the standard lame music crit phraseology. Of course since most reviews are written after only three listens, it must mean 'I kind of liked it when I was doing the washing up, but once I paid attention I realised it was shit...'!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

haha SO GUILTY AS CHARGED.

Man all my reviews seem to be "Yes this record SEEMS like a good idea now let us examine its HORRIBLE FLAWS"

[andthatisthat.livejournal.com]

Me too! I'm totally pwned by this assessment. :D

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Nah I think that is unfair to yourself, your rvws are generally of the most "now I listen anew!" ones ever*. The "yes this record seems" is there sometimes (most visible in Popular prob, because that is loaded with canon and youth and influence and other possible nonexistants), but it can equally well go the other way also.

*) or maybe that is just what you meant? Anyway, to me the standard phraseology of "I THOT X [15 years ago / washing up just now] semicolon NOW I THINK Y [because I have passed 23 / am instead doing the ironing]" is one of the most fun to read anyway.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

chardonnay style manual (right by my side) ITEM 7: "Feel free to use the word "anyway" as frequently and indiscriminately as you wish, as long as it does not start and end the same sentence." d'oh etc.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

reducer :)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"failer of the test of space" OBV

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Dwindler.

[redcommieapples.livejournal.com]

"has an expiry date"

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Waner? Crumbler? Dissipater? An apparent slap in the face to the law of the conservation of energy, which says that an object cannot sustain perpetual motion in the SUCKWISE direction, unless it just hasn't plateaued yet because I only listened to it three or four times? (I haven't heard the new Madonna album yet.)

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

A Sinker, haha