Controv!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Here are some links that may entertain or aggravate ya!

(If you read my tumblr or Lex's LJ you'll have seen them)

What hath Popism wrought?: critics being nice to albums - WHEN WILL THE MADNESS STOP.

Right Music Wrongs: popism means that the righteous anger of the people against bad music must now be outsourced to corporations like Virgin Mobile Australia.

Simon Reynolds on 'wonky': a losing move in the game of genre jenga, sez Lex (and many others)

Comments

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I was reading a good article about why book and music reviews are generally so much more positive than movie reviews. The thesis, basically, was that movies get huge marketing hypes, so people read movie reviews to see whether a movie is good or bad, so bad reviews serve a good purpose. Music and book reviews people basically read to find some undiscovered gem to listen to, so it's better to find somebody who likes the item that they can give a good review to.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I would like to read that article if you still know where it can be found.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it was on the Onion AV Club website. I'll check it out when I get home, cause I can't access that site at work.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Ta!