'New' Village Voice 'rock' crits are admirably hopeless
Thing I like about the Internerd is that I can get all the hot info dreck hot from the asshole of the 'hip' centres of the world that speak Engerlisch (so being a form 1-3 french failure I can only speak and read English)...
ANYWAY, I've noticed the trend of what seems like 20-something 'rock' critics, mostly gay, mostly male, mostly white, who have three toffs of no-idea about music and yet pittance themselves as rock 'experts'. The writing all follows a pretty much predictable agenda (which is generally per-se for the Voice's lower-word-count pay scheme), but generally the so-caled 'critic' finds the most provocative, hip way to 'review' the item: Try to uncover or demystify the artists 'cryptic' persona to then compartmentalise their 'shtick' into an intellectually 'accessable' format for the 'discerning' consumer to desire.
All this in 250-500 words leaves out one gaping issue: So what's the MUSIC like, and on the consumer tip (do I NEED it?)
All this brings to mind Public Enemy's track 'Who stole the soul', people are so caught up in post-modernism and re-writing everything without doing the hard yards, that ultimately people forget the most fundamental thing that's tried and tested and works: MUSIC
It all starts with the SOUND (and @ times the WORD).
Thing I like about the Internerd is that I can get all the hot info dreck hot from the asshole of the 'hip' centres of the world that speak Engerlisch (so being a form 1-3 french failure I can only speak and read English)...
ANYWAY, I've noticed the trend of what seems like 20-something 'rock' critics, mostly gay, mostly male, mostly white, who have three toffs of no-idea about music and yet pittance themselves as rock 'experts'. The writing all follows a pretty much predictable agenda (which is generally per-se for the Voice's lower-word-count pay scheme), but generally the so-caled 'critic' finds the most provocative, hip way to 'review' the item: Try to uncover or demystify the artists 'cryptic' persona to then compartmentalise their 'shtick' into an intellectually 'accessable' format for the 'discerning' consumer to desire.
All this in 250-500 words leaves out one gaping issue: So what's the MUSIC like, and on the consumer tip (do I NEED it?)
All this brings to mind Public Enemy's track 'Who stole the soul', people are so caught up in post-modernism and re-writing everything without doing the hard yards, that ultimately people forget the most fundamental thing that's tried and tested and works: MUSIC
It all starts with the SOUND (and @ times the WORD).
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