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What We've Lost in Music Criticism (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

submitted 1 year ago by zecg to c/stuffandsuch

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"This is the sort of thing that became Pitchfork’s stock in trade, this confused muddle of politics and pop, stuffed with trendy terms from cultural studies and the insistence that liking music was a form of activism."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!" - Abe Simpson

Personally, I don't think the music industry has ever catered to anyone but Capital. The counter culture was never catered to because it was counter. If you want to find new metal you can find it, just takes some looking is all.

Whenever this topic comes up it feels like the people that liked what they were told to listen to never had to develop the skills to find music they like or the people to share it with. Now those doing the telling have moved on to the new hotness leaving people behind.