Music critics are cancer.
Some of my favorite albums of all time took me 5+ listens for me to "get" it. These idiots skim through an album in an attempt to find an "objective" error they can point out to make themselves sound intelligent. 99% of the time they just adhere to the critic groupthink because they're dead inside and incapable of actually understanding what makes music special.
Congrats on just now realizing this.
fantano gives album multiple listens before reviewing
most critics do this as well
what's your point?
>have a schedule to keep so they can't listen to albums until they force themselves to like them
>when they do change their mind people get on them for bandwagoning and being untrue to their original critique
If you're listening to music to rate it on a scale or jot down errors, you cannot experience the music.
There's no point in reading an album review in [current year] because everything in on Youtube anyways. Reviews are created BY snobs FOR snobs who just want to appear to be intelligent.
not sure if bait but i'll answer to this anyway
>Some of my favorite albums of all time took me 5+ listens for me to "get" it
good critics listen to albums that they review a couple of times and for the most part, multiple listens are not required since these people have a lot of experience with music
>These idiots skim through an album in an attempt to find an "objective" error they can point out to make themselves sound intelligent
nice projection right there. literally no one gives a fuck whether they appear intelligent or not, it's their actual job to review music.
>they're dead inside and incapable of actually understanding what makes music special
im starting to think you're autistic at this point. do you even common sense, m8?
Or perhaps people want to hear other's opinion about a certain album. Everybody likes opinions and if you're saying otherwise, the fuck are you doing on this website. Besides this, I find music reviews entertaining and I watch them just for fun. Most of the time I dont even agree with the opinons that are being stated but i respect them regardless if they are well articulated.
>Reviews are created BY snobs FOR snobs who just want to appear to be intelligent.
no, reviews are created by people who enjoy analyzing and discussing music
nobody tries to appear intelligent, only shitty pitchfork reviews do this
people love music enough to do something to get paid for it, isn't that a strange concept?
I agree with Fantano almost 8 out of 10 times.
But how else will you know if you should like an album?
fuck off marcel
If you think you can reduce an entire album to one arbitrary number, then that says a lot about how much of a misguided faggot you are.
Everyone who listens to music is a music critic in that they have their own opinion of the music they listen to.
Are you annoyed that someone has a different way of listening to/appreciating music? If you don't agree with someone, you don't need to waste effort and time in being angry at their opinion, and can, for the most part, ignore it.
You missed the entire point. I agree that rating albums is quite cancerous since stupid fucks like you only care about some stupid number (which they also think it's arbitrary, lol) without paying attention to the actual analysis of the music. Yeah, rating albums is stupid but that doesn't invalidate opinions and arguments.
5 listens is nowhere near enough
Music reviewers are helpful in that they can help expand people's taste, and help them see music in a new perspective from someone more well-informed. What I disagree with, though, is rating and categorizing all music. If you go into something with the mindset of "I have to rate this", you're already confining yourself. It limits the ability of art to do anything or make a statement, and can also set up a hivemind.
No, but you can express the intensity of an emotion on a numerical scale. After all, that's what the score represents in truth, how much enjoyment the person experiences when listening to it
You're a fucking idiot. Reviewing albums has nothing to do with an arbitrary number to rate the release. If you look below the top of a review, you'll notice words, sentences and paragraphs that attempt to describe the music and explain their refined opinions.
I'm guessing you're a teenager so you can't be bothered to read anything, though.
you obviously aren't familiar with scaruffi
come back when you've read at least 100 of his artist pages
>music critic is actually the disease, cancer #anthonyfantano
No reviews are created (ussually) by people who listen to alot of music and are knowledgable about it. It isn't there to change your opinion its there to challenge it and compare tastes and to see what other poeples opinion is on it. How are you still alive in 2016 and still haven't gotten this?
Scaruffi is a terrible critic and a meme.
>>have a schedule to keep
>quantity over quality