supcakes asked: I was out the other night when "Rill Rill" came on and it made me think of something. It's a good song, but let's be real-- the lyrics are pretty dumb. I thought of a Stereogum post on the new Lana Del Rey video, which I think they liked, but they said the lyrics were stupid. Yes, but I wondered: what makes "National Anthem" dumb and "Rill Rill" cool? The lack of a P-Funk sample or MIA's approval? What makes critically acclaimed music these days? I'm trying to figure it out. I thought of you.
It’s actually really simple. Every six months, every music critic in the world gets together at a conference on a private island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to discuss forthcoming albums. One by one we listen to every album scheduled to be released over the next half-year and we don’t move on to the next one until we’ve all reached a consensus, which is actually pretty easy because taste isn’t subjective, it’s objective, that’s just something we tell people to make them feel better about having shitty taste. Of course, anyone who stubbornly votes in the minority is either executed or banished depending on the severity of their contrarianism. The process isn’t flawless - we are mostly just humans, after all - but after about three days we’ve nailed down a pretty solid shortlist which we refer to when the time comes to review the albums properly. And that’s how critically acclaimed babby is formed.
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neveralovelysoreal said:
You left out the part where the backlash/backlash-to-the-backlash/backlash-to-the-backlash-to-the-backlash cycle is coordinated. It’s mostly just a thinkpiece every other Tuesday if I’m remembering correctly.
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