What do people want from music criticism?

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I know plenty of people who just want a stamp of approval, a "buy it/don't buy it." I have a few other critic friends who feel like the job of a critic is to expose the underexposed good music that's out there.

I've always felt like criticism was an important end in itself. At its best (IMO), criticism deepens your understanding of a work of art by properly contextualizing it socially, historically and politically.

Anybody want to jump in on this?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

We prefer to make other threads about this debate rather than actually discuss it directly.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

money!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: a paycheck

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

there are tons of threads about this. revive one of those.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

You might find this of interest:

The vagaries of music criticism (article)

There are other threads too. (Seriously, welcome, hi there, I'm guessing you're new...and please use the search function. A lot of stuff *has* been talked about before.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

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