“Crowds have terrible taste. People have awful taste. Once people start talking about indie rock on the internet it’s all this music that rises to the middle. That’s boring, bland, white people, guitar music, it fucking sucks. I hate it. it’s NPR bullshit and NPR is forced to write about it over again and again because its the “Link Economy” and people are going to click on it if it says Fleet Foxes. Well Fleet Foxes fucking suck. It’s not the music that’s the best, it’s the music that the most people can stand. The music that the most people can listen to. If you let the people decide, then nothing truly adventurous ever get out and that’s a problem.”
Christopher R. Weingarten on The Death of Music Criticism or How to Ensure Your Own inevitable Demise in 140 Characters or Less
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