From: Becky Earley <kikgirl517@hotmail.com>
quoted 3 lines Has anyone noticed how all of a sudden everyone liked IDM?? I mean it's a
> Has anyone noticed how all of a sudden everyone liked IDM?? I mean it's a
> good thing that people are listening to good music, but it seems like
> everyone thinks it is cool lately to like Autechre and Squarepusher.
I've noticed this too, though I don't think it's a new phenomenon. Music
critics love dropping these names and others, because it makes them look
trendy and credible, and defuses criticism that they never like anything, or
that what they like is just rehashing old stuff. I'm sure it became very hip
to like Stravinsky after riots broke out at his performances.
I wax and wane on music criticism...for a while I enjoy reading particular
reviews and then later I get bored with the pretientiousness of it all. I
enjoy reading Wire at the moment because the writers don't seem too worried
about what the readers think and aren't forced into stupid rating schemes.
Anig Browl
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