Album Rating: 2.5

It is a big deal, it’s commercially successful pop music. I’m just saying that doesn’t impress me at all

Album Rating: 1.0

yeah stop gaslighting us

Album Rating: 5.0

critical reception is also stellar

Album Rating: 1.5

These days a different opinion about what the person considers an important subject is almost the same as calling someone a donkey to their face



I sound like an old man and I'm not even 30 yet

Album Rating: 2.5

“Critical reception is also stellar” yeah that means even less to me

Album Rating: 1.0

"critical reception is also stellar





music critics are the most worthless ppl on the planet

round em up

Album Rating: 4.5

"music critics are the most worthless ppl on the planet



Album Rating: 1.0"

Album Rating: 5.0

lol most of us write reviews on this site, it's a murder suicide

Album Rating: 1.0

you think rating something out of 5 makes you a pro. critic huh

The fact that so many books still name Charli XCX as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" electropop artist ever only tells you how far electropop music still is from becoming a serious art. EDM critics have long recognized that the greatest EDM musicians of all time are Aphex Twin and Burial, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all time. Bubblegum bass critics rank the highly controversial A.G. Cook over bubblegum musicians who were highly popular in shopping malls around suburban America. Electropop critics, instead, are still blinded by commercial success. Charli XCX sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore she must have been the greatest. EDM critics grow up listening to a lot of EDM music of the past, Bubblegum bass critics grow up listening to a lot of Bubblegum bass music of the past. Electropop critics are often totally ignorant of the electropop music of the past, they barely know the best sellers.

In a sense, Charli XCX is emblematic of the status of electropop criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks her up and sells her around the world, most electropop critics will ignore her. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her. This is the sad status of electropop criticism: critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.

Album Rating: 4.5

That perspective is a pretty narrow view of electronic & dance music as a whole

do not engage with the shitbit

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm praying that's a copypasta and not a sincere, original thought

Album Rating: 5.0

i mean, i don't entirely disagree but



ok.

classic pasta right there

Electropop lmao

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