I was reading a rewiew of one of XXXTentation's albums and I wondered the same thing. Beyond the quality of the critiques, there are these phrases thrown around that I don't think even people literate in music could tell what they're supossed to mean.
What kind of stuff make the reviews of other media to work (sort of), however? Well, people tend to analyze structures and debate whether or not each individual component works and communicates what the creator originally intended. Critiquing the quality of these components in music must be really hard as all of them, with the exception of vocals, are purely sonorous. And it's not surprising, I think. When people are put to describe things with their senses, a lot really struggle when they're put to come up with adjectives that describe the sonorous and olfactory qualities of an object.
My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first.
