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Music reviews are the absolute worst. Reviewers have virtually nothing to ground their opinions and so they come as hard as they can with invective or over-the-top praise in order to seem knowledgeable. Listening to a music critic is like consulting a witch doctor: you're gonna get a lot of noise and flash, but very little of any use.

That said, it has been funny to watch over the years as artists who used to be praised either critically or popularly have fallen out of favor, and others of sometimes little regard have been elevated. It's amusing to watch the accepted wisdom shift and change.