Music critics are less than useless. One of my favorite albums of all time growing up was Starship's "Knee Deep In the Hoopla", which featured the smash #1 hit "We Built This City" that today is regarded by self-absorbed music snobs the world over as one of the worst songs of all time. Why? Because they said so, that's why! Just do a quick google search for the song and it'll turn up tons of articles stating just that.
Doesn't matter the fact that the song is catchy as all hell and rivals A-Ha's "Take On Me" as one of the most memorable and decade-defining pop songs of the 80s. Nope, we're all supposed to hate it because the powers-that-be do. Something about the group "selling out" or "going mainstream" or some other BS... never mind the fact that Starship's sound and direction in the 80s was no different than that of tons of other artists and bands that first got big in the 60s / 70s and then reinvented themselves in the 80s.
The only time music critics were ever right is when they universally trashed Metallica's "St. Anger", because it deserved to be trashed.
On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.
