Music nerds praising a mainstream pop album used to happened only once per decade; now it seems that every year there's a new pop record to glaze, does this signal that pop music are getting better or music nerds are having worse tastes?
>>131522889>does this signal that pop music are getting betterSAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!
>>131522889It's clearly the latter
>>131522889they have worst taste but thats okay
>>131522889>does this signal that pop music are getting better or music nerds are having worse tastes?None, the music industry is just paying shills more to shill pop now that rap has collapsed
>>131522889Worst taste, and worst of all they just glaze the performer which usually has zero real input in what the music sounds like. Take Lovesounds, the glaze was not about Timberlake, it was about Timbaland's production and composition, and understandbly so because he defined the 00s rnb sound and turned Timberlake into a 'cool' respected performer beyond a boyband with this album
>>131522889There isn't much to choose from considering there are millions of non-mainstream artists emerging every second and obviously commercial success is an indicator of "listenability" to a certain extent.
>>131522889there was a shift around mid 2010s to performative poptimism in order to make up for the "gatekeeping white male elitism" indie rock and rock critics were known for during the woke era. its not that the pop music got better, but they lowered their standards so they could be more "inclusive"
>>131528378When is the pendulum going to swing back? It did in most other fields but music critics are still stuck in that phase.
>>131522889Music nerds aren't the ones praising it, it's disgusting mentally ill Xitter "stans" who THINK they're music nerds but all they do is orbit some kpop group or individual popgirls.
>>131528378>there was a shift around mid 2010s to performative poptimism in order to make up for the "gatekeeping white male elitism" indie rock and rock critics were known for during the woke erawhat? that makes no sense.
>>131528440yeah, i wrote that incorrectlyhistorically indie/rock critics and sites like pitchfork had reputation as elitist gatekeeperspitchfork got bought by conde naste in the mid 10s and shifted more towards poptimism around then, and there was a general shift towards this in music criticism and places like rym. this was around the "social justice", "gamergate" era
