critics praise things for more than just concept. like you can have an album that conceptually is a great idea. but in execution the songs just arent really that great together for various reasons or doesnt really appeal to the editors at whatever blog for whatever. collective conscious plays a part in all art and whats received well by a generation, including critics. so if youre in 2020 making music like for instance....
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that would collectively be in bad taste because the collective values arent the same as that generation thematically and the music isnt really the vibe a lot of people are tuned into, even recently Lana Del Ray gets heat for her music portraying women in to submissive of a role, the less she does this, the better her music has been received collectively. if a blog like CoS praised this, theyd be cancelled and seen as misogynistic. doesnt mean there arent people making songs like this currently somewhere in a basement. but it most likely wont resonate with a lot of people in this generation because its too far outside of the collective consciousness
but all art is subjective. thats why personally as a music artist i dont pay attention to what critics say or have said about my work. i mean its cool when they like youre stuff. but a lot of the time theyre wrong, like theres tons of stuff that initially got average or low ratings. but then later they went back and changed the score because of the cultural impact it had. they can be very pretentious as well, like a lot of indie and experimental stuff they praise really high is pretentious and the artist is broke because its not selling well. but critics love it because its something different to try and write about, i like some of it because it can present unique ideas, even if not executed in the most effective way. but the people are the ones you want to please imo more than critics. critical praise wont pay your bills
sometimes though theyre dead on and they understood a timeless masterpiece during its time but thats rare. because you need time to tell if something is timeless. also sometimes theyre dead on when something is low quality, usually more in that realm. though Ed Sheeran is constantly shit on by critics but hes yearly the most played artist on streaming services so. his music is bland though i agree lol
