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Thread #139210   Message #3190944
Posted By: Jack Campin
19-Jul-11 - 05:06 PM
Thread Name: Writing folk music reviews
Subject: RE: Writing folk music reviews
In what way did reviewers who, you appear to agree, were just doing their jobs in pointing out the shortcomings in the music they were reviewing, "deserve" to be ignored?

Because those shortcomings were irrelevant to the people Oasis were speaking to.

Rock and pop journalism can be ickily self-serving, but it does usually get the concept that what the punters identify with isn't technical excellence for its own sake.