A good critic is authoritative; passionate; suprising; open minded; entertaining; interesting; well-informed; committed; original; free thinking; indepedent.
A bad critic is uncaring; uncommitted; predictable; ignorant; negative; a show off; too fashion conscious; unoriginal; clichéd; too susceptible to hype.
(Adjectives taken from an unpublished survey of record buyers' use of record reviews that I carried out in 2006.)
(Simon Frith, taken from The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music, p. 280)
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Monday, August 23, 2010
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