Unrelated to this post, but something I was thinking about when I was on my bicycle earlier: how much does music criticism matter these days? For our parents' generation, the imprimatur of Rolling Stone was a big deal; our cohort paid close attention to Pitchfork. Is there a present-day consortium of tastemakers that commands the same level of influence? Or has it become a question of following a certain ten or twenty or a hundred YouTube or Twitter accounts?
I haven’t spoken to my students directly about it, but I hear a lot of Anthony Fantano in the way they talk about music. I suspect there are other big voices on youtube/twitch/tiktok, but i’m more plugged into the musician end of that ecosystem these days
Unrelated to this post, but something I was thinking about when I was on my bicycle earlier: how much does music criticism matter these days? For our parents' generation, the imprimatur of Rolling Stone was a big deal; our cohort paid close attention to Pitchfork. Is there a present-day consortium of tastemakers that commands the same level of influence? Or has it become a question of following a certain ten or twenty or a hundred YouTube or Twitter accounts?
I haven’t spoken to my students directly about it, but I hear a lot of Anthony Fantano in the way they talk about music. I suspect there are other big voices on youtube/twitch/tiktok, but i’m more plugged into the musician end of that ecosystem these days