Comments on: Let’s Keep Talking About “Let’s Talk About Love”

By: There’s never been a time when… « Writing About Music is Like Dancing About Architecture

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:51:19 +0000

[...] “… There’s never been a time when there hasn’t been at least a significant chunk of critics praising pop, and if there’s more now it doesn’t feel like there’s much more — only that there’s a (faulty) language to describe it. If there is a movement, I think it’s one that’s left a good deal of the readership of criticism behind, but that’s another discussion.” – Tom Ewing, “Let’s Keep Talking About Let’s Talk About Love,” Freaky Trigger, January 29, 2008 [link] [...]

By: JD

JD — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:19:55 +0000

Still talking…or, at least, posting relevant A/V whilst reading:

http://appendixa.net/tag/lets-talk-about-love-c-wilson/

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:28:27 +0000

“boring default position” — just try reading the (non-essay) Pazz and Jop comments this year.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:22:26 +0000

Carl made a good point in that exchange (and a lone anonymous commenter kind of unintentionally backed up) concerning his audience — and I guess this book does make a lot of sense to someone who, maybe like Carl c. 1998, simply hasn’t explored why they might not give (“an artist like”) Celine the time of day (I recommended it to said anonymous commenter). But my question would then be where they go with that — to me it means you’ve finally done what you probably should have done in the first place, and we’re back at square one waiting for good writing and good arguments, in whatever form that takes. I think Carl’s right that there’s a certain contemptuous tone that’s pretty well played out in criticism, but that’s just because too many people use it as a boring default position — contempt can be very powerful!