mark >> Everyone has a right to their opinion and discussing what we like and don't like is fine. What I have a problem with is people who like to point out how she did it 'wrong' or what she 'should have done'. Someone else posted that it isn't the critics job to force their own vision on a work of art. Their job is to try and evaluate whether or not the artist was successful in creating the vision that the *artist* was aiming for. The critic also should comment on the quality of the execution of the various components - in the case of recorded music, the sound quality, the skill of the playing or singing and the integrity of the whole....But I really do get annoyed with critics whopublish in newspapers or magazines or give oral reviews on tv or radio who are much more concerned with 'skewering' and making witty, scathing remarks than they are with actually doing any kind of real analysis or constructive criticism. <<<
very well put mark & i wholeheartedly agree...i love reading a review that is done intelligently even if the review is not that positive- a good reviewer can always find some element to praise even if they do not like the work in general...unfortunately there are some 'professional' reviewers out there who give the profession a bad name...their words show them to be motivated by a need to be noticed for their own writing skills at the expense of providing a real review (this can be seen in both positive & negative reviews)... i remember one reviewer back in his early days (he has improved greatly through the years) who used to pack his nasty reviews with as many big & obscure words as he could find ... he was so overblown & arrogant & it appeared as if he was writing the way he thought a reviewer was supposed to be, rather than actually writing articulately or even very skillfully.... ******************************************** Kate Bennett: www.katebennett.com Sponsored by Polysonics/Atlantis Sound Labs Over the Moon- "bringing the melancholy world of twilight to life almost like magic" All Music Guide ********************************************
