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Year-end best-of lists flatten a whole decade into whatever charted loudest The personal essay about a dead parent's favorite album is a genre of its own The difference between a review and a press release is a critic willing to say no Who gets to decide when a genre is dead — the critics or the artists who move on? Pitchfork's scoring system shaped a generation of how we talk about albums Reviewers who admit they only listened once shouldn't be trusted Should a database tag genre or leave it to the listener? Music journalism keeps shrinking as trade press folds into PR Label signings and departures rarely make headlines anymore unless the artist is already huge A five-star review can't save a record that nobody streams Album reviews written by fans read like blurbs Good music writing should make you hear the song again rather than just feel something Musician interviews are where the quotable lines actually come from Why do we still argue about whether critics should rate reissues? Rock criticism built a canon and popular music studies spent decades arguing with it

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