In recent years, music writers have grown markedly less likely to issue denunciations of popular music and more likely to say they loved it. Why? In our centenary issue on the culture industry, Kelefa Sanneh writes about the “creeping niceness” in today’s music criticism and reminisces on the cranky critics of yore, from Statler and Waldorf on “The Muppet Show” to MTV’s Kurt Loder.
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