“we thought the whole music world was loosening up, that online discourse would foster a new eclecticism of taste and an almost unlimited range of discourse.
Like pretty much everyone else’s hopes about the internet, ours have come back to bite us in the ass. What we’ve gotten instead is indeed a click-based media economy, in which publications do try to produce as many headlines about a handful of big names” https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/taylor-swift-pitchfork-new-yorker-music-reviews-poptimism.html