airgordon:

It got harder to think and write about music this year, once I realized it was easier to get paid for opinions that came from the middle rather than my own myopic corner of the world. I suppose it would have been easier to stay unpublished, but not with bills to pay and professional connections dangling in the wind. I tried not to write disingenuously; I did enjoy the Katy Perry concert, embarrassingly enough, but there was the sense that it was necessary to detach a little bit in order to find the greater meaning for an audience past myself.

A cross we all must bear. But not necessarily a bad one. Embarrassment is an emotion that I think has no value in the critical toolbox.

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   bad one. Embarrassment...think has no value...critical...

10. rawkblog said: Glad you love this record. How familiar are you with the back catalog?
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