Best Music Criticism Quotes

"Vogner's music is much better than it sounds."

"It's like one of the worst things I've ever heard... It sucks so hard, I love it."

"I reviewed basically every single single from this, starting off with 'I won't'... everyone was like, 'This single's amazing, they've come back, this is it, AJR show no growth as artist, Jack's attitude and disconnectivity with reality just got worse with every release.' Stop this chicanery."

"This song is legit catchy, kind of like the flu. You know it's probably not going to kill you, but that doesn't stop you from wishing for death every second you have to endure it."

"This is the rap critic reminding you that hey, all beefs should be squashed, but if you're gonna come at someone, better make sure your ass comes correct."

"Social media is a fantastic tool but, in my opinion, also one of the main reasons why a lot of music today has become very hollow."

"If I could summarize my issues with contemporary pop in one sentence: Too much production, not enough talent."

"You may not like the Jonas Brothers, but to imply that's all modern music has to offer betrays a deep lack of familiarity with the actual landscape of modern music."

"'See You Again' is maybe the best song he's ever written."

"I'm not here to mangle Mee or pander to anybody. If this is whack, I'm going to tell you, but if it's good, I'mma tell you too."

"It's really not that deep. Like, you may hate this song, but at the end of the day, to say it's degrading towards women and ending women empowerment, you've got to be a bit of a Sweeney Hut Jrs."

"If this is pop punk, it is the most derivative, lowest common denominator, and faux rebellious pop punk I have heard in my life."

"Kendrick didn't do that, he abandoned that which is why as much as I'm giving him props musically a lot of 'Mr. Morale' doesn't work."

"I think any music that proclaims itself as having absolutely no interest in being music is kind of like the most interesting music."

"I don't know anyone that likes him, I [ __ ] hate his music."

"People say he can't sing... a great singer in about a dozen different modes."

"The album feels like an intense acid trip, weird and captivating."

"If logic is pandering, everything he has is a song. Nobody is higher on mental health than me."

"I can't sit here and drag him for his lyrics when NBA young boy is one of the most popular rappers right now."

"Ed Sheeran's more recent songs have not been my favorite."

"You know, when I heard it, I don't think beans or Jadakiss' disses stack up to Ether."

"I find him more entertaining on that record than I have on any of his latest records... I just think it's so funny."

"I'm going to try and restrain myself here. I'm not the biggest fan to say the least."

"This is two-part; I think it's maybe his worst album, but it's still way better than most people's best."

"I think it finishes stronger than it starts."

"Drake is just still making this kind of shallow, boring, impersonal, and surface-level type of hip-hop R&B that doesn't really settle on a single sound at all."

"It's just so surface level that people aren't actually thinking about the music."

"Nobody wants to be like, 'Hey, your album was wack.' Yeah, they want to hear, 'Oh, it's not for me.'"

"Man, their songs are awful. Break me off a piece of that funk, that's disgusting."

"It's a song that needed to explode a little more to fully sell it."

"Instant classics are a myth. Only time can tell whether or not an album is or isn't."

"With that, I mean, I understand, but it's the first, the first lyrics that you hear on it. I think the first song should have been like, 'Aurora.'"

"This album sounded like you sat down, you had an idea of what you wanted to do."

"J is killing this, like that could be 16 Jay Jay fits in a pocket he never seems corny never seems like he's doing too much."

"The appeal of Fantano was that he brought back the art of reviewing music for the modern age."

"I feel like 'Gucci Gang' is one of the genius songs of our generation."

"I think overall he's just, like, one of the most respected lyricist and artists of this generation, period."

"Fiona Apple continues to be a gold standard... Fetch the Bolt Cutters."

"In a world of brain dead fast food auto tuned cookie cutter sample driven music, Eddie's philosophy reigns over us like a spirit in the night."

"This is ironic. What the [__] are you not a believer? This [song] is a banger, quote unquote real musicians have been quiet ever since this came out."

"In utero essentially is a, you know, is a flip middle finger to everybody who accuse them of being, you know, pop sellouts."

"Rock bands forgot that music is entertainment. Audiences want larger-than-life people doing larger-than-life things to take them away from their problems and blow off steam."

"Is this music effective? Suddenly it forces people to ask not just if the music is good or bad, but why."

"I feel like if people extend themselves and ask you to hang out like they're extending themselves to you and I feel bad being like no."

"Cole calling Kendrick's music trash and trying to claim Kendrick fell off when I'm pretty sure he just had his most successful tour of all time, it was just insane, it was insane."

"Stick to music. Do I hate fantano? No, I just think right now and for the last few months he's been acting like a [ __ ] terminally online crybaby 40-Year-Old Virgin."

"He's not saying Kendrick's dead, we're just like... see my thing goes back to the fact that Kendrick has two good albums and one amazing album."

"The freestyles in particular go hard as hell. If you listen to the freestyles on this album and you say that Megan doesn't have a great flow, I want some of the crack you were smoking my friend."

"The rap sections were well placed because there was time to sink into the flow and add lyricism and depth."

"Great lyrics, very technically founded and powerful vocals, sensational instrumentals, and then add to that super smart songwriting."

"We could talk about an album seriously from three years ago or two years ago that didn't get the love that deserve because that doesn't mean like the project never happened."

"It was one of the best of the album, extremely powerful, it really hit."

"I'm not going to try to be unbiased when it comes to music that talks about certain sh*t."

"Final bar line is like if you took that old noft approach to doing right by a body of music and applied it to the entire history of Final Fantasy."

"Nobody wants to hear a copy and paste version of their favorite artist."

"Sometimes music and whatever is not ahead of its time, it's just when it came out, people were just so quick to hate on it and trash on it."

"It's a lot of different weird flavors all coming together on this one track and actually like kind of the sad tone and the wit of the lyrics I guess I would say on the song too."

"My Toyota Gazoo Formula One team would be made up of Mick Schumacher, Kamui Kobayashi, and Toshiki Oyu as reserve test driver."

"The album is not defined by apeshit okay apeshit is one record amongst eight others that stands alone everything else is beautiful it's a it's a really good album."

"So the Rolling Stone in all of their infinites rock wisdom compiled a list in 2015."

"This [___] music now, now we have to hear what he's talking about."

"I've actually enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I was going to."

"The traditionalist argument against Old Town Road is unfair."

"I didn't listen to nearly as much music as a music critic would, nor do I judge music like a music critic would."

"She's so talented, she's so raw like she kind of tells you exactly how it isn't in the lyrics and I love that because I feel like that's how music should be."

"Slowing down the music doesn't necessarily ruin the tunes mind you but it is less accurate which is the problem here."

"This album puts that to bed for me. I don't want to hear no more about Jump Man Jump Man Jump Man."

"One [ __ ] song and the reason why, in my opinion, is that because there are tons of industry-backed and supported songs that are way [ __ ] worse than Friday."

"Is post grunge truly terrible or is it maybe better than the taste makers and gatekeepers would care to admit?"

"So in the comments below, let us know some albums you really don't like at all except for that one really great song that's on there."

"So if you're hot, you can drop garbage, you can sh*t in a mic, and it will still do well."

"A reminder that you should really wait as late as possible to do these album of the year lists."

"Every song was starting to sound exactly the same."

"arguing that rhythmic complexity proves hip hop's value means conceding that if it wasn't complex it wouldn't have value, and that's a terrible way to think about music."

"The music in 15's been called excellent, try, lackluster, amazing, and not very good all at the same time."

"I do kind of wish that it was a little bit more innovative than it is because it feels to me like it just sort of ended up being the same thing as metalcore in gent and all these other kind of really repetitive backward looking genres."

"I feel like people are so quick to say, 'Man, that's trash rap,' and they don't recognize the skillset in it."

"Rockism: idolizing the authentic old legend while mocking the latest pop star."

"But you know what? When a year can give you Elton John and Pete funk, there's no making excuses for turds like the ones I'm about to reveal to you."

"Now, for the record, I think 'Convoy' is many, many times worse than 'Disco Duck'. It's just this god-awful, horrible mess of hokey music and incomprehensible trucker lingo."

"Game is a dope rapper. There's some very good bars that are laced throughout this diss track."

"I'm a big believer in the good fight, but I do get tired of the radio playing the same songs." - Sparrow

"I think that's how people felt about the division record though. It was like this record feels like a gimmick as opposed to a classic R&B record that a JD would be attached to."

"What is BTS's best album? In this essay, I will interrogate the value, potential, and shortcomings of stan criticism."

"Any [expletive] listening to R. Kelly in 2022 is a [expletive] scumbag, yo."

"If women want respect, they gotta stop listening to ass-shaking music."

"Critics called folklore Taylor's best album yet."

"Let us confine this year's bad music into the dustbin of history."

"I don't care enough about the band, I just am certain that this random singer from this random fucking rock band in the 90s is like a trans person working for Satan."

"If I learned anything from years of putting my opinion out there on the Internet, it's that music fans don't like hearing opinions that challenge their own."

"To me, oh man and and this ties into the whole even though I'm not a big believer in the whole Kanye's a genius like I don't I don't run to that like everybody else does yeah this feels like he created a whole new genre."

"It's anthemic chorus and mature lyrics about Eminem being a better man in beef, mainly his beef with Ja Rule, are great and well-executed."

"Kendrick's weakest is better than many artists' best."

"Eminem to say that he's not an anomaly is just a lie."

"These are some of the most boring, bland, basic white paste ass dull albums ever pressed."

"Putting a hedonistic pop rap modern hybrid thing on this album in particular makes zero fucking sense."

"I think it's probably Drake's most toxic album."

"The three-song run of Rich Flex Major Distribution and on BS is one of the coolest three-track runs of the year."

"This is the best track of this wave... for having such a great theme executing it near perfectly and a fantastic layout this is the best track of this wave."

"Is there a Lonzo Ball diss track on there? Does he bring the heat for Lonzo? Wooo, now that was seven songs and that was seven. So if it was long, it feels longer. Maybe he may have a more Lonzo diss, he got bars for me though."

"One of the most emotionally cutting records of the year."

"I believe that the music I heard is a killer. It's a killer of hope. It's a killer of spirit."

"1988's Tender Prey... one of the most brilliant bleak depressingly poetic songs I've ever heard."

"Every time somebody shows me their music, I'm thinking in my head, 'Nope,' or, 'You sound like you're biting blank person's flow,' you're rapping exactly like this person. That's weird."

"You can have an opinion on something without having a master's degree in musical theory."

"This track is titled 'It's Okay to Cry' and is just a beautiful, triumphant, quivering, strange piece of anthemic pop music."

"It's like no one can groove with a tool lyrical. There's room for improvement."

"Rolling Stone listing 'Like a Rolling Stone' as the greatest song ever written is kind of self-marketing, to be completely honest."

"Drake spits some of the most talked about lines on the entire album."

"I mean, if Snoop gets off, 'Ain't No Fun' is essentially a song about gang rape. Wait, what? Damn, damn right."

"It's a weird record, it's an odd record, at times painfully nerdy, but it is a cool little LP."

"Let me know if you are having the same issues with Logic that I am when it comes to listening to his music and kind of digesting all the poppiness, all the, all in my opinion, fluff of peace, love, and positivity."

"It's a very consistent, very cohesive record."

"Even the Black Parade was ugly 2006 but... yeah."

"Juice WRLD for sounds Wayne in the world in today's rapper is his skill is the leap but it's a lot of niggas - that's exactly you feel me in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king."

"I feel like she was on another level with this song and this music video she feels like a weapon out okay zoom in zoom out okay."

"Lyrics about white powder, money, girls, sex, and violence are what hip-hop is, and it's for people who love it. Criticizing its dark spots is like criticizing peppers for being spicy."

"The problem lies with the genres of music that get an automatic and universal pass."

"It might be the best album of the year in any single genre."

"Stupid Love is the best song from Chromatica... by every metric of music." - Mon

"It's a great story and a great rap song yes but it's not the best um Story Ever Told in rap the best story ever told in rap is actually tied and it's um an opinion gave you power this is it."

"That's pretty legendary as far as musicians go, it's like the ultimate album review."

"Yo, when you make music, if everybody don't like it, how you get mad when somebody don't vocalize that they don't like it?"

"If you put that next to 'Let's get it on,' I mean let's just remember that the Ed Sheeran song stinks."

"This is considered to be by many sort of like a top 10 top 20 hip-hop album ever."

"The easy conclusion to make about their downfall is that they were [ __ ] lame."

"The audacity of that album, which every song is that's all it is."

"This album feels like a reflection of all of that. Killer Mike and LP have been raw since day one, making a career rapping about the hypocrisy and injustice that a lot of other people are just now waking up to."

"The album 'Tago Mago' is widely considered to be the greatest synthesis of their sound, one of the most groundbreaking albums in the krautrock genre."

"Nobody wants to go out here and kill a person but rap music makes it seem that it's okay."

"There's literally nothing wrong with this theme, it sounds exactly like it should and that's what a good video game soundtrack is all about."

"No tears left to cry is the best single from this album."

"This song just sounds dull and lifeless. I don't want this passive-aggressive bullshit."

"As I watch her like get older, it's fun to watch like I thought her music was just gonna be like the what I would call horseshit of today right."

"Contrarians nationwide proclaim this to be the best Radiohead album and they're wrong, but it's still a damn solid album."

"Sure, it doesn't have the undeniable influence of an OK Computer or a Kid A, but to say this album was still influential over the alternative musical sphere would be a big fat lie."

"Michael sounds better than the weekend obviously because he's better."

"Remember to be critical, not cynical, of the music you listen to."

"Donald Trump Donald Duck what the [ __ ] is the difference." - Brad taste in music

"The song was nonsensical and repetitive, the music video itself was strange, and many found Rebecca's singing to be subpar. Yet, the song managed to be catchy and would spread across the internet."

"This Vaughan Williams fourth and the Tchaikovsky Fantasia with the New York Philharmonic, now this, this is gorgeous and it's in stereo. The English critics were always that way, goodness, all right."

"That album not getting recognition to me is a crime in music. It's a crime."

"I feel like every so often there's a band that people just choose to hate."

"The way he talked about women in his music was just less objectifying."

"I think every time better music started being made, you looked back and like, man, that was really trash."

"I've been reviewed by the Dean of American rock critics, Mr. Robert Christgau."

"We tended to value heaviness over tastiness, feel over polish, invention over refinement, risk-takers and originators more than technicians."

"Music criticism and writing should be more than just about whether or not something is good."

"If you are free to say whatever you want to say in your music, people are free to say whatever they want to say about your music."

"If you ever have a knee-jerk reaction to a pop song that you hate, try and figure out exactly why you hate it."

"Critics have described their fusion of vulgar absurdist comedy with rock music as 'mock rock'."

"Keep in mind that Drake's weaker songs are a lot of artists' best songs."

"If you're going to be a music critic, like, enjoy the music."

"This is not an endorsement of the song, the artist, or the genre as a whole, but an attempt to create discussion and encourage discernment while listening to music."

"Everybody has told me that this is such a bad album, and it's such a good like girl power album, and that's honestly what Little Mix is all about."

"I still don't necessarily think that there is a 10 out of 10 album, but of course, people have different ways that they view music."

"If this is Led Zeppelin's weakest album, and the rest are true masterpieces at least on one level or another, what does that say about this magnificent band?"

"Remember to be critical and not cynical of the music you listen to."

"A review should function more as a defined, explained opinion than advice to serve the music industry's marketing arm."

"The music that's coming out right now that people are classifying as freestyle, it's garbage. There's no melody, there's no lyrics, there's no soul to the music."