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To: SeekAndFind

Critics laughed and sneered; yet audiences were moved to tears. How to explain this?

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Critics also hated Led Zeppelin, The Beatles etc...

Critics naturally try to justify their life work, which involves looking at or listening to entertainment, by building it up to seem to be something deep and meaningful. It ain’t. The ridiculous over intellectualization of stupid pretentious crap is often the result.


26 posted on 11/15/2013 4:16:10 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: TalBlack

Well the definition of a critic is someone who see’s how it’s done, knows how it’s done but can’t do it themselves.


37 posted on 11/15/2013 4:27:08 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: TalBlack

“Critics also hated Led Zeppelin, The Beatles etc...”

I don’t remember who, but I recall someone once said if you only bought records that got good reviews in Rolling Stone you would end up with the most obscure record collection in the world.


58 posted on 11/15/2013 5:29:09 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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