Someone (Zappa? Van Halen? I don’t recall who) said that music critics often write about themselves more than the musician/album they are reviewing anyway.
“...music critics ...”
“Music Critics” are typically people who can’t or didn’t cut it in the real world, so they spend their times ripping apart people who can.
If I want to hear someone’s music, I’ll buy it and make my own mind up on it. Something either sings to your heart, or it doesn’t - and you know which is which. The way a particular phrasing on a guitar, a vocal, the rhythm of a drummer’s beat, or a violin solo grabs you is unique to every person’s soul and it moves them differently.
No one needs a “music critic” to tell them which way the wind blows.
Pretty much, no one needs a “music critic” for anything.
“Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.” - Frank Zappa
Zappa also said the worst thing that happened to music was when the young guys started running the record companies, because they thought that because they were young, they better knew what young people wanted to hear, as opposed to the old cigar-chomping guys who said, “Who knows what it is, put it out there and see if it sells.”