Blonde frank ocean album forest7/9/2023 ![]() (And no, it's not you: Prom comes earlier every year.)Īt its worst, this exercise distills the smarmiest aspects of music criticism: it can be overly academic, pedantic, insistent on the false belief that that which is popular cannot also hold artistic value. In the year-end list, some albums get to be Prom Queen and King. ![]() ![]() Yes, as each calendar year draws to a close, critics around the world look back at the albums said year bestowed upon us and pronounce (to the delight/anger of perhaps the most opinionated subset of internet commenter - the music blog reader) that certain albums are just much, much better than other albums. When Benjamin Franklin uttered his famous line about death and taxes being the only sure things in life, he apparently forgot to consult 18th-century music journalists - because they surely would've told him to add "year-end lists."
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