BOLD SPICE: A Watershed Moment in Music Criticism
Most of you (Canadians), I'm sure, are aware of the fact that Exclaim! magazine is the most respected and trustworthy and free source of intelligent and innovative music criticism our fair country has to offer
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Thanks for being such a good sport about this.
I hope it's clear that you were absolutely a scapegoat here. I really don't think that Exclaim is a good magazine on the whole. That's why I hadn't read it in a long time. Picking up that last issue, all the reasons for my dislike of the magazine (which I won't go into because really I doubt that anyone cares) became very evident. By the time I got to the reviews section, I was distinctly annoyed by "Canada's Music Authority".
So your review just kind of acted as a screen onto which I projected all the negativity that Exclaim! generated within me.
I really could have chosen any number of other pieces in the magazine to write about. Yours was just an easy target, mostly due to its Beck-centricity (I clearly find "the cult of Beck" pretty silly). The point is, I wrote about your review not because it was exceptional but because it was wholly representative.
Anyway, it was written in the spirit of fun, so I'm glad you were amused. I think I need to go back to avoiding Exclaim! because reading it obviously makes me a very mean person. I've figured out once and for all that it's not my cup of tea.
Thanks for responding and for being nice, Vish,
TS
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