Backlash Against NY TIMES Music Critics

And that’s a good thing!!

Both Rick Beato and Ted Gioia have responded with a full court press rebuttle.

Highlighting how these pompous, IVY League as@h$les, made absolute fools of themselves.

Not one of them has any background in music. They aren’t qualified to even work in a record shop if any such thing even existed.

It’s worth reading Ted’s responses and Rick’s responses to the New York Times.

We don’t want these type of people in charge of deciding what is good art or not and cancelling artists.

I do believe one thing needs to be said that neither Ted or Rick highlighted. Maybe they know and weren’t willing to say it or it’s just obvious?

These are some Woke/leftists idiots who essentially called all white song writers basically drug/boozers with a guitar in their hands. Not only does Jay-Z not to deserve to be on a list with Paul Simon and Billy Joel, he likely does not deserve to be called a musician at all.

Ted’s response to the list by making his own list is behind a pay wall so I can’t share it.

But he made a public response to Rick’s video.

Rick Beato Versus the NY Times - by Ted Gioia

Your opinion on a piece of art must be informed. Understand something about structure. Harmony, rhythm and melody. And wouldn’t be a bad idea to have had some lessons in actually playing an instrument before you become a professional music critic.

These are the same minds that brought you borderless countries and Marxist Economics.

They are delusional individuals. If I ran a newspaper, I wouldn’t hire these people to be paper boys.

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… BINGO! on the observation. Not only do you have to “replace” White people you must also remove the existence of White art, music, literature. Everyone should know that anything coming out of the NYT particularly on Art, History, Music is always nothing but thinly veiled Social Engineering of one kind or another. Not just to single out the NYT on this charge it has been and it is still true of many other MSM publications as well (e.g. Time Magazine).

The NYT will be what is has always been. Don’t worry, I’m sure that Gioia’s response is not worth reading anyway.

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My bad. I should have introduced Ted. Ted is one of the good guys. They invited him to participate but he gave them the finger. He is the definition of non-establishment. He writes on how AI is destroying artists, the idiocrasy of MSM press. He’s kind of the go to observer of what is happening in music, art and culture the corruption of Hollywood and Music Industry. Rick has interviewed Ted twice on where music is headed.

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… at least there’s one good guy out there. :slight_smile:

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Stopped reading NYT articles on just about any/ every thing they print.
Their music section has been a bleek chapter for a long time, and I see theyre starting to fade fast on the literature as well.
this list was hard to read for many reasons; one being what Rick Beato points out as well; that even though you dont need degrees in music to make it or write about it, it would be nice to have some/any credibility to point to other than “NYT writer”.

The 30 greatest American songwriters is also a dying theme I think, as songwriting has changed a lot the past decades, going from a one man /one band cred thing to a plethora of people all getting creds for their input now.
You rarely see song credits from one person anymore.
Since everyone is working on multiple projects now it seems, you have to give people their creds, or theyll just stop working with you, and people as a currency has come up in value.

I mention this, because naming the 30 “best” ones ( Music is not a competition) is am increasingly more difficult task because of this.
So when I see them name “Bad Bunny” as one the 30 best song writers in America, I just have a hard time taking you serious.
First of all he´s Puerto Rican. Secondly; I doubt these NYT writers knows what he contributes to the writing creds.
Sadly NYT is good for nothing but whitewash genocide and war crimes these days.

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Unfortunately, the dying NY Times still has 100 million registered subscribers.

And even more unfortunate, the woke IVY league schools still receive approximately $4.6–6.4 billion in federal funding.

My name for the NYT is…
Her Majesty’s Rag.

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