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Music writers used to have a reputation for being much crankier than the average listener. What happened? Plus:

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Writers are increasingly expected not just to take pop music seriously but to celebrate it—or else. Illustration by Hudson Christie

David Remnick

Editor , The New Yorker

Critics at the magazine have a history of not pulling punches. In 1939, Russell Maloney called “The Wizard of Oz” “a stinkeroo.” “I did not care for Agatha Christie,” Edmund Wilson wrote in 1944, aft

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