“Write a better song, or songs, or shut up.”
What a stupid response. I can’t criticize a song without the ability to write a better one? Can I not criticize a book, or car, or dentist, or mayonnaise, or anything else unless I can do it better?
Not you, but authors like the one of the original article- I mean “critics”, yeah. I loath writers who gripe about how things used to be better in general, and in regards to the arts in particular. Those who can, do, those who can’t teach, those who can’t do or even teach write criticism.
There’s plenty of good music these days, just not on mainstream radio.