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Video: Real-Time Music Criticism On YouTube

HowToListenToMusic provides a glimpse into how real-time music criticism might work. This critic has taken to PowerPoint like slides that analyze the song while we listen. It was enough to. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/12/video-real-time-music-criticism-on-youtube.html]

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HowToListenToMusic provides a glimpse into how real-time music criticism might work. This critic has taken to PowerPoint like slides that analyze the song while we listen. It was enough to make me listen to Ke$ha's "Your Love Is My Drug" against my will, asI grew curious as to what they'll say. The reviewer is semi-serious, with a little bit of snarkiness for taste. This makes for a series of YouTube videos that are worth a glance – even if you disagree with the critic. It's interesting to see "music criticism" – if that's what you call this – being repackaged for the YouTube generation. Take a look:

(via NPR)