Christgau
Response
Christgau’s review on The Rolling Stones’ album, A Bigger Bang is very interesting,
specifically with his metaphorical phrases. His first sentence of his review
states, “Old rockers make too many promises they can’t keep”, which caught my
attention because he has me wondering, what the “old rockers” had promised. Christgau
claims how The Rolling Stones are going downhill due to their age and lack of
production of great music. His writing is not great journalism because his
review is a little bit out of synch. With the first paragraph, Robert Christgau
makes you believe he does not like The Rolling Stones. As the review continues,
he does not make you visualize what their album is about. Instead all he writes
are just words with no meaning. “The lyrics aren’t bad either” he says, but
meanwhile we need to be vividly described about what is going on within the
lyrics. His reviews are not accurate and very opinionated. He is balanced with
notion of not putting emotion into this reviews. One thing I do like, is his
spunk. He seems like he doesn’t care about anyone’s opinion besides himself.
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