{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Narwhal (narwhal)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-15 03:48:28 UTC","author_name":"Narwhal (narwhal)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/narwhal","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/3936392","html":"@scriba<\/span><\/a><\/span> True, but it's only through the vast, if sometimes apprehensive, expansion of one's palate that they will refine their critical bias. Plus consuming and discussing media you aren't fond of in a healthy manner can help put what you are fond of into a better frame of reference, right?

But you're right, re-listening to and reviewing works that I didn't explicitly love for the sake of giving them a less than sheer excellent score is pretty silly. I guess I just don't my writing to go into a slump, you know? I definitely prefer praising the media I love a lot<\/i> more than criticizing the media I don't, and pretty much any review I have written so far has been for an album I want<\/i> to discuss in some capacity, but I suppose I'd still like to give my writing variety to improve it. Or at the very least I don't want to get too repetitive with my material, the odd time in a blue moon I do put a write up out anyway."}