“Kate Bush gets a pat on the head for Hounds of Love, but not before Christgau reprimands her for referencing Tennyson: “To be a Romantic with a capital R in 1986… is deliberately to cultivate a sensibility whose time you know perfectly well has passed.”

That’s…not a reprimand.

Should we direct her to Prindle’s Tori Amos reviews? I still laugh at those.

Of course “cancel culture mentality” isn’t just a right-wing myth–it wasn’t even a myth back in the days of David Mamet’s Oleanna (which I had the slight displeasure of re-reading recently–good Lord is that thing contrived!) or Politically Incorrect Bedtime Stories. But is anyone going to tell her that Christgau is an 82 year old unemployed blogger who hasn’t had any “power” in decades now?