Saturday, March 22, 2025

Lizzo furious over ‘lazy’ criticism of her new music

Lizzo has expressed her fury over criticism of her new music - insisting negative reviews of her song 'Still Bad' are "lazy".

Latest Posts

‘Some of the most exciting things could still be yet to come…’ Singer Kim Wilde doesn’t want biopic – yet

Kim Wilde isn't interested in having a biopic on her life for now - because the "most exciting things could still be...

Lizzo, Lil Nas X and Kim Petras to headline Outloud Music Festival

Lizzo, Lil Nas X and Kim Petras will headline the Outloud Music Festival at Los Angeles’ WeHo Pride. The...

Jessie J wrote three albums worth of music in two years

Jessie J has three albums worth of music waiting to be released. The 36-year-old star's last album, 'R.O.S.E', was...

Bastille announce From All Sides 2025 arena tour

Bastille have announced the 2025 ‘From All Sides’ arena tour. Dan Smith and co will perform songs from the...

Martin Scorsese bemoans the box office influence

Martin Scorsese has bemoaned the obsession with box office figures in the movie business.
The Academy Award-winning director has penned an essay in The Hollywood Reporter in which he’s hit out at "research firms like Cinemascore" and "aggregators" like Rotten Tomatoes, claiming they have clouded the thinking of movie fans.
He wrote: "Box office is the undercurrent in almost all discussions of cinema, and frequently it’s more than just an undercurrent.
"The brutal judgmentalism that has made opening weekend grosses into a bloodthirsty spectator sport seems to have encouraged an even more brutal approach to film reviewing.
"I’m talking about market research firms like Cinemascore, which started in the late ’70s, and online ‘aggregators’ like Rotten Tomatoes, which have absolutely nothing to do with real film criticism."
Scorsese, 74, said that these organisations are guilty of reducing the role of a moviemaker to that of "a content manufacturer".
The Hollywood icon’s essay continued: "They rate a picture the way you’d rate a horse at the racetrack, a restaurant in a Zagat’s guide, or a household appliance in Consumer Reports.
"They have everything to do with the movie business and absolutely nothing to do with either the creation or the intelligent viewing of film. The filmmaker is reduced to a content manufacturer and the viewer to an unadventurous consumer.
"These firms and aggregators have set a tone that is hostile to serious filmmakers – even the actual name Rotten Tomatoes is insulting.
"And as film criticism written by passionately engaged people with actual knowledge of film history has gradually faded from the scene, it seems like there are more and more voices out there engaged in pure judgmentalism, people who seem to take pleasure in seeing films and filmmakers rejected, dismissed and in some cases ripped to shreds."

Latest Posts

‘Some of the most exciting things could still be yet to come…’ Singer Kim Wilde doesn’t want biopic – yet

Kim Wilde isn't interested in having a biopic on her life for now - because the "most exciting things could still be...

Lizzo, Lil Nas X and Kim Petras to headline Outloud Music Festival

Lizzo, Lil Nas X and Kim Petras will headline the Outloud Music Festival at Los Angeles’ WeHo Pride. The...

Jessie J wrote three albums worth of music in two years

Jessie J has three albums worth of music waiting to be released. The 36-year-old star's last album, 'R.O.S.E', was...

Bastille announce From All Sides 2025 arena tour

Bastille have announced the 2025 ‘From All Sides’ arena tour. Dan Smith and co will perform songs from the...

Don't Miss

A$AP Rocky performs unreleased tracks hanging from chopper at Rolling Loud California 2025

A$AP Rocky performed unreleased tracks from a helicopter during his epic headline set at Rolling Loud California. The 36-year-old...

KT Tunstall thinks technology can be ‘amazing’ for the music industry

KT Tunstall thinks technology can be "amazing" for the music industry. The 49-year-old singer has written the score for...

Will Smith is ‘itchin’ to release new album

Will Smith is "itchin" to release his first new album in more than 20 years. The rapper has been...

Chappell Roan wanted to ‘honour’ herself by writing a country song

Chappell Roan wanted to "honour" herself by writing a country song. The 27-year-old singer is known for pop hits...

Lily Allen is ‘surprised’ that Charli XCX is not headlining Glastonbury: ‘I don’t understand…’

Lily Allen is "surprised" that Charli XCX is not headlining Glastonbury, The 39-year-old singer is delighted that US pop...

Stay in touch

To be updated with all the latest news, offers and special announcements.