Actually go ahead and give me an example of a critic bait album that flopped and why

my mistake i remember there being haters

You gonna need more than a personal opinion for such an objective statement about an album that beloved with so many classic songs on it

The big day chance the rapper

nah all eyez on me has classics i didn’t say it’s bad but it’s a good album that’s upheld as a seminal classic if it was 12 tracks it would be top 2 of his

and why

off top the big day by chance i gotta think it over tho im legit in a zoom meeting with my camera off

Always had this problem in school i dont wanna explain but i know im right

RMR feels like critic bait music (still like that Rascal song though) but i can’t think of many artists who give that vibe

you could say an artist who tries to appeal to another artist’s fanbase with their music is technically critic bait following the logic in your post though

so someone like YBN Nahmir, whose entire marketing tactic was having meme pages post “is this the new Tay-K?”, could be considered making critic bait music

you have chance doing those weird grunts and the different voices and some choir in the back while he’s talking about family and stuff which nirmally makes critics go “wow such soulful production, a man being vulnerable 10/0” but ultimately everyone s*** on it

No I’m asking why did they s*** on it?

that’s more biting and riding waves which is more frowned upon than bait

Was he trying make that for critics

Felt like he just ignored everyone’s advice for that album and just made whatever he felt like while in a honeymoon phase of his relationship

Feels like the music he’s making now would align more closely with “critic bait”

The only common denominator between all the albums listed ITT is that the artist was actually aiming for a theme, cohesive listen, etc.

because all of it was a veneer on an album that ultimately wasn’t enjoyable to listen to

So you’re saying Chance made a bad album and people didn’t enjoy it?

music that sounds like you arent smart enough to listen to it

yeah it’s got critic bait and they didn’t bite idk what point you’re trying to make

But in my honest opinion when i hear critic bait i think of him Childish Gambino and Mr Morale the album

also doesn’t help that he just glossed over the fact that white people were racist as s*** to anyone darker than him during that era

How old were you when the musical debuted? That was like the main selling point of it, it definitely wasn’t glossed over it was quite literally the crux of the musicals existence. And it’s also touched on plenty throughout the musical itself.

Is Jpegmafia considered critic bait?

This doesn’t even hold up as a “critic bait” thing tho

They say Future isn’t critic bait but a majority of his albums also follow this

i told someone i liked MBDTF more than mr morale and got told i was too stupid to understand mr morale like okay mr redditor

lmao exactly

what do you call an artist that makes "critic bait" but has absolutely zero following, or only a super small core fangroup?