{"id":2009594,"date":"2025-09-09T19:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2009594"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:11:01","slug":"do-good-critics-have-to-be-good-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/do-good-critics-have-to-be-good-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Good Critics Have to Be Good Artists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ySRQQbVtCeE?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>On some of my poetry review videos, I get commenters who tell me that I should write a poem of my own if I&#8217;m such an expert. In a similar fashion, the Critical Drinker made a pretty terrible movie. But does that invalidate him as a critic? What about critics like Roger Ebert and Harold Bloom who also made subpar pieces of art? Join me in this video essay as we unpack criticism and artistry in the modern day, and answer the question, do good critics have to be good artists?<\/p>\n<p>Submit your work for the second channel: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdTNSXO3rHpLpahGT5t4SdDQDLHimS9fqPE6CD3LChAsULGPw\/viewform?usp=sf_link<br \/>\nP.O. Box 901989 Sandy, UT 84090<br \/>\nVODs channel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0YeEVZLQSerJnqtAdkq7g<br \/>\nPatreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/RoughestDrafts<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/roughestdrafts99\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoughestDrafts<br \/>\nEmail: jrwrites1999@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>Music:<br \/>\nSpring Sometimes by Sugoi<br \/>\nKuronosu Jikan by Sugoi<\/p>\n<p>#books #book #creativewriting #literature #writing #poetry #poem #poems #reading #criticaldrinker #thecriticaldrinker #rogerebert #genesiskel #haroldbloom #moviecritic #moviecriticism<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ySRQQbVtCeE\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On some of my poetry review videos, I get commenters who tell me that I should write a poem of my own if I&#8217;m such an expert. In a similar fashion, the Critical Drinker made a pretty terrible movie. But does that invalidate him as a critic? What about critics like Roger Ebert and Harold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757445060_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}