Also, I only know of two magazines in Britain (musiclly). And the critics tend to side with the masses. The critics in the states rarely like anything popular unless it came out 30 years ago (back when they bashed it, yeah im looking at you rolling stone), therefore the critics are regarded as just another opinion here.
On top of that, whats super popular where I live isn't super popular in diffrent parts of the country. America is a strange sort of place to begin with culturally but the fact that you can ID a state by either being a "blues" state or a "jazz" state says more than enough about the music that comes in here.
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