Comes from The Guardian’s Mark Beaumont, in a blog post about Radiohead’s Kid A
By the mid-noughties, just like the mid-90s, alternative and mainstream were conjoined by a frothing mass media and shrinking major-label budgets – there seemed little distance between Kasier Chief and Sugababe, between Arctic Monkey and Crazy Frog. There was nowhere for an underground to be.
That really does speak wonders about the smallness of cultural bubble that “mainstream” music critics inhabit, doesn’t it? Just about all the music I love just simply doesn’t exist as far as they’re concerned.
I’d posted the first line in the comment thread, and it’s been removed by the moderators. So it looks like we’re dealing with a twit who dishes it out, but can’t take it.