The Kelly Conversations: Gen Y music critics Simon Vozick-Levinson and David Greenwald WBEZ

Ahead of R. Kelly headlining Pitchfork Music Festival, WBEZ's Jim DeRogatis conducts a series of conversations with smart, passionate cultural critics.

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Does R. Kelly's music mean something different to younger music critics and self-proclaimed "pop omnivores?" How do they balance discussion of his art and his actions? And why do they think the Pitchfork audience has embraced this musician?

Simon Vozick-Levinson is an associate editor at Rolling Stone whose work also has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and The Boston Phoenix. In March, he participated in a panel discussion at South by Southwest on the state of pop fandom entitled "Guiltless Pleasures: Imagining a Post-Snob World."

David Greenwald led that panel. He is a contributing editor for Billboard.com who also has been published in The Atlantic, GQ, and The Los Angeles Times, and he is the founder of the new music magazine UNCOOL.

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The Kelly Conversations: Gen Y music critics Simon Vozick-Levinson and David Greenwald
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