Idolator | by Maura Johnston | Fri, Jun 13
Fri, Jun 13
From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Recent events, however, have caused us to canvass the Internet for initial reactions to the acquittal of R. Kelly, which came down earlier today:
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