I think a lot of the problem of music writing at large is writing on demand. I can see the point because journalists have to pay the rent etc. but since I think journalism is a form of artistry as much as any other writing and that ultimately it 90% boils down to theorising, a lot of what's symptomatic of bad music writing is what's symptomatic of me trying to write an essay on a topic I'm not interested in, in that it will be about 1/3 as good as an essay which I actually give a crap about. Except that you have to write a lot of stuff which is boring as all fvckery in order to be allowed to write anything you give a crap about, usually.
I am not sure why blogs are so bad at this, mind, because technically the people should be writing about what they want to write about. Except that often they aren't at all, they're writing about what they think they ought to be writing about to keep up with Popjustice or whoever. Which is what's nice about poptimists in a lot of ways because people do what they do and if anyone comments it's a bonus, etc. although I think this maybe only works because as a group it has an assured audience anyway and journalism with no audience is fairly pointless or at least unrewarding/disheartening.
Which I suppose comes back to the DDR notion that's been bandying around. A bit, anyway.
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Date: 2007-05-07 07:22 pm (UTC)I am not sure why blogs are so bad at this, mind, because technically the people should be writing about what they want to write about. Except that often they aren't at all, they're writing about what they think they ought to be writing about to keep up with Popjustice or whoever. Which is what's nice about poptimists in a lot of ways because people do what they do and if anyone comments it's a bonus, etc. although I think this maybe only works because as a group it has an assured audience anyway and journalism with no audience is fairly pointless or at least unrewarding/disheartening.
Which I suppose comes back to the DDR notion that's been bandying around. A bit, anyway.