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ERD: Granted, as far as posting to R & M goes, one should be prepared to make more than an "I like X, I do not like Y" or "Go check out Z" statement. This incidentally is the reason I don't post much in here - I love music as appreciator, composer and performer, but I have precious little to say about it. Even after having written copy in my spare time over the last 3 years (very intermittently, I hasten to add) for a Norwegian festival I find that I have less and less to say about why or how I find a particular band/artist/sound/genre interesting. I'm perfectly able, as a copywriter, to make bands, small or big, sound interesting to the average joe/discerning hipster, but I nonetheless find that I'm left vaguely put off by my efforts. Of course, said efforts are marketing efforts, and a far cry from any labour of love-ish sort of writing.
That reminds me - a lot of my friends and acquaintances who are active musicians absolutely loathe the way PR types, label types, managers, promotors and journos try to frame their discourse into one that fits the market logic, usually by employing copious amounts of bragging, name-dropping and chest-beating, as well as the sexing up obv. Urg. I have more to say about this, but that's for another thread. Any music-critical meta-threads around? |
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