q for writers here: have you fallen out of love with your specialist genre?

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i dont love hip hop like i used to. i feel like something of a fraud writing about it all the time when i can barely bear to listen to half of the new rap records coming out every week (having said that, i do stil enjoy the old records). is this common? is it time for me to give up writing about it?

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate country music. Correction, I hate mediocre country music. Which arrives in my mailbox by the bushel. I can almost not listen to any country music anymore. Success has spoiled me.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I will always have time for goth shoegaze.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

No, only because I keep splintering it into further subgenres, or riding on the backs of astute ILMers who coin terms like "micro-goth." Hurrah!

But yeah, there are days, I admit, when it's hard to parse a 4/4 technoid beat in a new, literarily interesting way. If anything, I'd like to be less specialist in my writing, but my DJ proclivities keep me coming back to techno. Maybe someday my writing and deejaying will split more, but not for the moment.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 27 May 2004 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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