Article Response: Salon's Grammy Blog

But that's the whole point: The execution was intentional. It was loaded with non-sequitors and off-the-cuff rants instead of some bloated think piece, a trend in blogging that TOO should be mocked. I don't know...I guess I read too many bad blogs, so I thought he nailed it. How would you have done it differently, you think?

Less gay more hipsterish, for one thing

Less gay? How? Examples? I'm just curious.

Faboo? Jannie Jackoo?
Are there any lines you thought were particularly funny?

I have to agree with Sym: the article didn't read as a parody of Music Blogs, but as a parody of Salon's opinion of Music Blogs.

Going by my initial reactions to music blogs (ie reactions to the most obvious/begging to be parodied elements).

Initial Reactions were:

1) Higher standard of writing/thought than in big media.
2) Less likely to have rants about death of pop/rock/albums/whatever.
3) Obsessed with pop and interested in taking pop music seriously.
4) Conversation tone meaning: a)a pain to get into as they are referring to articles/squabbles/arguments/theories the first-time reader have no idea about (and no introductory chapter) b) constant referring to other blogs.

These are features that I see no trace of in this parody.

A better parody (for example) would have featured complaints about Timberlake performance featuring not enough dancing by Timberlake and bemoaned his striving towards musicality.

Oh trust me, 4b) was there in full effect

ok, true, I take back 4b (damn late addtions to ones post)- even though it comes out as if he's referring to personal friends with stupid names (as opposed to bloggers with stupid blog names).

And I should also concede I only read ILM associated Blogs - there is probably a whole world of pain waiting out there (as hinted by small intrusions into ILM - Dame Matthews Thread for one).

compare, contrast: http://www.whatevs.org/2004_02_08_whatevs_archive.html#107630542765169575

Mmmmmm forced...

Oh, - and that blog writer is still partly in ILM world - he has links to 2 blogs that I read - Sasha's and Fluxblog.

Somewhere in the infinite reachs of the interweb is an exact duplicate of Neil Pollacks article - only written by somebody who meant for his blog to be taken seriously.