― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
I understand the intent of the piece. But the execution was horrible. There's a great parody to be made of music blogs, but that was not it.
― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 05:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Playa Hata, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 05:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 05:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Playa Hata, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 06:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 06:10 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Jedmond, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 06:28 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 06:34 (twenty years ago) link
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).
― Jedmond, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 06:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago) link
― ModJ (ModJ), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Jedmond, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago) link