Cliche or not, if music journalists are indeed "failed rock stars" then i
admire them for being able to move on from making subpar music to start
trying something else (that they *might* be better at).
The main issue I have with music journalism (this is where the might from
the above paragraph comes in) is when writers desperately try to describe
the sound of an album by pulling awkward words out of the woodwork that the
general educated populace doesn't care to understand. And even if the words
were understandable, the result of using them in such a forced, unnatural
fashion is to reduce the writing to impenetrable drivel. Drivel that is
separated from that produced by a person learning to write merely by the
size of the words.
Similar frustration arises when journalists try to read something into a
piece of music that just isn't there.
So, bottom line: Thank you journalists who read (and help produce) this list
for doing what you do. You save me a great deal of time. But please just
try to be a bit more straightforward. The phrase "you might like this if
you like X, Y, or Z" oftentimes is more than sufficient.
-- a failed journalistar
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