Meaning this thread less as a rant or kvetchfest than as a kind of useful resource for writers, a "What Not To Write" based on stuff that lots of people are doing that strikes you as unfortunate. Doesn't have to be a totally new development, just things you see happening a lot right now.
Entries based on people liking the wrong music will get a rmde from me.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 22:23 (fourteen years ago)
1. Wikipedification: reviews or articles written in an objective, almost retrospective tone trying to definitively state the official "legacy" of an artist or trend or piece of music less than 12 months old. By all means try to argue for the importance of what you like, but leave the all music guide blurb from 5 years in the future to the all music guide writers of 2016.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 22:24 (fourteen years ago)
ban e-mail "interviews"
― gr8080, Sunday, 23 January 2011 22:25 (fourteen years ago)
3. Twitter references: constantly referring to the twitter feeds of not-particularly-famous musicians in order to imply a relationship of closeness or intimacy or mutual regard. One of the positives of the democratisation of music crit was supposed to be a reduction in this kind of clubby behaviour but if anything music crit has run in the opposite direction.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 22:27 (fourteen years ago)
4. Somewhat related to the above, constantly leaning on the crutch of relationships of regard and lines of patronage between well known musicians and less known musicians to establish the legitimacy of the latter.
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 January 2011 22:30 (fourteen years ago)