Das H-Wort
Von Uli am 25. September 2008, 16:51
Ronan Fitzgerald über die Bedeutungslosigkeit eines gewissen Wortes:
Hype is not created by some shadowed Illuminati behind the castle walls. Hype in the post-Internet age is you, me, and everybody else. We are the hype. People attacking hype are just more hype. Hype seems to have become a cheap way of referring to information overload.
When a reviewer attempts to reply to all of the great cacophony of Internet opinion that emerges about a record before its release these days, it’s too often worthless. Reviews that do this seem two-tone. They’re a simple yes/no story of “I distrust hype, PS I also own many leather bound books” or “OMG this record is hot!”
Ich wünsche mir außerdem weniger Bullshit der Marke "The Shitpants werden ja gerade groß in den Blogs abgefeiert", "Bloghype", "Bloglove" etc. sobald ein Dutzend Deppen über den gleichen Künstler was geschrieben hat. Bitte damit aufhören, danke.
Gefunden via Idolator wo auch gerade mal wieder ein herrlich kritischer Eintrag online gegangen ist, hier Lucas Jensen zur Fragwürdigkeit der "Bands müssen mehr touren"-Parole:
More and more of my artists were telling me that they had to work a day job and couldn't hit the road. At first, I thought they were missing out on golden opportunities. Hit the road! Make new fans! Do it the way our indie forefathers did it! But these days, a day job seems like a way to go. Unless someone provides me with a statistic that people are going out to shows more, I'm gonna assume that they aren't. Going out costs more for music consumers: ticket prices are higher, traveling costs are higher... hell, beer costs are higher. Bands have to ask more from clubs. Clubs have to charge customers more to cover the bands, etc., etc. It's a downhill slide that ends with the music consumer eating a load of crap.
Hype is not created by some shadowed Illuminati behind the castle walls. Hype in the post-Internet age is you, me, and everybody else. We are the hype. People attacking hype are just more hype. Hype seems to have become a cheap way of referring to information overload.
When a reviewer attempts to reply to all of the great cacophony of Internet opinion that emerges about a record before its release these days, it’s too often worthless. Reviews that do this seem two-tone. They’re a simple yes/no story of “I distrust hype, PS I also own many leather bound books” or “OMG this record is hot!”
Ich wünsche mir außerdem weniger Bullshit der Marke "The Shitpants werden ja gerade groß in den Blogs abgefeiert", "Bloghype", "Bloglove" etc. sobald ein Dutzend Deppen über den gleichen Künstler was geschrieben hat. Bitte damit aufhören, danke.
Gefunden via Idolator wo auch gerade mal wieder ein herrlich kritischer Eintrag online gegangen ist, hier Lucas Jensen zur Fragwürdigkeit der "Bands müssen mehr touren"-Parole:
More and more of my artists were telling me that they had to work a day job and couldn't hit the road. At first, I thought they were missing out on golden opportunities. Hit the road! Make new fans! Do it the way our indie forefathers did it! But these days, a day job seems like a way to go. Unless someone provides me with a statistic that people are going out to shows more, I'm gonna assume that they aren't. Going out costs more for music consumers: ticket prices are higher, traveling costs are higher... hell, beer costs are higher. Bands have to ask more from clubs. Clubs have to charge customers more to cover the bands, etc., etc. It's a downhill slide that ends with the music consumer eating a load of crap.
