i think being a music/entertainment journalist would be a fun job, not as fun as being a celebrity mind you (and by fun i mean how it seems like fun when you’re a mere pedestrian), but at least you get to meet all the celebs you lust after. but if i were a music critic i don’t think i would ever take my job seriously. sure i might write all sorts of interesting gossip that people gobble up, but at the end of the day i don’t build a bridge or drive a train. which means i’m left to read the stories of a pop chick and wonder if i would’ve made the same astute observation:

“Pop writing understands that pop is born within and of a living, breathing culture, and that this is what matters, rather than how the snare sound was achieved on track seven. It also allows that because of this, some performers are better discussed, rather than actively reviewed or interviewed. (A great example of this is Kylie. Fantastic pop person – ace music, lovely outfits, slick entertainer, bottom as thing of beauty etc – but has she ever said anything of any interest whatsoever?)”

i never thought of kylie as the epitome as pop, i had pictured her more as an end-of-the-road european celeb made over by the american music machine. but hey if i figured that out, i would be writing right now about j.lake or j.lo. i guess it’s just one of those things that you’ll never know about unless you’re in the field, which is why reading this sort of stuff is so cool. and just in case you were speed reading or something,

“Usually you’re fighting for time – any time – with a star. You’re promised a day, you get an hour. You’re promised an hour, you get 10 minutes in the back of a cab on the way to the airport.”

and

“‘We just make music and if anyone else likes it, it’s a bonus.’ Every single band in the world says this. It is boring. Ignore it. In fact, ignore anything that’s said in the first 10 minutes. They’ve already said it to everyone else.”

which more or less means that nothing any band says is relevant since you never get to spend enough time with them to get past the irrelevant “tell us about your latest album” type subliminal marketing questions.

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