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Bet You Can't Hit Me With a Hot Track


March 14, 2008 | Tags: Myspace

Sidenote: The title of this post was inspired by a guy I passed on the streets of downtown San Francisco who was holding a sign that said “I bet you can’t hit me with a quarter”. Genius.

 

 

I’m a fairly humble person, so it’s about that time that I share one of my personal flaws with the general public. I’m not sure if you’ve ever heard any of my thoughts about myspace, but uh, they’re not so nice. In short, I basically think it’s wack. There you have it.

However, for a girl that is currently aspiring to be the next big thing in the world of freelance hip hop writing (is there such a thing as a “big thing” in that field? Um…moving on…), my distaste towards myspace causes a few problems. See, I’d love to discover the next big artist or open my ears to some new sounds, just in the same way that I’m sure my other partners in blogging crime do as well. And I appreciate every single one of you that takes the time out to shoot me an e-mail to promote your music or suggest somebody that I should listen to. I can’t always reply to all of you, but I guarantee that I read every single e-mail*. I think I need to put my ambitious project of really sitting down and sifting through everything on hold until summertime though, as much as it pains me. So apologies to everybody that’s waiting on a word from me. It’ll happen. Even if it’s me just e-mailing you that you suck and that you should probably find a backup career. Sorry, but my credibility is on the line here, so I’m not going to be cosigning everybody. Just a warning.

Back to the point though, there’s two kinds of e-mails that people promoting music tend to send out. One kind is of the download link/file variety, and the other is of the myspace link variety. I dare you to guess which one I take more seriously.

Yeah…myspace loses.

Perhaps I shouldn’t be this way, but for some reason I can’t help it. I can’t be the only one. It’s a fucking headache going through myspace pages, did you know that? All those bright ass colors you guys love to use and all the utter bullshit you love to fill your page up with so that it takes forever to find what I need on the joint? Very annoying. Not to mention that if I hit up your page and your profile only has like 1,500 views or something, I’m going to have a hard time believing that you’re “about to blow” or whatever it is that you swear is going to happen. Plus there is just so much wack shit flooding the myspace server that nine times out of ten these days, whatever link you were referred to is statistically proven to suck. Well, maybe nobody did a study on it, but I bet if they did that’d be the consensus. And in that sense, it’s like you have to work even harder to impress me if you’re referring me to your myspace, because I’m already going into it with a not-so-decent mindstate.

In no way am I trying to detract from using whatever means necessary that you can to promote yourself, what you do, and what you love. And I’m not trying to knock anybody who has already sent me their shit via myspace. It’s not like I’m sitting around giving you the thizz face before I listen to your tracks, but that myspace link is an instant interest deterrent to me.

This is my flaw, and I’m working on it. Seriously. But at the end of the day, we all have to admit one thing: this whole myspace music movement is getting just a teeny bit overcrowded. You know, just a little. And that’s making it harder for the true talent out there to get the shine that they deserve. It could be a potentially wonderful tool for promotion but if it falls victim to oversaturation, then everybody loses. Just something to keep in mind. By all means don’t stop sending me your music though, but note that I do prefer a zshare link or something. Thanks.

 

 

*Unless you’re spamming my shit with like three e-mails a day for a week promoting the same damn person. Then you get ignored. Just so you know.


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