Tuesday, 12 February 2008

I Is Music Journalist

Okay so this is perhaps the worst case of journalism (online or otherwise) I've ever seen.

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/les-savy-fav
(I hope this article doesn't get removed otherwise you're just gonna have to trust me)

What I'm really hoping is that he's not actually employed by The Word - whose blatantly false slogan atop their magazine and website is "Home of Intelligent Life on Planet Rock" - and that this writer hacked their website.
Seriously - it must be a reader review. Not that I think he reads much. When a journalist admits to not knowing anything about a HEADLINING act - there are two questions that spring to mind: 1) What the fuck are you doing there and 2) Isn't part of your job to, well, research what you review/criticise?
What I despise more than his indecent dismissal of Future Of The Left is the fact that his highlight was Los Campesinos! Hell, I didn't see them, but I don't care. It smacks of HOT FOR 2008 bias. Los Compesinos! are a great band, but to say Les Savy Fav are "slightly arty shouty punk metal" pretty much demonstrates, to me at least, that this guy should not be writing for the website of a magazine that I thought I respected. Fucking hell.

Music journalism these days is utter tosh. The majority of higher profile writers are terrible, ill informed and not at all entertaining. I could ramble on about a one-man crusade that I'm waging, but that's not true because there are tonnes of amazing writers out there - except they are writing FOR FREE. How is this fair? Sure, shit writers don't necessarily get money too, but then they shouldn't even be writing.
Now you're probably thinking: "Oh you're clearly a FOTL/LSF fanboy who doesn't like this writer's opinion". Fuck you. Fuck you and your judgmental idiocy. I love both of those bands, but anyone with basic reading skills can see that the opinions have practically been spat onto the keyboard and the phlegm smeared across keys which the spellcheck has picked up and formed into actual sentences.
Well....perhaps not. But the only entertainment value here is in this display of incompetence of this man's (boy's?) literacy and journalistic skills. I could now trail the internet searching for other examples that rile me, but I've got far too much to do. I just despair that as I write about bands I love and hate - yet still create pieces worth reading, if only for enjoyment - with passion, conviction and talent, others are squandering web space (which is pretty much infinite, but it's still a bad use of space) with this utter drivel. Seriously, fuck substandard writers and ESPECIALLY lazy music journalists. Go read about/listen to bands that have been around for a decade before you review them. It's not hard. It's in fact your fucking job.

PS Brad apologises for any bad grammar or spell-check failiures in the body of this post. He is clearly fucked off enough to not bloody care.
PPS. Expect more shitkicking of terrible music journalism at a later date.

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