Is Your Music Blog In Need Of Traffic? Post Some Photos Of Ladies!

noah | July 14, 2008 1:30 am

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Apparently the folks at Vulture still have the stamina to scroll through the scores of concert pics and peanut-gallery members that populate the heavyweight blog Brooklyn Vegan, because someone over there noticed a recent trend in the site’s endless, nearly wordless documentation of shows: “it seems that summer concertgoers–particularly women–now have to deal with blog photographers and their long-lens cameras.” Yes, the combination of hot weather and hot women has apparently proven to be too much for whoever’s selecting shots for the site these days, resulting in some craziness from all that heat. Quoth Vulture: “It was [Thursday’s] recap of Feist’s Prospect Park show that really started to edge into creepiness, with a few long-range shots of random women just hanging out…. We’re sure the Feist fans in question loved checking in at Brooklyn Vegan to see voyeuresque photos of themselves above comments like ‘more pictures of the indie sluts please’ and ‘I’d mushabang those Feist-type girls.’ ” Well, with come-ons like that, how could they refuse? Am I right, ladies?

Of course, the posting of these “atmosphere” shots isn’t wrong on its face; crowd shots at shows do help provide a sense of place, and God knows they at least provide something of a respite from the beardos-with-strats parade that plagues many an indie-leaning blog. But the trend Vulture points out makes one wonder if the site’s trying to goose its traffic the old-fashioned way–a suspicion that’s only furthered by the ever-churning comment section, which is made up of your basic anonymous mouth-breathers who, when taking a break from arguing over the finer points of Andrew WK’s new bar, type things like “i like the preggers chick….god thats hot.”

Apparently taking a lesson from Vulture’s upbraiding, the folks at BV have since started posting pictures of “hot” men as well, which I guess has opened the door for equal-opportunity leering, at least. (Sample comment: “Mmmm.. Good Beefcake in the dodgeballs section..”) And in “things could always be worse” news, BV has a ways to go if it wants to hit the groin-tugging ways of ThatsHipHop.com, which hit up its fanbase with the following come-on over the weekend:

DJ SELF VIP SATURDAYS 10pm EST>> LIVE IN THE CHATROOM> ARTISTS WILL BE IN THE CHATROOM>

TONIGHT KIMMI CUPCAKES WILL HAVE LIVE PHONE SEX WITH THE 40th CALLER/VIBRATOR INCLUDED!!!!>>>>>>> MAKE SURE YOU CALL AROUND 10pm EST 877 337 4748 press 1 then 40

What, not 69? Dude.

ThatsHipHop [Official site] Brooklyn Vegan Now Just Posting Photos Of Random Cute Indie Girls [Vulture] [Screengrab via Motley Crue]