Today’s Sign Of The Apocalypse: Music Criticism Goes “American Idol”
From today’s New York Times piece on the Billboard blog-critic competition referenced above:
The 30 or so youthful critics will file reviews and photos on deadline from concert sites, from late June through mid-September. Their commentary will be posted on personalized blogs, housed on the Billboard Web site (billboard.com).
In true democratic Web fashion, the blogosphere will select the contest’s three finalists as well as the ultimate winner, all chosen based on the number of hits to the blogs.
The winner is based on the number of hits? This is terrifying, democratcially enabled future of rock writing: Snaps of audience responses to the “show us your tits!” exhortation, interspersed with the occasional “OMG, amirite?”
Billboard looking for a few good bloggers [The Daily Swarm]
