A Pet Peeve
By Mark RichensApril 16th, 2008
For your consideration, a recent pet peeve of mine, though not necessarily a major one: Bands who pick silly genres for the categories on their MySpace pages. For instance, MGMT has "surf/jungle/country." That would be pretty witty -- even ironic! -- if every other indie pop-rock band didn't list stuff like "nu-jazz/polka/gamelan" or "minimalist/zouk/boogie."
If this grinds your gears, too, drop me a comment.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Why are you picking on MGMT? Is it that you want to get some gaffes in on some people from Memphis that are doing well? Don't be a hater. I agree with you though. It is pretty played out, but it is also myspace. I know that it is a major marketing tool for bands, but I don't think that it is really that important to the average fan. Do you?
April 17th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I am certainly not hatin' on MGMT! As for MySpace in general, I think most people these days check out a band's MySpace page before or instead of the band's Web site. Everything's all right there: touring, audio, etc.