30 Very Good Reasons to Not Update Your Music Blog for More Than a Year
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2 min readMar 27, 2016
- No one reads it.
- Your friends might read it and silently judge your preferences in music.
- Your mom might read it and worry about you.
- Your coworkers might read it and think you’re irresponsible.
- Strangers might read it and harass you.
- Based on their tweet favoriting, it is *possible* that the artists you’ve written about read it, like, once. Which is terrifying and means you should disappear.
- No, but actually, no one reads it.
- SEO is really complicated now.
- Your reviews are too long.
- Your reviews are too short.
- One time, you had a draft post ready to go right after a magical summer show, but then it disappeared into a Wordpress void and you couldn’t re-create it.
- You hyperbolically call every show “magical.”
- You’re way past the acceptable deadline for publishing anything on your top albums of 2015.
- Your top albums of 2015 list is not diverse.
- Your top albums of 2015 list tries too conspicuously hard to be diverse.
- Your write-around treatment and non-ranking of what is most critics’ top album of 2015 is a blatant cop-out.
- Your actual top album of 2015 is by an artist you’ve liked since 2005.
- You just write about the same people over and over.
- You just write about hipster music.
- You have no idea what hipsters listen to anymore. Or what a hipster is anymore. Or what music is cool. Or if people say “cool.”
- The last time you tried to stay out late and finally meet a favorite artist, you got sick for nearly a month afterward.
- Your post-show iPhone notes rarely make sense the next morning.
- People might steal the concert photos you publish.
- The concert photos you post are laughably blurry.
- The one time you brought a real camera to a show specifically for blogging purposes, your memory card got corrupted.
- You should probably update your Wordpress theme.
- You should probably change your blog name.
- You should probably just move to a different platform.
- Just delete the whole thing.
- Blogs are dead, basically.
