Passion contd.
To be honest I can think of half a dozen people who write passionately about pop in ways which don’t feel hand-me-down, and what they have in common is:
- I read them here on Tumblr (heart u tumblr) so the idea of dialogue/chatter is as implicit in the writing as the idea of the pulpit is in the stand-alone piece.
- They don’t just write about pop music, they don’t self-define as “rock writers”/”music critics” so they don’t fall into that trap of “noes I am a music critic so what I write must BE ROCK N ROLL not BE ABOUT IT ((c) Lester or at least his book blurbs) - or else I will just be dancing about you-know-what”
- Most of them are women - which feels relevant in a “who gets the breaks which require you to negotiate the heuristics of rockwrite in the first place” way, rather than a “women be writing like THIS” one.
