Want to be a music journalist?
Adam Williams, a writer from Pop Matters, has concocted what amounts to a music journalism personality test. Here's a sample question:
3. Guitarists are mathematicians, and what they play is aptly described as angular.
I read all the answers, so I think that disqualifies me from taking the test (looks like I'll have to wait until the next test to find out if I'm meant to be a music journalist...), but my intuition on this one would scream that music is never angular. Just a hunch.
Again, going by intuition, being a music journalist involves too much pretension by assigning any sort of worth to your opinion about something as arbitrary as music. Just because I've gotten a review published doesn't make me a creidble source. I'm also not a rock musician. I'm going to have to go with no on that one, too. Although I could change my mind.
Oh, and music is not math.
3. Guitarists are mathematicians, and what they play is aptly described as angular.
I read all the answers, so I think that disqualifies me from taking the test (looks like I'll have to wait until the next test to find out if I'm meant to be a music journalist...), but my intuition on this one would scream that music is never angular. Just a hunch.
Again, going by intuition, being a music journalist involves too much pretension by assigning any sort of worth to your opinion about something as arbitrary as music. Just because I've gotten a review published doesn't make me a creidble source. I'm also not a rock musician. I'm going to have to go with no on that one, too. Although I could change my mind.
Oh, and music is not math.
1 Comments:
My score goes to 11! Also, nice review in the Alive. Very well-written, homeslice.
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