There ’s an interesting conversation pass off over on the music internets today about technology and the country of medicine magazines . The premise : Kanye West is Tweeting so prolifically and Ustreaming so earnestly that he ’s wholly antique the standard magazine profile .
Of course , there ’s no public debate that the cyberspace hastotally change the way we get a line music . But now , with our favorite artists tweeting among us , revealing themselves 140 fictitious character at a metre , it seems that the internet is alter the way we discovermusicians , too .
When Kanye West — that ever - controversial pop enigma wrapped in a goofy light - up suit — signed up for Twitter a few workweek ago , he garner one C of thousands of follower in a matter of days ( presently , he has over 800,000 ) . And he deserve it ! Because he ’s just about the best tweeter there is , offering up reliably hilarious contemplation onfashion—“I jog in Lanvin”—interior design—“What do I have to do to get a wide-eyed Iranian carpet with cherub imagery uuuuugh”—and , most relevant for our intention , his home theatre :
I grow my projector in today for the living elbow room then paradigm is about 13 foot all-inclusive 10,000 lumins watch Dark Knight in the dayless than a second agovia World Wide Web
In the thick of his tweeting — of which there were ab initio , like , a dozen a twenty-four hours — Kanye hosted his first Ustream confabulation , logging on ( with some difficulty ) and answer to spectator ’ questions about his record album , his blog , and whatever else .
Today , over atSlate , Jonah Weiner bring out an " all - access code , wholly non - sole interview " with the musician , and by non - exclusive he meant that it was a received cartridge profile — of which Weiner ’s write very many , very well — with information culled all from Kanye ’s personal net end product . At the beginning of his man / projection , Weiner asked :
In the look of a hilly information dump like West ’s , is n’t the basic work of profiling — build from the stark naked material of everything someone says and does toward a more focussed sense of who they are — as relevant as ever ?
On the Sound of the City web log at the Village Voice , Zach Baron thoughtthat peradventure Weiner was miss the point :
Artists do n’t need magazine like slating to convey their words to the populace any longer ; these days , they ’d rather do it themselves , and the technology is at distributor point where they can . Where Weiner and Slate see a stream of selective information dire in penury to the mediation of a professional , West sees an chance to skip the jobber .
And that ’s explicitly what Kanye ’s trying to do — to use technology to circumvent the medium interlocutor . After his mother ’s death in 2007 , or , more specifically , after some small flare - up in which he was possibly misquoted , Kanye pretty much cease giving schematic interviews tout ensemble . His problem with them , he explain in a YouTube television , was :
You say what you say and then you get paraphrased . I wanna get blessing over the shit .
That ’s just what Twitter affords artist : direct , unfiltered access to their rooter , where they get concluding approval of everything they say , or type . And it ’s not just Kanye , whose personality and the Twitter weapons platform compound for a match made in overshare heaven — mostartists these days can be find revealing themselves to their sports fan , without a publicist ( perhaps ) or a magazine writer filter them .
Yesterday , on her Twitter ( and without the threat of Kanye West interrupting her ) , Taylor Swift report that she was eating Fig Newtons when she heard her newest exclusive semen on the radiocommunication . I ’m not sure if keep abreast @taylorswift13 would give me any great insight into Taylor Swift the artist , or what she mean to the pop music landscape painting , but the double of her wipe out Fig Newtons and then getting super excited when she heard herself on the radio set is just the type of keyhole glimpse into herreal lifethat magazine profiles often set out to capture .
As social media stay on to transform from something people elect to do to something people justdo , you’re able to count that musician , and all other artists for that subject , will continue to use the services as tools to promote themselves and , to the extent that they ’re any different , their make and merchandise . But the question now becomes , is this the character of accession we want ? Do we intrust the creative person to tell us their story , or is that comfortably left to the master ? [ SlateandSound of the City ]
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