MySpace Trawl – Please Stop Sending Us Crap Messages
In all of the years we’ve been hacking away through the silly amounts of artists on MySpace, we’ve done so on our own.
Well most on are done on our own, sometimes during a late night radio listen we’ll pick up on groovy records locked away in the grim dark of the night.
Amazingly, this feature isn’t the result of a PR lady throwing records at us and offering favours that we’ll get later on. You see dear reader, we want to keep things independent and physically scour for stuff that is different and you’ll hopefully enjoy. What we don’t like is people clawing through our attention and claiming to be the next big thing when, in reality, they sound like a dog poo that’s been stepped on.
At one point, MySpace used to be all about adding friends and keeping in contact with each other. With a few licks of HTML, you could even customise your page to make it all flashy and weird. But now, the friend factor has disappeared over to Facebook and we are left with a sticky goo that once was the dominant force of social networking.
Now we don’t get people wanting to be our friend when we log in. Gone are the days when Gary the speccy four-eyed nerd wanted to remind you that his greatest achievement was to attain three stars at McDonalds. All the friend requests we get now are from bands.
But they do send messages. However, they don’t do much to make us want to bother clicking on their profile. Instead of a nice friendly welcome and a hug, we get comments like “Saw you like this band. I do similar stuff. Maybe you’ll like me?” Perhaps we will, but mostly we won’t.
Below are a couple of examples that people send us and think we’ll respond to. We won’t, and if it was possible, we’d use the following written words as toilet paper. Now that would be handy wouldn’t it?
“Hello there, I am the new piano playing singer/songwriter from SE London. As you enjoy the music of _________, you might buzz off mine too.”
“Hi you may like what I’m doing. I write, music, videocreate. Add me if you like.”
“Hi ******** here, wishing you a well of happiness. If you like acoustic music and Coldplay then you’ll like me. . I have new EP on the way and soon I’ll be touring soon if you want to check out my stuff.”
Don’t fret its business as usual next week. Expect the typical sort of music which is quite wonderful, but probably won’t be heard on a grand scale.
