Let's admit it, I am no good at Twitter. No. I am really bad. Bad like your Gramma just discovered the phrase, "That's what she said!" and Facebook intermittently, immediately signed up for an account, is commenting all granny-esqe comments on every single one of your photographs and following it with declarative "That's what she said" statements. Not cute, but bad.
With disclaimers nearly out of the way, I have spent more time on Twitter this week than I have the in the nine years since I have signed up for it. I am not quick, clever - well, I fancy myself as clever, but not in a precise, "I'm gonna rock your world" in 140 characters clever, or brief. Obviously. But, I am giving it a shot, a rim shot.
This week for class we had to create a few lists of personal interests and class related blog beat on Twitter. I am obsessed with lists, making them, marking them off, categorizing. This is right up my alley. I threw together three lists: MemphisFamous, relating to Memphis and Mid-South musicians/bands, All the Laughs, my favorite comedians, and Blog Beat is a short list of my most fancied Music Bloggers. I attempted to Tweet with some of the people on the Blog Beat. I tweeted and as of yet no favorites or returned conversation.
@theloopLA, Christine Schatz, is a blogger spanning from New York City to Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. She is a former DJ and tech savvy. Recently she has reblogged and shared posts from other bloggers about a myriad of subjects including Bruce Jenner's possible transgender reformation and the blizzard in NYC. However, I am most interested in
@theloopLA's music blogging. The format is simply enlightening! In each post @theloopLA satiates five aspects of music blogging, being precise in writing a paragraph of music description, auditory enlightenment, visually stimulating the listener with the musician's promo or EPK, electronic press kit, photograph, providing a free download, and linking the site back to the artist. Sometimes I yearn for listening to something new without having the time to actually read them. I mean, I have a day job too that requires my attention, sometimes.
@thegoodgroupie, Miranda, is a 30-something writer from Texas with a panache for performing music too. Miranda is the girl next door. She relates, mostly mainstream, music to her person and the current events in her life. I instantly relate to her through
Confessions: Am I Too Old For Music? She is me, because at a show I am comfortable shoes and never without my
Hearos. She makes it acceptable to be the peppy cheerleader for music considered poppy or mainstream. That is okay. After all, what is music if not a relation between the emotion evoked in a song and the listener experience?
@brewupbuttercup is a self-professed lover of felines, addicted to tea, and avid music fanatic. Simply because she is from the United Kingdom I find her tres chic! Georgia Shipley, aka @brewbuttercup, is an English Literature student and she writes about what she knows, upbeat aspects of student life and running a blog devoted to her favourites. Recently she had a chance to blog an email interview she conducted getting to know a local indie band
Model Aeroplanes. She included photographs from their EPK, written dialog, a play list of their music, as well as tweeting the interview to
@modelaeroplanes and the headlining act these gentlemen are opening for on tour. That is one fantastic, inventive way to drive viewers to her site!
Charlotte Pearson,
@mixtapecouture, is a young journalist, lifestyle blogger, and writer for
@YuppeeMag in London. @mixtapecouture has managed to capture two of my favorite things in one blog, music and fashion. She visits festivals local to her, covering mainstream and new-to-me music as well. @mixtapecouture covers her bases by making her posts available by link via Twitter, on
bloglovin',
blogspot, Instagram, and Pinterest. She writes in the most thoughtful manner. Her words are not contrived, but flow elegantly. Included in her graceful blog posts are the holy grail of requirements, articles, EPK photographs, snippets from Soundcloud, and links to the artists. If a reader wants more than articles @mixtapecouture also includes links to Skype interviews and YouTube performances with the artists. She is a symphony wrapped in hand stitched delight.
As of this morning all women bloggers featured in this post have responded to my questions, favorited a post, or shared the Tweet. That has me sending a glitter cannon of smiles from Memphis.
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