EDIT: this is a thing that exists now:
http://www.rpgdl.com/KSotW/
So...last time I saw Ciato, she commented that the topic I did on country/pop/kpop lyrics had basically turned into a review topic for recent pop music, and that I should keep doing pop music reviews.
And...actually I did start writing about music regularly, just...not on the DL or public on the internet at all. I started an email series pretty much just to a few family members as "Kaitlyn's song of the week"--which was generally chosen between music I had listened to in the past week, and generally limited to music that was new (came out within the past month usually--or at minimum I hadn't heard the piece before). The "new" restriction was in part to force me out of my comfort zone, and get me not just pulling music out of a nostalgia hat.
So anyway, I figured my interest would wane pretty fast and I'd stop sending the emails, hence a pretty non-committal choice to hit a small audience (of like 8 people) but I've been doing these since August, and I haven't missed a week yet. Not only that, I've had some successes where I predicted popular culture before it happened (I caught "The Fox" by Yvlis when it had 40k views, and predicted it would become a thing, picked it for the week #hipster). And some failures too, of course.
But at any rate, I'm thinking about taking the "Kaitlyn's song of the week" series public. Which is kind-of weird to me, since...while I know more about popular music than my 60-year-old parents, the internet has a way of making me feel dumb in music discussions. Still, seems to be something I'm going to continue researching and writing about every week so...maybe it's worth-it?
Stuff I'm curious about:
1. Would the DL read these?
2. The super lazy way would be to just start copy/pasting my emails onto the forums. The slightly less lazy way would be to make a sub-website like FE.php with some handy stuff like navigating by week and pretty layouts. Which...really isn't very much additional work (and it'd be one-time work; once it was implemented, it would still be pretty much a copy/paste).
3. Assuming the marginally more ambitious plan, should I continue to solo it, or collaborate with others on the DL who, undoubtedly, have better musical taste than I do?
