Research

I have begun to research the different types of music journalism- i have looked quite a lot about reviews. I looked at three different album reviews for an music album that came out earlier this year, and looked at the different ways to set our a music review. One of them had wrote their opinion track by track, which i thought was very useful because it gave the reader a better insight into the album, and how the tracks reflected the meaning. of the album. Another review was slightly more vague, it looked only at a few key tracks on the album and focused a lot more than the last one on the band members and what the writer had thought about their participation on the tracks. I think this was just as useful if not more than the previous one i had looked at because it looked at all aspects of the album, not just the music, but the composers as well. The last one i looked at did a lot of just finding things to fault the musicians for and going off track, not really talking about the actual tracks on the album. This, i think was pretty much a waste of time because all the writer seemed to do was complain about the musicians. When i plan to write a review, i think i will write one using the layout of the second one. This is because i really liked they way the writer didn't just rant off about just 'this one song he really hated,' he wrote about most of the tracks- how they flowed, how they matched whatever one came before and after them, and how they were compared to previous albums. I also liked the way he talked how much the band had changed from the transition from the previous album to the current album, and how the members style had changed throughout this too. But, i also think i would incorporate the depth that the first reviewer went into to describe the tracks.