I’m a Lifehacker fan, so when I read there that Gawker Media was launching a music blog, I thought I’d check it out.
The tag on the front page was promising:
“When the internet came, we overthrew the pasty white tastemakers, the duplicitious music marketers and the manufactured pop idols. And then they all came back. This is Idolator. We’re so disappointed.”
I can relate on the disappointment front. Apparently Idolator isn’t so disappointed they won’t take ad money for Madonna’s clothing company. On the other hand, thanks to this blog, I found out about the hella-awesome Paris Hilton review in my previous post.
So… wait and see.
One thing, though — the Gawker style manual (whether or not such a thing exists) makes Lifehacker, Idolator, and, um, that dirty blog they run (even though it’s missing from their titles list??) all sound like they’re written by the same robo-blogger. That’s a little irritating.
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