John Darnielle has a message for publicists: “Stop opening your one-sheets by announcing that the state of music is pretty dour but the artist whose music you yourself are putting out has somehow risen above the intolerable state of things. OK? Can you do that one thing for me, please, if not for the sake of your artists, whose promos get tossed aside by writers like, oh, me, the second we see a line about how we live in an era where music isn’t really so good, but fortunately for us, some band has come along to rescue us all?” [Last Plane To Jakarta]
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But can we lazy feature writers and reviewers still use that trope in all our ledes? Pretty please?
Yeah! Stop ruining that proclamation before my industry saving album is released, assholes.
I gotta admit that I’ve never used anything like that in a press release, and I’ve never seen any of my colleagues use anything similar.
i’ll admit to having used this line in the past but in my defense it was in the press release for “rocket 88″ by jackie brenston and his delta cats.
@Big Gray.: You are truly a rare breed, then.
I think that proclaimation would render 1/3 of mp3 blog posts extinct. Either that or every post now has to open by answering the question “Is is better than the Beatles?”
Does this edict also apply to rap blogs? (Please?)
I think he means, “…writers like, oh, me, who are too lazy to correct run-on sentences, much less have to do something other than cutting/pasting publicists’ one-sheets into our long-winded reviews…”
I’ve been a music journalist for more than 25 years, and I’ve never used the word “One-sheet” (or heard it being used) for anything other than a movie poster. What have I missed?