Now that Pitchfork's video-heavy
Pitchfork.tv and Stereogum's "Television With Even Less Pity Than Television Without Pity" spinoff
Videogum have safely launched, we can all see the folly of all the pre-launch "OMG direct competitors?!?" chatter that threatened to sag the meta-music-blogosphere past its already-pretty-low point. Yes, "video-related sites that are brand extensions of popular music sites and launching in early April" could be a (somewhat wordily named) trend
let, but surely anyone trying to lump the two together as direct competitors is either really overly invested in pitching a trend story on this topic or not so into concepts like "nuance" or "completely different business models and also kind of different audiences." [
Hypebot]
Idolator
Maybe launching his online music site the same week as the much-buzzed, yet sort of crappy PluggedIn wasn't the greatest idea, but then again, Tommy Hilfiger's TommyTV isn't really all that interesting anyway. You know that Tommy Hilfiger and music go way back—he sponsored that Rolling Stones tour three or four tours ago that probably should have been their last one but wasn't—but now that connection is solidified in internet form, at least until everyone gets bored with the idea.
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