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If I'm curious about a pop song it's a good site for annotations. At least as interesting as VH1's classic Pop Up Video. For my more niche music tastes, the so
by somehnacct3757 5y ago
If I'm curious about a pop song it's a good site for annotations. At least as interesting as VH1's classic Pop Up Video.
For my more niche music tastes, the songs are never annotated or commented on even. A vision of annotating the planet seems unlikely when the music annotation site can't even annotate all the music genres.
- bttrsctchcld 5y agothis is it, and something I (as someone who works in music journalism and knows folks who've worked in editorial at Genius) tried to communicate to Genius for a long time. the core music annotation was just never robust enough. too many songs with no annotations, sparse annotations, or low-quality annotations, especially once you're talking about songs beyond the Hot 100 or an all-time best list. the ideal content, I think, would be high-quality trivial produced by music nerds across the site. instead it seems a lot of the annotations are written by young hardcore fans of particular superstars, and their annotations are often far more enamored and speculative than insightful.