Urban, I don't mean to retrospectively earn a spot in the "Biggest Drama Whore" category for your nominations, but I feel I have to defend my journal.
Your comment about every journal being "long-winded album reviews" or short one-liners with youtubes is hardly applicable in my case. Actually, the first is certainly applicable (guilty!) and maybe the second but NOT ONLY those! I go to immense lengths to do different and interesting things in my journal, of which the below are only a few, and I am always looking for new slants and ideas to keep readers interested. There can be nothing as boring as album review after album review for some people, which is why I try to keep it fresh and new.
"More than words" --- an essay on a song whose lyrics I really like or rate, and a bit about the songwriter.
"Secret life of the album cover" --- where I dissect an album sleeve and talk about its art as related to the album
"Gone solo in the game" --- looking at the solo career of an artiste who has left their band
"Eurovision Hell" --- Poking fun at the Eurovision Song Contest
"Stranger in a strange land" --- Where I try to broaden my musical tastes or appreciation of genres I know little of. Last year was boybands, this year coming, perhaps, jazz...
"The Meat Grinder" --- In which I select a random metal band and talk about them, looking at their work and advising what I think of them
These are only a very few small examples of the ways in which I have tried to stand out from the crowd and be different, do something original with my journal and not take the path of least resistance. And it must be working, with almost 80,000 views --- the most I can see any journal having to date --- and my journal being voted for here several times as Journal of the Year, for which I thank those who voted.
But it's not just me, in case you or anyone else thinks this is a "look at me!" post. It's not. Unknown Soldier has put trojan work into his journal, Mankycaant, although he has only just started, already has a journal shaping up to be one to watch, and of course Janszoon's journals, no matter what they are, are always interesting and innovative, especially "25 albums..."
So how you can say no-one is being original in what they write in their journal is beyond me. I think credit where credit is due; we're all working hard to make our journals interesting and fun to read, and comments like yours, while possibly made offhand, don't help.
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