Ok this is an interesting idea. I had a similar thought myself some time back but decided against it. Why? For various reasons, some of which included not wanting anyone to see the secrets contained within my Bedroom of Wonder (!) as well as the fact that I'm an ugly ****er, and not to mention that doing something like this may open you to copyright infringement as you need to use the music as a backdrop. I see you've got around the final point there by using YouTubes, and quite well.
But do I think it will work? I have to say no I don't. Why? Because I think people here in general skim through articles or else read them all the way through, but I would imagine the ratio of people who click YTs as opposed to those who don't is quite low and weighted on the side of the latter. People coming to a journal want to read, not watch; they want to see what your writing style is like and they want to get lost in the review. It's not so easy to do that in a four-minute video.
I could be completely wrong --- and if I am, readers, please tell me because I would love to know this will work for him --- but I think people will check your journal, see a post with one YT and either click it in half interest or move on. Of course, you could be starting a whole new trend here, and it'll certainly be a big feature in this week's update, but I think personally you're going the wrong direction. Podcasts like these are great but I don't believe they suit the music journal format and I would much rather see four columns of text than click one YouTube.
Not to mention that if anyone has YouTube blocked in work or in their country you're excluding them.
Not meaning to put a damper on things; maybe this will work fine. But from my point of view, if this is how you intend things to go for the future, I am disappointed and I have to say I would be unlikely to check any of the videos. I can read your text in half the time it takes to go through your video.
Still, good luck with it. But I would suggest maybe a mixture of the two? Writing and video reviews maybe? Perhaps this is what people want. Time, as they say, will be the judge, not me.
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