I (heart) MySpace

Posted on February 20th, 2006 by Andy

In the wake of my childish and petulant rant at MySpace after Damon and Naomi decided to sign up to the flaky social networking Leviathan I was contacted by two former members of Galaxie 500 pointing out that there was an unofficial and inaccurate Galaxie 500 MySpace page and they thought it would be a good idea if there was also an official and accurate one as well

As if my ego hadn’t been inflated enough by a namecheck on the Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste DVD they suggested that I might be the right person to look after such an undertaking. Obviously someone with any moral fibre would have been compelled to decline the offer - sadly I just crumbled under my own vanity and am therefore obliged to withdraw my previous dissing of MySpace and say that it is not a shallow, mindless and messy horror - but a lovely, flowery and friendly place to hang out.

So here it is the official Galaxie 500 MySpace page

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I despise MySpace

Posted on February 6th, 2006 by Andy

So Damon & Naomi have signed up with MySpace - it seems an intevitability of modern music that any (indie) band worth their salt (and a billion others not worth the time of day) have to have a page on the social networking nightmare. The site is built on false and forced friendships that would be better established in more apprpriate fora. Sign up and wait for the “girls” to invite you to look at their webcams. Enjoy the poorly laid out and ugly pages. Keep having complete strangers ask to be your “friend” without any introduction or relationship build-up.

Maybe it is a valuable tool for the struggling indie or a way to communicate with the fans for those feeling out-of-touch but I can’t help feeling that this sort of fake social community built on imaginary relationships is a sad way for the Internet to be going.

I’m signed up, hypocrite that I am, because it means I can call The Clientele and The New Year and now Damon and Naomi my firends - maybe I’m the sort of shallow sad-sack that ought to really embrace MySpace.

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