If there's anything bloggers like to talk about more than other bloggers, I've yet to find it. And in true blog-form, here's a blog post about bloggers blogging about bloggers. Blog.

Over the last couple of weeks we've seen the anti-blog-hype movement come to something of a head. Jess at Idolator had a good (though itself a little over hosanna-ed) piece calling out the Black Kids as the victim of the hyperactive blog coverage cycle; Last Plane to Jakarta weighed in, suggesting we not throw the positive-criticism-baby out the with hype-bathwater; Pretty Goes with Pretty has been covering this topic for a little while now; hell, even the New York Times had a thing or two to say.

It seems that the conclusion is that music blogs are too uncritical and eager to break the next big thing - so much so that they/we place nascent bands in impossible situations and end up spending a lot of energy on mediocre music. I find it a bit funny that things have turned out this way in the music blogosphere, when in most other 'spheres blogs are most maligned for their over-criticism and nit-picky nature. Think Fake Steve Jobs, think Perez, think Koz. Why are indie kids - who once had a reputation for snobbery - so sycophantic when it comes to the age of blogs?

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In my assessment of things, it all comes down to speed. Now that everyone can know everything about an obscure band without putting in too much work, the scene currency is no longer encyclopedic knowledge - but novelty. This drive to be the first kid on the block with the new toy leads bloggers to claim that their new toy is the best - even if it's a band like Black Kids or Vampire Weekend who aren't bad, but don't really deserve the hype.

Is this a bad thing? Probably, but it can't - and won't - sustain itself. We're all very used to the emperor having no clothes by now and I think we'll start to see the wheat more easily separated from the chaff before long.

But I have to agree with Ryan, when he says that it's been a while since there's been such a discussion of "The Scene". I'm afraid I've just made it a little more meta however.