How I want my blog to change the world

Daily writing prompt

What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?

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I’ll answer this as this feels like a sapient question for this site. I guess I want this sites to educate my audience on the history of popular music in Australia and nz, I guess I also want to dispel many myths about mainstream media that the internet has come up with in recent years.

These myths include:

1. Rock music being sidelined in favour of corporate pop music (something that’s only become a recent phenomenon thanks to social media funnily enough)
2. That only certain demographics had a hand in determining what was popular in the mainstream (the mainstream has been widely diverse until very recently where it seems music only gets popular via tik Tok)
3. Only certain artists achieving success (another phenomenon that’s come to be in recent years, although I’m sure it felt that way during Beatles mania in the 60s, Abba mania in the 70s, Madonna’s peak in the 80s or Mariah Carey’s peak in the 90s)
4. Music trends were based around what was popular on Billboard throughout the rest of the world (it’s partially true due to news coverage of non-north Americans topping the charts in America, but otherwise false due to how stale the Billboard charts has always been)
5. Everyone has the same opinions when it comes to popular music (it only seems that way due to how formulaic coverage of current songs is on YouTube, it’s a large reason why I no longer support that community)
6. Pop music only became well respected in recent years (unless we’re talking about elitist publications like rolling Stone or pitchfork, just no)
7. Trends such as disco or alt rock dying out due to shifts in political culture (mostly true in America, untrue internationally as these trends simply faded away like any other trend)
8. Songs overplayed on oldies stations being unavoidable during their heyday (false surprisingly, no doubt these stations have nostalgic bias of the past)
9. Music only becoming problematic in recent years (most songs with problematic themes were as such upon their initial release, hence why the radio edit omits these problematic issues)
10. All music that became popular in the past was well received by critics (you’d be shocked at how little it an impact critics had when it came to determining what would be a hit back in the day, let alone what we would consider to be a classic nowadays)

These are just some of the myths that I dispel throughout my site, and I do so in a way that doesn’t alienate my audience the way some music critics on YouTube do to theirs. I also write the occasional essay, which is a bit more personal and bias, but again, nowhere near as condescending as what you can expect on YouTube.