Saturday evening I got an email from Alyson telling me the world of Twitter was on fire with news that My Bloody Valentine first album would be released on their website in a couple of hours.
Then a couple of hours later I heard the website had crashed and then was back up again.
And then a friend of mine on Facebook was raving about it.
So around midnight I downloaded the album.
From Sunday morning thru Sunday afternoon I listened to it incessantly. Wrote up a review late Sunday afternoon and it posted on rock nyc Monday Morning.
And now it is Monday afternoon and the My Bloody Valentine story is just about done with. I mean it is so Saturday Night And Sunday Morning. So very very hip for a few hours but tomorrow is Tuesday and lots of new releases are out and the story has spun away and is now gone.
How much faster can the news circle move: in 48 hours mbv went from rumor, to flaming fired up hot as hell commodity, to old news. I am a little in shock that something that took 22 years to produce could be finished with so fast. We came, we saw, we bought, we reviewed, we moved on all within a weekend and already something else has taken its place.
Look at Beyonce: from lip-sync to Super Bowled over to US Tour and now what? Now it is all over, that's all she has, that and dumb ass lines about sleeping with her husband to relax her.
I know the world of music (and really all information) moves fast but this is insane. I was thinking of taking a couple of days to let mbv sink in but I don't have a couple of days to let it sink it. It is now or never. I heard about the Bey tour (even the presale on February 6th) Monday around 5am and decided to sit on it till the next day. What a fool!!! By the time it got posted it was soooo old it had no meaning left.
Cmon guys what next, Ed Koch is dead, next? Next? Here come the Fall Out Boy -faster pussycat kill kill.