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Originally Posted by Trollheart
How many times a day do people go to YT and watch videos? It's not like you're asking them to eat ten raw pigs for breakfast. If they want to do it, they can do it. Nobody's forcing them to.
And I'm talking about the fact that some people seem to think that you have to illustrate your article by including videos, in other words, that the writing isn't enough. That's what I mean by drawing pictures. The description should be enough to draw the picture, otherwise why bother? You might as well just put up the video and say here, click this. Certainly it can add to the experience but I've found that some people might just read a few lines and then hit the video, which sort of negates all the effort you've put into the writing.
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If you're writing some editorial piece, where your opinion is what matters, then clearly there is no point to a video. But you post mostly reviews. Reviews that are supposed to entice or discourage someone from listening to an album. Providing a video or two to let people hear what the actual music sounds like is a no-brainer.
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Anyhoo, I couldn't care less. I'm not saying don't use YTs, I'm just saying I stopped using them for that reason. I feel my writing should be adequate enough to draw a picture without having to actually, you know, draw a picture. If you read a description of music in a book, do you then need to rush to YT to hear what it's like? Often the words can form enough of a description on their own, which is what I try to do.
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First of all, a book can't contain a YT video, so it's a moot point as the author doesn't have the option. Secondly, YES I NEED TO HEAR WHAT THE MUSIC SOUNDS LIKE. The entire point of music is listening to it, not reading reviews about it. The reason I pick up a music book, aside from interest in the history side of music, is to find music I want to listen to. If there was an option to let me hear the music I'm reading about through the book, so that I don't have to set it aside and go on the internet or to a CD store and find it, then that would be excellent.