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Kismet thoughts

Alison Perdue is the creator of a blog called Kismet thoughts. She is a seventeen-year-old student from Toronto kinda new to the blog scene since she just started posting in October of 2015. She describes herself a person with a powerful passion for music and she has studied music management at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, one of the best music schools in the country. In her blog, the language she uses is very conversational and she doesn’t use very technical “lingo” in order to appeal to all sorts of readers. Her diction is consistently casual and she throws the occasional joke here and there to make it more enjoyable and to prevent the topics to get too dry. Alison’s way to phrase sentences is truly captivating and engaging because it makes the post flow freely and easy to read. Because of reasons like this is that she’s done some guest posts in other music industry related blogs such as http://musiclinx.com/blog/, http://www.jtvdigital.com/blog/ and laststopbooking.com.

In her post called the Overlooked Advantages of Streaming she talks about how streaming services have major advantages for musicians even though a lot of people attack them by saying they are destroying the industry. In this post, she is more serious than in other posts and keeps it more informative and opinionated. Alison did an interesting comparison between music and clothes. She suggested that going to the record store to buy albums from major artists is like going to your go-to stores to buy clothes. Then she said, “Now imagine if all clothing was available for free. Wouldn’t people spend more time discovering more styles, designers, and stores, simply because they now have the freedom to do so? Clothing would no longer be a huge investment, and instead, people would have the ability to freely shop, find what they truly like, without having to worry about the effect of its price on their bank accounts”. I liked this analogy because it helps more people understand the benefits that sites like Spotify or Pandora can give you as an artist in the long run, such as more fans that would go to your concerts because of discovering you on a streaming site.

Creating An Amazing Experience For Fans – Live Performances is another one of her posts. She explains how different shows are for every artist or band but also talks about the similarities that are seen in every show. In order to do this, she uses some of her own live shows experiences to support her opinions. One of her funnier lines was “Despite the fact that I mention Taylor Swift in almost all of my articles, it’s justified… I swear.” Reading that line makes me think she doesn’t want to be seen as the typical die-hard fan of Taylor Swift since some of them are seen as too mainstream by some people (including me). After that line, she actually gives some good analysis of Swift’s shows by explaining what works for her as an artist and her image as a representation of the music she does. Alison then goes on to give some advice on how to get familiarized with all the techniques musicians use to make their shows a memorable experience in a list layout. I really like the fact that she encourages her readers to comment about the different topics she discusses in her posts because it shows that she cares about getting feedback and see what the readers have to say.

Even though Alison is new to the music industry since she is very young, I can tell her drive is over the top and she seems to be very easy going. I’m looking forward to read her future posts and what she does in the future. Go show Alison some love!