first post!!!!!!!!!!1111

^Disclaimer: That title is meant to be cute and ironic.

I just thought I'd make a lil welcome post describing my new music blog PerfectoPop & introducing myself & all that... So basically, once upon a time, there was this kid in high school who really liked music and listened to lots and lots of it, which made her pretty much normal. But she had known from an early age that her thoughts about music differed slightly from those of her peers; this realization arrived sometime around the 7th time she got bullied for admitting she owned a Hilary Duff album. Two, actually, but she never even told anyone she bought the Christmas album.

So this little kid grows up and realizes you don't go around telling people you think Disney Channel is cool and starts listening to bands that were actually popular, such as The All-American Rejects and Good Charlotte (I listened to Hilary Duff while you listened to Nicole Richie's future husband? Who feels dumb now, huh?) But then she got to high school and learned that in high school, uncool stuff is the coolest, so she got in with the High School Musical-loving crowd & realized that the stuff she listened to as a kid wasn't THAT bad. Then she realized that maybe the mature thing to do would be to listen to the music you like, no matter how many times people make fun of Hannah Montana, and try to see the good in the stuff you don't. And she realized that there are a LOT of people in the world who completely suck at doing that.

So she decided to start a music blog to try to spread her love of everything pop music and get people to listen to new things because she's under the impression that her tastes are slightly distinctive. Plus, she loves writing music reviews and wants an Internet addiction that's more productive Facebook.

A few things to note about this blog:

Its name is "PerfectoPop", like "perfecto" as in perfect in Spanish and "pop" as in popular music, and it's not like "perfect-o-pop;" it's like one word that rhymes with "electropop," which is a genre I am very into right now.

It's not going to be updated every day unless a miracle occurs and I magically become a second-semester senior rather than junior.

I came up with a few fun sections that posts can pertain to; their clever names are:

DsCene & Heard - a section of live music reviews, probably all of which will be from the Washington DC metropolitan area because that is where I will be living for at least another year and a half. But they could be more wide-ranging; I have been known to travel as far as Pennsylvania for Jonas Brothers concerts...

Must See CD - albums I think you absolutely must listen to because they are the Next Big Thing. Bands I previously would have included in this category if I'd had a blog include The Ting Tings, who I was so totally right about, Katy Perry, who I was so totally even more right about, and Skye Sweetnam, who I was so totally not right about. But I try.

First Impressions - lame name, kind of lame section, basically for if I want to get a review out there RIGHT NOW and don't have time to listen to the album more than once.
[I believe you must listen to an album at least 3 times before passing definitive judgement on it because everything sounds better the second or third time around...]

ALSO:
-normal CD reviews
-music video reviews
-good free stuff
-tour dates
-music-inspired/related trends in fashion, etc. [I'm thinking of calling it What The Jonas Brothers Wore Today]
-other news
-hopefully no crazy rants about things like why aspiring musicians who illegally download music are stupid or how Taylor Swift does not know how to promote an album or anything annoying like that...

So, yeah, that is my little welcome message/explanatory note. Um, I hope you like my blog and it doesn't end up embarrassing me like previous misguided efforts. That's all for now... Expect a real post that is like actually about music soon!