This school year, I have been copy editing for our student newspaper.
It's great. I love it. No, really. Fixing commas, italicizing album names, and correcting grammatical errors - it all sends chills up my spine. Most of the time, the articles are well-written - not too many things to fix.
But then, there's the Arts Section.
My question for all of these musically-inclined, drinking-out-of-their-mason-jars writers is this:
WHY DO YOU INVENT WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC?
I understand that you listen to a vast variety of music, and you probably run out of the usual adjectives to describe it, but sometimes I think that the words submitted in the Oxford English Dictionary can do the job.
Here are some of the latest submissions:
Turntablist
Freestyler
Hypemen
Soundscape
Mixtape (this is really two words - not one, in case anybody was wondering)
Anthemic
Eighties-ish
Synths (short for synthesizers - and to be honest, I've let this one go because it keeps coming up again and again)
Bassline (again - two words. Not one)
You guys. Merriam and Webster had it right the first time. Your music can't be so cool that it requires a brand new word to describe it.
