The Final Post on AP.net, The Transition to Chorus • Page 16

It's Closer to the Truth and Further From the Sky

I think they start on the third page right now, after all my interviews because I archived those last.

 

Gracias amigo

 

Excited to be here from the start. I lurked on AP for many years before finally starting to contribute a bit more over the past year or so. I really enjoy this community and I'm looking forward to being a part of it.

 

Far be it for me to NOT wax poetic about something important in my life coming to an end... but at the end of the day all I can really say is thank you, and I'm ready for what comes next.

I was one of the newest AP.net staff hired and as such, I don't have years of contributions to look back on. I've got about 9 months worth. When you hired me, @Jason Tate, nobody seemed to know exactly what it was for. It caused some concern amongst some of the senior staff, if I recall. And then Kevin Lyman put FPS on Warped Tour and something snapped. Up until that point, I'd had some big publications under my belt - I'd do cursory band interviews, review albums that I wasn't really allowed to dislike, wait for paychecks that never came (and weren't what they should've been in the first place). I was a real writer now, right? The byline said so.

But that day, I realized that I was the thing that girls just aren't supposed to be. I was angry. I was over it. I wanted to use my words to say something real. And I word-vomited a letter to the institution that had been a defining part of my identity as a young teen and you called it brilliant and let me post it. And that day, my life changed. I found my purpose, and you didn't tell me no. You didn't try to reign me in, or to tone me down, or to threaten me with the repercussions that the site could face over my words. I don't think I can express enough how important it is for a writer to be given that freedom, or how grateful I am to have been allowed that space on such a prominent platform. I believe in this community and I believe in the hearts that have already been changed. I believe in the promise of what's yet to come.

So, moving forward, all I can really say is thank you. Here's to the past, and here's to Chorus.fm.

 

Thanks so much for registering and signing up to be a supporter as well, that's amazing! Welcome aboard!

 

Chorus is all a big April Fools joke! calling it now

 

Not great....

 

I talk about this a bit in the post I'm going to publish later this afternoon, but let me just echo that having freedom as a writer was my favorite thing about AbsolutePunk. My stuff was never as topical or "controversial" as Anna's, but there are still a ton of pieces I did over there that I probably never could have published with just about any other site. Too personal, too honest, too subjective, too fanboyish.

 

I got fired from a website for writing reviews/articles that I would've written had I been staff on AP

 

Gotta save some stuff!

 

i've been lurking ap.net since jr high 15 years ago when i was a pop punk kid with baggy shorts and nfg shirts. started posting a few years back. didn't even know about the transition until this morning. kind of a whirlwind but excited for the future and to be apart of it..

this site has meant a lot to me.

 

If you'd like to see what the final article looks like on Chorus.fm ...

A Hello, A Goodbye • chorus.fm

 

Here we go! A Hello, A Goodbye • chorus.fm

edit: heh, looks like I was too slow.

 

lol imagine if this site just disappears tomorrow and we go back to ap

 

Ayyyyy the News section has arrived!

 

And reviews.

 

I'll be posting a lot more later today and tomorrow and all that. I've been trying to seed it with some news though over the past few weeks to make sure it wasn't ... naked.

 

Hahahahahahaha. Some of them are really, really bad. So bad that I actually added a footnote to that Paramore one because of how much I disagreed with it.

 

seeing those "...posted by MelodyBot" articles have been such a tease till now.

 

Yep, that's the one I'm re-reading right now

 

chorus.fm looks so great, it's like AP.net jumped from freshman year of high school straight to college.

 

Hide.

 

Hi Jason,

New site looks awesome. Here for it. Thanks for carrying on and I'm looking forward to what Chorus has to offer.

 

Awesome, I'm excited @Jason Tate

 

was going back a few days ago for writing clips and the amount of reviews i would structure with each paragraph being the next song i would talk about was incredibly cool and not amateur shit at all