I love your music minute features & how often you respond to your fans (BTW do you have a special name for your fans) lol Trans

I would only suggest you play with your writing style a bit. It’s good, but sometimes it seems like each article follows the same format exactly, and the only thing different is the topic. Idk if that makes sense, but I hope it helps. I read music minute every day and every album review. Definitely do more album reviews!

My favorite aspects was the shade. For Improvement, there’s nothing that comes to mind. I would like famous webshows from online for shows like Awkward Black Girl and Fly Guys and review them. I would also like for you to put up alternative music, like Florence + The Machine, Coldplay. I dont want it to just be an Urban Entertainment site, it want it to be of all diverse music. Plus, I would like for you to add interns for the site. We need fresh, new, young people on the site to help you out, so you dont have to work so hard.

I like the last two suggestions ahead of me.

Don’t try to be TOO BIG, TOO SOON. You can do “big things” and expand yourself if it’s lucrative and true to you, but stay in your lane. I love your Music Minutes and Wednesday features, and the FB commentary. I’ll just say feature more good, even old school R&B—bring back why we loved Paula Abdul, Janet, Usher, or even the P. Diddy era.

Many people question why some people are popular but it’s nice to have flashbacks of the timings of how things came to be.

And I’d love to see a feature of “growth” or “declines” in artists that tells stories (e.g. Beyonce’s vocal growth, Kelly’s confidence growth, Kelly Clarkson from A.I. to now, Trey Song’s transition to R.Kelly, or the roll out of R.Kelly clones, or how Timbaland & R.Kelly changed the sound of modern r&b, why Soulja Boy technology game changed the game, ATL’s dance movement (Laffy Taffy, Snap etc), when chopped-n-screwed got mainstream and watered down.

Tell stories Trent! We followed you here for a reason!

You should talk about Demi Lovato more, I know she’s a disney kid but she also has a great voice you should look on youtube and watch Demi&Kelly Clarkson singing Have yourself a Merry little Christmas it was great!!

I think you should do an up and coming artist/artist u should look out for post At least once a month….also a funny or inspiration clip/video from YouTube atleast once a month….you know just to make us smile :-). Also u post should post oldies/classics from the 90s and before that atleast once a month since we always talk about how sad music is today. I really enjoy your posts on beyonce’s album struggles and Xtina so keep those up.

But definitely the Artist we may not have heard of posts…..I still cant forgive u 4 not putting me on to Emeli sande lol

also, you should introduce experimental music Dj’s like Flying Lotus and get into Thundercat.

This is my favourite music blog especially for features like Music Minute and Way Back Wednesdays. I think the site could improve if you give more acknowledgement to other pop acts on the charts (like Tim said above) and write a few more album reviews (though I feel reviews work better written in the present tense unlike in your ‘Talk That Talk’ article). I like Trav and SparkD’s suggestions and as I’ve noticed there aren’t really any typos recently (less random words like “the” and “a” where they shouldn’t be lol) just generally keep up the good work in the new year! Oh and I hope the gif collection stays fresh!

My only suggestion would be to include more album reviews.

Love your site but i would say stop being so shady in your post stop comparing Mariah Carey to everybody that’s out we get it you a stan but you just do to much sometimes other than that i love the site

Mobile site needs to come back, and more album reviews.

Wow a lot of these people have good ideas. This is my first time ever commenting because I definitely come to this website first and feel like it has a good future ahead of it. Trent is doing an amazing job, and the fact that you are asking to hear from the fans is pretty legit.

I really like SparkD’s idea about telling an artist’s story of growth or decline. Talking about the producer is a good idea too, to bring us back to all of the highs (and lows) of what music they put out and when they got hot and when they were not. Think about some of the people who used to run the game who are nowhere to be found… Ja Rule, 50, Ashanti (although she is attempting a comeback)… the whole irv gotti takeover, Scott Storch, Sean Paul, etc.. You could analyze why they fell off and who took their spot.

Another idea that I think would make a very interesting read is doing features on certain cities. I’m sure you could probably think of a more clever title for the feature but something like “Reppin _____” (Reppin’ Chi-Town or Miami or Bronx or Queens for instance)… and show us the evolution of a sound and the artists who come from certain cities and how that shaped them as an artist and what kind of sound comes from different places, not only cities in the US but around the world.

I definitely agree with the people who have commented about maybe thinking outside of the box a little bit in featuring acts not immediately Urban/Pop. Florence and the Machine has always been a wish for me to be seen on a blog like this. Maybe show artists who, although are in other genres of music, have SOUL. Acts like Florence, Sia, and whoever said Demi Lovato is right, that girl can definitely SANG and her talent is definitely masked by her persona of being a Disney girl. She is an amazing vocalist.

Only other little tidbits: I agree with featuring up-and-comers more often who the public may not know yet. Album reviews are great, I personally see nothing wrong with your style of writing- I’m sure there is always room for improvement but just keep them entertaining, to the point, no BS’ing, and a little shade (when deserved) is always a plus. HA! Music minutes are amazing, GIFs GIFs GIFs I live for those haha! Keep up the good work you do a nice job. Roll on 2012!

Continue: Music Minutes, Way Back Wednesday, Album Reviews, Burning Up and Hot Topics (basically all that you already do, continuing doing it). Make sure you keep using gifs; they are needed.

New: In terms of the physical format of the site, if possible, every comment should have a reply button so that it’s easier for your commenters to reply to each other.

As long as you keep me up to date, entertained and informed, I have no complaints.

More album reviews, shade, news/reviews on upcoming new artists, and also interviews. Good luck in the new year. I enjoy reading your site!

I think you should Update the site. Maybe a different color. I wanted to say I love how you support JoJo too. I hope you keep doing it in 2012.

I like the direction your blog is going. Music minutes are great. I think it’s important to find out what your audience is interested in so you can get more support and spread your topics out more to make it a little difficult for other sites who copy your material. I like how you keep facts before your opinions or media takeout rumors. Many people don’t know the difference.

ALBUM REVIEWS!!!

MY SUGGESTION: Stop being so damn AMAZING! LOL

I’d love to see you get into ‘Link Love’ or ‘Hot Things Not Found Here,’ ‘Links I’m Looking At,’ …something that shows love to other artists / sites that you check out that may venture outside of regular posting. Even if you don’t do a full post on somebody like Florence, link to a site that has a good story about them and write a few sentences of your thoughts on it. If you see a nice up and coming artist’s video on YouTube, post the link to it and say what you liked about even if you don’t give them a full ‘Burning Up’ feature.

That, in my opinion, would be the best way to give the people the extra tid bits they are asking for as well as show some love around the web.

Also, as a Beyonce stan, iRequest you stop making Mariah look like The Queen. We ALL know it’s Beyonce. *twirls* But for reals, when you do comparisons, compare the people to people on their level. Rihanna’s #1′s are nowhere near Mariah’s. Compare her to somebody with eight #1′s, who’s only been in the game 6 years like her, or something like that.

Of course, you know I visit everyday and stan my lil heart out. I hope to see MUCH growth in 2012!! YAY! *skips away with a smile*