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A couple of years ago, I took part in this Twitter thing called #MWE—which I believe stands for either Music Writing Experience or Music Writing Experiment, but I'm still waiting for the intern to come back with the research to confirm (Siri? SIRI?!). In a nutshell, it was this thing where you were supposed to listen to an album you had never got around to listening to before—a front to back, full listen—and then you were to craft a one tweet review. And you were supposed to do that once a day, for the entire month of February.

I quite enjoyed the brevity.

Well, HI:54 LO:5 is basically me co-opting the bones of that #MWE idea so I can do it for longer than one month a year. I went with the review rule of ‘no more than 54 words, no less than 5’ because I’m a little bit of a word play fanatic, so a mild obsession with "five" and "for" has now become a problem for me. Also, upping the max to 54 words gave reviews the little extra bit of head room that was missing when trying to fit an #MWE review in 140 characters or less (which was the fashion at the time). 

Of course, Twitter is now 280 characters, so maybe expect future HI:54 LO:5 reviews directly out on the socials. Heck, feel free to use #HI54LO5 on the socials to do your own '54 words or less’ reviews of things if you fancy. I might even share some of them back here on the blahg, or at least do some retweeting on the HIGH FIVE FOR socials. Or not, I don’t know, us bloggers have a tendency to throw out all kinds of ideas we never follow thru on.

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Jeremy // @HI54LOFI