What have I been saying about Vibe Magazine?
The end has come. I can’t wait to see what The Reaper at Magazine Death Pool has to say about this. I really used to read Vibe a lot.
Whenever I would go to Borders, I would always look for Vibe but the content literally just evaporated. I had said it before that top 30 lists of who is hot in music, no one is going to pay for that!
As a magazine fiend, I hate seeing magazines fold but to be square and linear here, Vibe is gone because it didn’t know who it was. It didn’t know if it was a magazine for black people or a multicultural magazine wannabee like Trace.
I will write a more detailed analysis in a few days time.
5 Comments
05/07/2009 at 03:31
I think in the beginning Vibe was an important urban culture magazine. I remember my siblings and I in the mid to late 1990s read Vibe a lot. The reason Vibe was important was because it gave a platform to black youth 18 to 34. Unfortunately, Vibe magazine became more desperate and the quality of the magazine went down the tubes.
05/07/2009 at 14:38
@O, the problem with Vibe is that it didn’t know who it was.
02/07/2009 at 08:24
Did you see the hot mess that is on the last cover, a practically naked blonde trashy looking christina millian with the dream clutching her boobies…… tasteless!!!
02/07/2009 at 18:31
Yeah, I’m going to blog about that in just a second! It was rank!
30/06/2009 at 23:51
Aulelia,
Vibe needed to be put out of its misery. But atleast I still have several vintage Vibes from the early 90’s to look through. Back then Vibe was great!