The New MySpace: Music Meets Social, Done Right

The New MySpace: Opening Screen

MySpace is all-new, and it's all about making music social. The new site is backed by Justin Timberlake and incorporates many elements of modern web design, particularly an emphasis on visual media. Although the site excels at discovery, its iconography is sometimes perplexing.

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The new MySpace is pretty. It incorporates many of the trends in modern web design and social media -- big visuals, responsive design, easy discovery -- and gives them a clear focus: connecting through music. And it really works.

You may remember the old MySpace ("MySpace Classic," in the new site's parlance). The old site was the one-time social media king, boasting more than 100 million users at its peak. However, it also had a Wild West reputation with a lot of NSFW content, chaotic user profiles (filled with tacky design and annoying auto-playing songs), and tons of spam accounts. When Facebook offered a cleaner, more manageable alternative, MySpace users abandoned the service in drov…
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