First off thanks to my friend Akshat for helping me get the idea for today's post from his Facetube status. The status message was about the cost of going to a David Guetta... (I am hoping I spelled that right and I don't care enough to look it up, which would take about as much time as its taking me to type all this and render the question moot). Anyways the cost of going to a DJ's concert was the topic of status. I agree with him that 2000 Rs. is a large amount for watching a guy stand at what is basically a fancy computer and program thumping repetitive sounds out of it. And by all means if you enjoy trance or house or whatever it is that he makes, go for it. I just feel that the amount of fame these guys get, be it deadmau5 or armin van buren or avici (?) or whoever will be tomorrow's 'happening' artist (do artists happen? or are they just in?), is unfair.
I consider myself a pretty old school guy. I enjoy music that mostly people several times my age and with balding hair and thin white ponytails enjoy. But besides some of the music I am in no way a hippie. I dont care about buying more expensive fruits because they were grown in pig poop instead of chemical fertilizers, or about driving hybrids because they 'save the earth'. Face it, they dont. They just give you a better gas economy because they have a ton of Chinese batteries in them which when disposed off damage your beloved earth way more than my 15 year old Honda ever will.
But anyways today's topic is not about why I hate the Prius, and hippies, and conservative Republicans and many other things. No, thats for another time. Today's topic is about why people who program repetitive bass sounds are so much more famous than people who actually have the skill to make beautiful sounds from strings, percussion membranes and their own voices. I get it that people dont want to understand too much about music, they just want a steady bass drone to ring in the background while they go about their day and then later lose their senses to ethanol while gyrating against someone of the opposite sex (or same sex; hey I mean whatever makes you happy, right?). Personally, I feel that when skill, poetry and hard work is put into music, it gives it a deeper meaning. Songs about things other than teen 'love' and women's sexual parts require so much more work. Writing lyrics with more than a couple syllables is even harder. So why dont the majority of people enjoy that?
I think thats because most people have a different place for music in their minds. They dont want to search something that is not featured on Vevo or iTunes. They can just listen to something that the major recording corporations have recommended because it is so much more accessible. Plus old music is from the past; who wants to listen to something which is original and was a great experiment in sound fusion? Remember the Die Hard 4.0 scene when Justin Long questions Bruce Willis why old songs are called 'classic' rock? Thats because those people made music with a lot of thought and creativity (also a variety of psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs but that doesnt help my argument much).
You can justify modern pop music as much as you want, but it doesnt overcome the fact that its often just so shallow and two-dimensional.
I consider myself a pretty old school guy. I enjoy music that mostly people several times my age and with balding hair and thin white ponytails enjoy. But besides some of the music I am in no way a hippie. I dont care about buying more expensive fruits because they were grown in pig poop instead of chemical fertilizers, or about driving hybrids because they 'save the earth'. Face it, they dont. They just give you a better gas economy because they have a ton of Chinese batteries in them which when disposed off damage your beloved earth way more than my 15 year old Honda ever will.
But anyways today's topic is not about why I hate the Prius, and hippies, and conservative Republicans and many other things. No, thats for another time. Today's topic is about why people who program repetitive bass sounds are so much more famous than people who actually have the skill to make beautiful sounds from strings, percussion membranes and their own voices. I get it that people dont want to understand too much about music, they just want a steady bass drone to ring in the background while they go about their day and then later lose their senses to ethanol while gyrating against someone of the opposite sex (or same sex; hey I mean whatever makes you happy, right?). Personally, I feel that when skill, poetry and hard work is put into music, it gives it a deeper meaning. Songs about things other than teen 'love' and women's sexual parts require so much more work. Writing lyrics with more than a couple syllables is even harder. So why dont the majority of people enjoy that?
I think thats because most people have a different place for music in their minds. They dont want to search something that is not featured on Vevo or iTunes. They can just listen to something that the major recording corporations have recommended because it is so much more accessible. Plus old music is from the past; who wants to listen to something which is original and was a great experiment in sound fusion? Remember the Die Hard 4.0 scene when Justin Long questions Bruce Willis why old songs are called 'classic' rock? Thats because those people made music with a lot of thought and creativity (also a variety of psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs but that doesnt help my argument much).
You can justify modern pop music as much as you want, but it doesnt overcome the fact that its often just so shallow and two-dimensional.
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