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In Reply to: There's plenty of fine music out there... posted by musetap on March 3, 2007 at 12:55:10:
"There's SO MUCH competition for the entertainment bucks, there's SO MUCH to choose from, that it can't ALL be great, original, or even terribly satisfying. It's a false memory to think it was really much different in the past."I could not disagree more....
The other day, I was waiting on maintenance work for my car, and in the background played a mainstream pop station. Since I had nothing better to do, I really focused on what was going on. And almost all of it had vocal pitch correction, automated beats, melodies that sounded more similar than different, no stylistic individualism. Cyclic, monotonous basslines with zero improvisation. Even the rhythms lacked depth. Supposedly what most of this type of music hangs its hat on.
The lyrics were maybe the only redeeming quality, but I could not get over how much of it involved "self-victimization".....
I personally think what sells today is mainly two things- Erotica and messages that people want to hear.
"The cream rises to the top (sometimes it's sour cream...) and the wannabes fall into distant memory/oblivion."
Once again, I cannot disagree more. One recent band in my recollections that I thought could have been something special was Ian Thomas' Boomers. Incredible music (in my opinion), but otherwise too honest and no fancy packaging to impress the mainstream.
"Seems the older you (we) get, the more we experience, the more our tastes become "refined", the more difficult we are to please, or find new/higher planes of musical satisfaction."
Possible. But I hear a lot of great tunes for the first time, only to find out they're not so new. More often than those that are new.
"Nobody said it was going to be easy!"
That I do agree with. But the weird thing is the music of recent time that I *do* like was mostly stuff that I was fortunate to come across from others' tastes rather than me finding gems on my own.
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Follow Ups
- Re: There's plenty of fine music out there... - Todd Krieger 05:22:51 03/04/07 (4)
- Re: There's plenty of fine music out there... - musetap 10:56:44 03/04/07 (2)
- Re: There's plenty of fine music out there... - Todd Krieger 18:03:37 03/04/07 (1)
- Re: There's plenty of fine music out there... - musetap 18:30:03 03/04/07 (0)
- I Just Realized..... - Todd Krieger 05:48:22 03/04/07 (0)
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