Posted on 10/03/2022 6:09:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
Listening to a few Rick Beato features like the link above - Episode 91 with Joni Mitchell.
Whether it's the top 20 guitar solos or it's this piece discussing Joni Mitchell it becomes obvious that from folk to metal to rock to county we have some brilliant musicians. They understand theory, phrasing, poetry, art.
Every aspiring musician that grabs a guitar and starts playing has to realize the complexity of music and the genius of some of these musicians from Larry Carlton to John Bonham.
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I watched part of one of those where some black kid listened to “Close to the Edge” by Yes and completely freaked out. His brain wasn’t ready for what he was hearing.
Rap = Low IQ Music
It’s what we have, because everything else imploded or turned to junk or can’t be taken seriously anymore.
Unlike most rap songs, this uses a guitar playing power chords
Rap = Low IQ Music
That and “Bro Country”
Be honest now.;-)
“yet somewhere around the late 80’s to early 90’s our world became woke”
You’ve noticed something that has to be the strangest thing. If you think about it music, art, fashion, etc. are frozen in time.
In the past each decade had its own fashion—think how different the 1920’s were from say the 1950’s. Both were enjoyable but different from each other.
Now in the late 1980’s or 1990’s it was fashionable to let your pants fall down, listen to rap music, wear leggings without a dress, etc. Nothing has changed in 30 years.
It’s like society got stuck in amber.
It is different in that Doo Wap is music and rap wrap is not. Rap is basically spoken word/poetry which has a percussion backing.
Because we've always had degenerates and they tend to not progress. When society moves to the lowest common denominator, it doesn't get better because there is no creativity at that level, which is why it's the lowest level.
It’s just one of many symptoms of what I somewhat reference tongue-in-cheek as the true pandemic:
Stupid.
The problem is that it’s both highly contagious and, unfortunately, not terminal.
You can’t spell crap without rap.
You know it's bad simply by looking at the list of recent Superbowl performers: The Weeknd, Shakira, Beyonce, Mary Blige.
I was in a grocery store that had music you described with the big female voice bleating out repetitive lyrics over and over and over. It is headache inducing.
It took all I had to keep from going to the manager and telling him that the music they were playing is driving me out of the store. I know it is a muzak and he can’t help it, but it was loud and horrible.
Yes..I clicked on your link...I tried...
There was plenty of vapid music in the 1950’s, too.
Well, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
Actually there is some rap I like.........P.O.D.
Modern culture is rotten to the core. Popular culture, moreso - a blackhole of putrefaction.
Subsequently, a large percentage of the population does not care for Bach, or Chopin, or Peteris Vasks, and that's okay. All the more for me. And it is not compulsory - yet - to wallow in the filth or consume Rap, but one sometimes has to take pains to avoid it in public spaces.
Are rap “mixtapes” really that different than say street corner Doo Wop from the 1950’s?
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For the most part yes.
Doo Wop
( did you have to fight AC 4 times to type “Wop” ? , I did /-(
Doo Wop didn’t glorify gangs, drugs, prostitution, murder and foul language.
Rush song roll the bones has a rap bridge that’s ok, but for the most part I don’t much like rap, not even clean Christian rap. Maybe if I was a percussionist I’d like rap more, but I’m a strings kind of person.
“I bring this up in the context of rap, such a fake shallow “music” - yet somewhere around the late 80’s to early 90’s our world became woke and rap was put on a pedestal as some sort of reparations. Let’s face it, rap sucks.”
While true, the same thing can be said about another type of music.
I bring this up in the context of jazz, such a fake shallow “music”. Let’s face it, jazz sucks.
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