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Posted on 12/31/2014 5:58:41 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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I think we’ve all just been drafted. :)
Some of the music I posted constitutes an enlistment poster for the Culture War. Our poor kids! Our poor society!
Even if they were all “clean” lyrically, much of current pop music is electronic and heavily sequenced, thus making it very difficult to reproduce on a guitar or piano (my two instruments). Taylor Swift’s earlier music was good for the guitar students, but most current songs only work with Karaoke on YouTube, which is not conducive to learning proper phrasing or expression.
It is as though the “industry” wants complete control over artistic expression, and dictates it through the computer.
I have always been very hip and current with song choices through the years, but in the last 2-3 years, the trends have been very disturbing.
I mentioned to Conor on another thread that the only time I listen to radio it's in the car, and I listen to Rush Limbaugh or classical music. I haven't watched MTV since 1992.
The whole musical trend is disturbing. It's as though the country is showing, via its culture, that we're headed for a nervous breakdown or a violent confrontation.
Is it any wonder we have Ferguson, the school shootings and other mahem. They are angry because their music is angry. Not much positive influences any more. So sad....
Me too...quiet, except for the occasional illegal fireworks. LOL!
”Billboard”: Who would have thought before 2014 began that Sia, responsible for co-writing so many indelible pop treats, from Rihanna’s “Diamonds” to David Guetta’s “Titanium”, would have come up with the year’s best single as a solo artist? This towering YOLO anthem took months to reach the Top 10, but pop purveyors embraced its sentiment and Sia’s performance almost immediately, turning the camera-shy Australian into an American star. Few could have seen this coming, and an unforeseen triumph like this helps make pop music so exciting as an art form.
Publius: What the hell is a “YOLO”? Well produced and highly original. It’s strange how even major key tunes today are dark and haunting. Great video!
That’s it for tonight – thank God! – although I’ll be hanging around the Canteen until 1 AM Pacific. This weekend it’s January 1980, happier music for a more innocent time. Cue the Rockumentary theme!
All the women’s voices sound pretty much alike. Not a bad tune, though. At least it was “listenable”. LOL! [is that a word?]
It’s a word. Now I understand why people are acting the way they are.
LOL!
Well, I am the only soul up prowling about so I will have to be quiet. No banging drums or loud cheering, I may not last until midnight.
Terrible to get old. :-)
There are not even those. Zeus has even already gone to sleep.
Happy New Year!!
I see the same in animation and film.
Live action becomes homogenized by computer, Scenes are shot against green-screen and CGI locations are filled in afterward, and cartoons are no longer meticulously drawn, buy are all done by computer.
Whether it’s Godzilla, the Transformers, the ninja Turtles, or even the interiors in a historical flick like “Valkyrie”, CGI changes the standard of what we perceive. Everything becomes so “precise’ that reality is altered, and nothing is exciting anymore. The art of using ingenuity and illusion to create Special Effects is being eliminated by a computer program.
I would rather watch an Classic Star Trek with its hokey salt shaker medical instruments than the current movies with 100% CGI effects. I was enchanted by the first Star Wars and bored by the subsequent ones.
And I love Classic Disney, where hundreds of thousands of painstakingly drawn characters dance through the multi-plane matte paintings, but I can’t even stand a few minutes of “Frozen”.
At first, computers opened the door to more creativity, and i heartily embraced digital multi-track recording and various electronic instruments.
But, as far as the Arts are concerned, it feels as though “Skynet has become self-aware” and is crushing human creativity.
And I can’t help but wonder...would the Sistine chapel, Beethoven’s ninth, Chartres Cathedral, E=MC2, or Shakespeare’s Plays have been BETTER if their creators had had access to a computer?
Even contemporary “classical” music has been ruined by MIDI with people using copy-and-paste. My classical musician friends are caustic about what computers have done to their world.
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