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05-12-2015, 01:18 PM | #10491 (permalink) | |||||||||||
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Ugh fine.
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The Knife devoted an entire album of incredibly unique, progressive music in 2013 that was an entirely political piece of art addressing feminism, gender normality, heteronormativity, classism, racism, and the concept of privilege. It's Called Shaking the Habitual and that album refutes every point you've made on it's own. Death Grips is incredibly political. They literally put their drummer's erect penis as an album cover. From Wikipedia. Quote:
Holly Herndon addresses internet culture and the NSA in a lot of her music, and her music is also an amazing commentary on the segregation of the academic art world vs the hyper accessible one. Quote:
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05-20-2015, 09:49 AM | #10492 (permalink) |
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More often than not, vocally driven music is pretty boring.
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05-20-2015, 12:31 PM | #10493 (permalink) |
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Define vocally driven please. I'm not sure what you mean.
A lot of avant garde music is weird just for the sake of being weird and really holds no true artistic merit. And those who argue otherwise are doing so just to try and come across as edgy, i.e; pretentious.
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05-20-2015, 12:44 PM | #10494 (permalink) | |
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When the entire song is based around what the singer is doing and instrumentally, the band is just there to count to four.
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05-20-2015, 12:55 PM | #10496 (permalink) |
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Artistic merit equals achieving a perceived level of harmonic quality - IMO.
And weird for the sake of weird is the same as punk bands who purposely wouldn't tune their instruments. Or garage rock bands that went for the worst lo-fi sound possible. What's the point? Just yelling at clouds here.
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05-20-2015, 12:56 PM | #10497 (permalink) |
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I will freely admit I've made quite a few tracks where my sole goal was to be weird for the sake of being weird
So Chula's not totally off base although it's definitely not a black-and-white situation, and making a song just to be weird doesn't necessarily mean it's not artistic
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05-20-2015, 12:56 PM | #10498 (permalink) |
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Yeah we know. I was forced to listen to Led Zeppelin for a few minutes yesterday. Still hate Robert Plants voice. His face doesn't help.
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05-20-2015, 12:57 PM | #10499 (permalink) |
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Unpopular opinion: it doesn't matter how technical, analog, composed, or artistic music is. What matters is if the music is good or not.
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05-20-2015, 01:00 PM | #10500 (permalink) |
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Some would say that is a function of the composition. I agree with playing it and putting it in its rightful place, the garbage or the collection.
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