WolfAtTheDoor

it struck me the other day when my girlfriend claimed that there is so much new music about today that without me, she wouldn't have a clue what she likes. It seems like a pretty passable quotation from a reasonably ill-informed girl, but it got me thinking - there is a LOT of new music about today, isn't there? it's ****ing mental

with the rise of myspace and all that business, everyone is picking up a guitar and becoming the next big thing. in fact, there aren't even any next big things these days. everyone knows that it's completely pointless getting too excited over a new band because they'll all release a good few demos up on myspace then release a **** album and then completely vanish.

it just seems like music has far excelled past the day where people could unite in the love of a band, the time where music completely influenced modern society and had the ability to change people. there's so much of it out there that rather than there being to embrace a particular movement with all of your friends beside you, the 'in it together' experience, all you have is one big musical jumble sale where everyone is taking a band each, enjoying them, and then disposing of them the next week.

walking arm in arm singing oasis song after oasis song, drinking to the stones, having a spliff with i wanna be adored banging on the background, in love with the stone roses so much that you feel like ian brown will come into the room and give you blowbacks any ****ing second.

music is growing beyond all expectations, it's impact is dying... what happens now?

The Unfan

People will get over themselves.

WolfAtTheDoor

i'm sorry i thought we were on a music discussion site

what would you like to talk about?

gunnels

Music isn't about becoming the next big thing, and everyone worshipping todays biggest band.
It's as much as an artform as dancing, painting, and poetry.

Actually, poetry is a good thing to compare music to, as music is in itself, poetry with intruments.
Let's say your local misanthrope makes a poem, and he recites it at the local coffee joint. Some snap, some don't. Some connect with it, some are lost.
Some take it as a grandmother dying, some see it as a guy taking a dump in the street.
The poet doesn't care what kind of reaction he gets (although thats not to say that he doesn't appreciate a standing ovation), as the whole point of the poem was to express himself.
That following week, he practices and progresses in his artform and goes back in to recite at Milky's next week.

Music works the same way, it's a way to express your self and challenge your artistic abilities.

As for the music consumer, everyone liking the same band would be boring, as it would probably turn into one big fanboyism mush.
Instead, they find the occasional band thats makes their brow twitch. Thats not to say they should go on every forum on the web yelling how much they suck. Instead, they should consider that band a challenge, and find things they like about it, and discuss with friends. Find opinions, things you never noticed, lyrics you didn't get before, and talent you overlooked.

Thats what I think, anyway.

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The Unfan

You are so naive.

Wifey Boozer

It shouldn't be, but **** that one hears on the radio nowadays, even **** you don't hear on the radio, **** that's "underground" on "myspace", that's what it seems to be about, that's what the majority of airheads with earbuds in their ears are making it about. You know how many people own iPod shuffles with 1GB of music on them? They are selling these things smaller (in size - because I don't mean to say that the new ones are less GBs, PaperHurricanes bought me a 120 GB for Xmas<3, one of the new, bigger sized ones) in store, as a marketing technique... people are into "the smaller the better" nowadays. We've got the small-as-**** iPods, mp3s, ****in' cell phone's that plug into your ears (essentially), laptops will now be called knee-tops, goddamn Virginia Super-Super-Super Slim Thin Thins in a box that looks like an elongated square... but I digress. My apologies. Back to the music. They sell these things in store, shuffles, 1GB, as a marketing technique because it's cool, and it's tiny, and it looks cute. You're a teenage girl, you walk into the store, you've got 50 bucks on you, you want a new accessory that looks good when you've got the longest, thinnest cigarette known to man in your hand. Manufacturors (sp?) of mass musical devices, like iPods and mp3 players and the likes, do not care about the music any more. Does anybody in the business, really? Does any big label, really? It's the timeless question. If anyone's making money, why would they?

It should be. It was. Rarely still is. Wish it was. I agree with Wolf that the bonding over music isn't there anymore. There's just so much there and so much new **** out and so much new **** to try, it's hard for anyone to have anything in common to bond over anymore. And that depresses me. The impact is there - it's just that the impact it's having is that with all the convenience of the new generation(s), we're breeding apathy. We're making a giant Franken**** and then complaining about it. But that being said, what can we really do? Nothing.

It should be. But is it? Could we try and prove it? No, no we couldn't. It's all subjective. And what we also create in this generation, for the smarter portion of us, is great cynicism (which is not bad if used properly), so so much for that. No doubt some modern bands/groups/artists are like that, what with expressing themselves and challenging their abilities... hopefully most are, or I weep more for the future than I ever have before.

I agree to the 10th degree, everyone liking the same thing would be boring. Though I don't think that was the original intention of the initial post... it's that no one's bonding anymore over anything, because there's just so much ****, and because there is, there's no impact, no time to let things settle and sink in. Everything's hyperactive. But for the most part, I agree with that paragraph there.


And by the way, I'm not picking on you , I just saw your post as a great coversation stimulator for this particular thread. Kudos.

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I dunno how someone could say so much and yet so little at the same time. Of course theres 'bonding' over music, the idea that there isn't is bull****, i love the fact that you've put that guys nonsense in your sig.

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That Part Chimp album is still blowing me away and i'm listening to the MB comp and it's the most ecclectic insane thing i've heard in quite a while.

Music's lost it's impact? Pah!

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Music may have lost its ability to knock you on your ass for some, but I'm still very much like that, and it can be for something I love but haven't heard in ages or something I'm hearing for the very first time.

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