Is Western Music Actually Interesting or Is It Just Picking Influence Off the $ Menu?

Lisnaholic · 01-02-2020, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

is modern Western music actually interesting or is it just pampered artists picking influences off the dollar menu? People talk all day about the democratization of music and how it makes music better but is it just goofy white people assuming that choice means quality in the same way that goofy white people assume that choice in the market place makes for better products? Cause as far as I can tell all this choice just makes for an uninteresting smorgasbord of generic **** that no one cares about unless they're obsessed with the cultural minutiae of what artist is hot or not.

^ "Interesting," which is at the core of this question, is a very subjective term and we all know the standard answer of "Everyone is entitled to like what they like." And if anyone finds modern Western music boring, what's the problem? These days it's easy enough to move to something different: into music of the past or music of the non-West.

When I see some modern artists, I often think of a line by John B.Sebastian: "For each new person there's a new first time." He was talking about love but it applies to music too: people like to see music that's live and current, and to someone, that music will be new, even if for jaded MBer Batlord it's "an uninteresting smorgasbord of generic **** that no one cares about." (Great phrase btw!)