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British musician/designer living in Lithuania.
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In reply to this comment by MINK:
education is a problem, but i think the money is a bigger problem. money and art are just incompatible somehow. I think it would take a lot of regulation to get more variety in the charts, ironically. More rules, more variety.
Trouble is designing the rules
i think if the internet really does end the reign of big labels it will be a good thing, but i know that big labels will always have the trump card of marketing budget. Money gravitates to itself, and gets together in a bunch to force people to like stuff they wouldn't like if there was a level playing field.
What people think is their opinion is always passed through the filter before it gets to them. That's why i stress exploration and having varied sources. You can apply that to anything, not just music.
Imagine saying: I just LIKE the theory of intelligent design, don't be such a snob with your evolution and your "evidence", it's all just a matter of interpretation.
lol
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Actually I appreciate most of what you said. I agree that if people spent more time learning about music (or any other art form, for that matter) then there would be a lot less crapola plaguing our culture because people would stop listening to Britney Spears and Ashlee Simpson. But what are you gonna do? As long as there's been art there has been shitty art. I imagine that some of the earliest cave drawings also shared space with crudely drawn boners ejaculating into Neanderthal faces.
If you're in a sewer surrounded by turds, it might be slightly more tolerable if one of those turds makes you happy for some bizarre reason. Maybe it looks like a banana.
In reply to this comment by MINK:
because of taste, and biology.
lol
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
But I REALLY like bananas!
In reply to this comment by MINK:
i was more referring to the bit where he rotates right, the tracks go in opposite directions, carve up the road, and leave 2 dark splodges which will be potholes in 2 days. No?
Not to say there isn't any damage, I'm sure it's worse then a car with rubber tires but I've seen the national guard run tracks over pavement without hardly any evidence that one has been there.
In reply to this comment by MINK:
do they repair the road after fucking it up with tank tracks? (serious question)
If you're in a sewer surrounded by turds, it might be slightly more tolerable if one of those turds makes you happy for some bizarre reason. Maybe it looks like a banana.
In reply to this comment by MINK:
because of taste, and biology.
lol
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
But I REALLY like bananas!
In reply to this comment by MINK:
I just disagree. there IS such thing as "good" music, and there is such thing as "crap" music. but there's some different issues getting mixed up here, so let me explain...
The comparison to filet mignon and bananas is pathetic. Man did not create bananas. Nobody had the choice of creating a totally new plant and decided on the banana. The banana is not art. You could even say the banana is a higher form of food than filet mignon, because god/evolution made it over a period of billions of years. That has nothing to do with 2unlimited making a pop song.
anyway. i could write a book about this but... consider this question:
is it possible to study music?
if you answer yes, then please stop with your postpostpostmodern "it's just my opinion" bullshit. There is a theory of music. It works. Pop sells because it uses the theory very well. Bad songs don't use the theory well. The theory is scientific. If you study it you will write "better" songs. Some people have better intuition, but you can study it.
Some writers, for example Elton John, churn out the same stuff over and over, and i personally can't stand it. But it is good music. I would prefer if he innovated more, and i vomit at the thought of having to endure one of his concerts, but i have to accept that he is a master songwriter. Not just because of his popularity and durability, although that's a pretty good indicator.
You are getting confused by genres. There is good pop and bad pop, good techno and bad techno, good classical music and bad classical music (but we kinda lost all the bad classical over time, because it was bad, so now it looks like all classical music was perfect)
You might not like these modern repetitive drum sounds, but your african ancestors did.
You might prefer Kylie to Celine Dion, but they both make good quality music. People use the words "bad" and "good" to encompass all things, but i would argue that there are fundamentals at work, and then your preference is a thin layer on top.
Peronally, I call Celine Dion "bad" but i am expressing an opinion on the way she does not innovate, she goes for the easy win, and i think innovation is essential because it's how we got to the great music we have today. But hey, not everyone wants to contribute, some people just want to cash in.
Bjork is right that if music makes you happy, you should listen to it and enjoy it and not worry about snobs.
BUT
She, and the commenters above, are wrong to dismiss the idea that you could actually educate yourself and improve your taste
Taste isn't a lucky dip of equally valid choices, it is a scale from bad taste to good taste.
A person with good taste usually likes many genres, but chooses the particular songs and artists carefully. He/she usually plays an instrument or sings or has studied music or has had parents who constantly played good music in the house. Coincidence? Or education?
I am not just being technical here, music has many facets which take more than 15 seconds and an IQ of 56 to appreciate, and the music industry and media distort the supply of music, and governments don't seem interested in teaching music, so look at the crap we get.
In summary, i just can't stand it when people say it's all a matter of taste. It is not that simple.
it should be noted that bjork has never made a shitty song in her life ... so is she just saying that's it's an accident that she was born with the same tastes as millions of people? Or is there something fundamentally powerful in her music that makes people change their tastes... to move their tastes closer to hers, because they learnt something without even noticing. Does she just write whatever frequencies she feels like? Or does she use a piano with strings tightened to frequencies which are mysteriously "good" and accepted by billions of people?
Does anyone "prefer" the 6.34572/42 time signature?? No.
Would you accept that the reason you don't understand some music is because you are ignorant? You say you "don't like it" as if you've taken the time to study it and come to a knowledgeable conclusion. I guess you haven't.
You just say it's all about taste because you can't be bothered to learn anything.
school is quite obviously bullshit. i just can't begin to "back that up" because... it's so obvious. you think the current way we teach children is the best way to get the maximum potential out of the human race?
nahh mate, it's just babysitting and brainwashing. and a few good bits if you're lucky.
In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
School is bullshit? Care to back that one up?
I see what you're saying. The idea of school isn't bullshit, but the way we go about it is.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL2578236020080125
Ento smishno! Hhaah!
In reply to this comment by MINK:
ninada... yest litovski
gospodi, spaseebo za evropietski soyuz.
In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
ha! te znaesh shto ana tolika lubit tebe za britanski passport
In reply to this comment by MINK:
niochen.
In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
te russki znayesh?
In reply to this comment by MINK:
aha!! on robotayet!!
But again, I really appreciate the fact that you've justified your downvote.
In reply to this comment by MINK:
no it's just i am prepared to actually use my downvote and other people think it's rude or something.
here's 148 pages of videos i have upvoted:
http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK/votedup
In reply to this comment by Bakalex:
As far as I've seen, MINK = downvote.
But thank you for having given reasons. Downvoters should at least do that.
In reply to this comment by MINK:
downvote for these reasons:
1) It shouldn't be such a freakout that there's more than one language in the world.
2) It was boring.
3) Dubbing is the work of the devil. Subtitles ftw.
4) Disappointing breasts.
In reply to this comment by MINK:
niochen.
In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
te russki znayesh?
In reply to this comment by MINK:
aha!! on robotayet!!
In reply to this comment by MINK:
aha!! on robotayet!!
But thank you for having given reasons. Downvoters should at least do that.
In reply to this comment by MINK:
downvote for these reasons:
1) It shouldn't be such a freakout that there's more than one language in the world.
2) It was boring.
3) Dubbing is the work of the devil. Subtitles ftw.
4) Disappointing breasts.