Prompted Post Day 16 - Mainstream Music
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ltmurnauday 16 - your views on mainstream music
Blah.
Blah blah blah.
I have heard nothing on the radio or other places you hear mainstream music (e.g. bands on Saturday Night Live, bars and pubs etc.) that was remotely interesting or appealing.
Granted there are songs that people call "earworms" - they have a good beat or a catchy chorus, but they are just piffle backed up by an overly commercial nothing.
Case in point, Lady Gaga - yes, she can write and play a tune but her ideas, visual and musical, are so old hat it's like watching Madonna do Marlene Dietrich in tails all over again.
Her "creative team" is still strip-mining 20th century avant-garde art - the silly juxtapositions they come up with are not even interesting or unusual.
But then again, I have never liked mainstream music.
I got into music late, when I was about 17, but right away I went for the odd stuff - Kraftwerk, the Residents, Devo.
It all just went from there.
In fact, I am surprised there is still something called "mainstream music".
With the means of production, distribution and consumption in everyone's hands through the Internet, music has split into hundreds of genres and yes, there has been an exponential explosion of crap, but the most popular stuff is popular because, well, it's popular.
I guess it's because so many people are as conformist and impressionable as ever.
I ought to re-read Bruce Sterling's novel "Distraction", read it too quickly the first time but it does go into this a bit IIRC.
Day 1 - your current relationship
Day 2 - where you’d like to be in 10 years
day 3 - your views on drugs and alcohol.
day 4 - your views on religion.
day 5 - a time you thought about ending your own life.
day 6 - write 30 interesting facts about yourself.
day 7 - your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality.
day 8 - a moment you felt the most satisfied with your life.
day 9 - how you hope your future will be like.
day 10 - discuss your first love and first kiss.
day 11 - put your ipod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.
day 12 - bullet your whole day.
day 13 - somewhere you’d like to move or visit.
day 14 - your earliest memory.
day 15 - your favourite tumblrs.
day 16 - your views on mainstream music.
day 17 - your highs and lows of this past year.
day 18 - your beliefs.
day 19 - disrespecting your parents.
day 20 - how important you think education is.
day 21 - one of your favourite shows.
day 22 - how have you changed in the past 2 years?
day 23 - give pictures of 5 guys who are famous who you find attractive.
day 24 - your favourite movie and what it’s about.
day 25 - someone who fascinates you and why.
day 26 - what kind of person attracts you.
day 27 - a problem that you have had.
day 28 - something that you miss.
day 29 - goals for the next 30 days.
day 30 - your highs and lows of this month
Blah.
Blah blah blah.
I have heard nothing on the radio or other places you hear mainstream music (e.g. bands on Saturday Night Live, bars and pubs etc.) that was remotely interesting or appealing.
Granted there are songs that people call "earworms" - they have a good beat or a catchy chorus, but they are just piffle backed up by an overly commercial nothing.
Case in point, Lady Gaga - yes, she can write and play a tune but her ideas, visual and musical, are so old hat it's like watching Madonna do Marlene Dietrich in tails all over again.
Her "creative team" is still strip-mining 20th century avant-garde art - the silly juxtapositions they come up with are not even interesting or unusual.
But then again, I have never liked mainstream music.
I got into music late, when I was about 17, but right away I went for the odd stuff - Kraftwerk, the Residents, Devo.
It all just went from there.
In fact, I am surprised there is still something called "mainstream music".
With the means of production, distribution and consumption in everyone's hands through the Internet, music has split into hundreds of genres and yes, there has been an exponential explosion of crap, but the most popular stuff is popular because, well, it's popular.
I guess it's because so many people are as conformist and impressionable as ever.
I ought to re-read Bruce Sterling's novel "Distraction", read it too quickly the first time but it does go into this a bit IIRC.
Day 2 - where you’d like to be in 10 years
day 3 - your views on drugs and alcohol.
day 4 - your views on religion.
day 5 - a time you thought about ending your own life.
day 6 - write 30 interesting facts about yourself.
day 7 - your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality.
day 8 - a moment you felt the most satisfied with your life.
day 9 - how you hope your future will be like.
day 10 - discuss your first love and first kiss.
day 11 - put your ipod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.
day 12 - bullet your whole day.
day 13 - somewhere you’d like to move or visit.
day 14 - your earliest memory.
day 15 - your favourite tumblrs.
day 16 - your views on mainstream music.
day 17 - your highs and lows of this past year.
day 18 - your beliefs.
day 19 - disrespecting your parents.
day 20 - how important you think education is.
day 21 - one of your favourite shows.
day 22 - how have you changed in the past 2 years?
day 23 - give pictures of 5 guys who are famous who you find attractive.
day 24 - your favourite movie and what it’s about.
day 25 - someone who fascinates you and why.
day 26 - what kind of person attracts you.
day 27 - a problem that you have had.
day 28 - something that you miss.
day 29 - goals for the next 30 days.
day 30 - your highs and lows of this month
