Why Your Music Should Not Be Complex Just For It's Own Sake
As a lover of pop rock who has recently started to listen prog rock, because the only one who suffers when you reject one genre completely, is yourself. So at least one should try. And what I have found is that prog is a worthy genre. Usually every genre, where it generally good or not, has something good to offer:
Generic AOR soft rock gave us Eagles (they suck though, but their debut is a good album...)
Euro Dance/Pop/ Dance Pop gave us Abba. I know, I should be ashamed, and I am, but I can't resist their melodies
Punk gave us Ramones
And so on. You get my point? You should never reject one genre completely. At least not without trying to get into it.
However, one problem is, in my humble opinion, usual when it comes to prog. Is it necessary? I mean, are your song complex because you have enough ideas and ambitions to do so, or are they complex because of complexity is cool
For example, if you do one ten minute long song, chances are a) it is great masterpiece or b) the stream of your ideas runs dry in the middle and you fill the rest with something that sounds cool, but is not. Something that sounds pleasant enough but in reality is nothing.
That problem I have had with Yes, and occasionally King Crimson. Mainly with Yes, but maybe the more I listen to them, I get used with it, I dunno.
Of course, the same goes for other genres. If you play punk and you have more complex ideas tha you should, why do you play punk? Why you make things simplistic just it's own sake? If you wanna write a ballad, why you should not?
That goes to show, the whole genre thing is useless when it limits your creativity. If punk band releases ballad or prog band releases pop song, people call them sell-outs. But that is completely useless. But who cares which genre it is if it sounds good?
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Also I'd like to wish
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE
let's hope it's a good one without any fear...and so on. Ain't it a bit naive?
And what about my plans for this journal? I dunno. I may write about music but I may as well write about something else.
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