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Originally Posted by gunnels
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Music isn't about becoming the next big thing, and everyone worshipping todays biggest band.
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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?
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It's as much as an artform as dancing, painting, and poetry.
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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.
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Music works the same way, it's a way to express your self and challenge your artistic abilities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
