I want to promote modern day Libertine philosophies instead, where morality and empathy are wholly devoured.
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Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation is probably one of the most famous (and best, imo), socially conscious albums.
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I'd also put forward Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Fear of a Black Planet as two very important and successful socially conscious albums from that same period. Any others? |
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Microloans are great. I'm glad you are planning to contribute to Kiva. Quote:
http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...tml#post907260 Again, welcome! - Erica |
Hi Erica (VEGANGELICA), thank you so much for your positive and encouraging post. I was beginning to wonder if the majority of people on this forum are as amoral as they sound.
It has been good to receive such mixed responses to my idea –*that is what I came here for really, to find out what people think. The whole project has been locked away in my comfort zone for too long. If it ever goes anywhere I will have to be able to defend it. I will definitely visit the activist song thread. |
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"I want to promote modern day Libertine philosophies instead, where morality and empathy are wholly devoured." Nobody else has even mentioned morality, and most have rightly been questioning whether my motivation comes from a moral place or if its just self promotion. Guess I should have been more specific, apologies. |
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I hear you, too, about the importance of being able to get out of your comfort zone, Seth. I had an art instructor in college who said to me essentially, "Your art tends to be so pretty and controlled. When are you going to let yourself really express how you feel? If you aren't safe to do that in college, when do you think you'll be able to?" At the time I answered inside, "I don't know." His question always stuck with me, though. I think getting your project out of your comfort zone by sharing it is a great idea for personal and social reasons. You wondered earlier in the thread about music similar to what you have planned (where you take famous people's socially conscious, spoken words and accentuate the rhythm of natural human speech). I don't know of whole songs that are like that...I've just heard songs that use excerpts of famous speeches. Maybe someone here who knows more about music than I will be able to answer your question. |
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In my idealistic and optimistic fantasy I have been assuming that most people are also fed up with self-serving musicians not actually saying much of anything other than issues to do entirely with themselves. Not only do I not actually know if this is true but I may have ironically missed how much it could actually apply to me. Ouch. In the past I have done what most musicians do which is to reside comfortably in anonymity behind aliases and personas. The reason people do this is avoid being confronted with themselves. Therein lies the difficulty. Thanks everybody so far for your reactions and sorry for implying that any of you may be amoral (except for KMS, who has made this clear already). |
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