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Lie to me, pop-music-makers. I'm cool with it.
wasn't that what I was doing?
why so irritated then.
you're far to difficult, its over. -
the odd gem hidden within' the pop machine.
not confusing the machine with the ingredients put into it.
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and just used the voice as an extra instrument
sigur ros and occasionally the cocteau twins have nothing to say in words so they do just as you said, use the human voice as a instrument.
not so much entertainment as moving and beautiful, which is a statement in itself, something worth saying?
"The greatest lyric ever, IMO, is 'A wop bop a loo bop, a wop bam boom'.
in this case its not what's said but how it was said and in what context. that small line of meaningless words meant a hell of a lot at the time.
Whenever anyone mentions that a musician has something to say I know it's not for me.
I know that feeling and it hasn't been help by years of nothing to say music by people who could add or convey something but choose to say very little. I don't doubt that the beatles in the hippy phase conveyed important messages to people that needed to hear it, and there's a lot that could be said that isn't in the modern world, and those that do choose to say it (pink and her political song, kill me now) say it in a way that comes across as insincere)
And really, who are these people that can hold a tune and thing they've also got something to add to our lives. there's nothing major any of them could say that will enlighten us.
occasionally you do get something small that you click with. I really like the lyrics to SJD's Beautiful Haze. Not a world saving message but a little insight into the a shared world, nicely observed.all that said though, music as a means of communicating without words is totally valid. practically every movie ever made uses music to enhance mood, convey unspoken messages.
take music out of horror movies and you won't be that scared.
take it out of thrillers and it won't be that thrilling.
take the pictures away and you still get the picture. -
the authenticity is almost irrelevant. If you feel something when listening to it, then it's authentic for *you*.
you're such a romantic, we should date.
and that since popular music is, fundamentally, all artifice,
where'd you get that notion from. all pop music means is that its popular, there's no stipulation that you should be insincere or fake about it, although some are its true, but not your bf (j timberlake?), he really means it, no seriously, he REALLY means it, he's going to love you forever, you're the only one for him, he didn't even notice those other three girls over by the bar making love to him with their eyes,, he's gonna hold you in his arms and whisper sweet 'nothings' to you as you fall asleep deep in the knowledge that everything's gonna be alright..........baby,
I should write this crap for a living (if it hadn't already all been written b4), it ain't so hard and the audience is undemanding and gullible, and authenticity is irrelevant, almost
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Nor do they care, they just want to be entertained.
Then of course there is that other lesser known almost fallen by the wayside use for music...
to communicate, to connect,Allegedly in some distant corners of the world there are remote tribes that still use music to convey a message, and idea or feeling, to connect artist with audience.
Obviously in modern western society we've mostly done away with such frivolity, mostly because when our top entertainment people, who work hard to get as much air time as possible get round to presenting their pre-packaged manufactured in a boardroom target market lowest common denominator pap they find that not only have they got nothing to say there really is nothing much they can say that won't alienate a crucial corner of the market.
So they fill the air with noise, meaningless entertaining noise.
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so we sold her contract to Festival who had the bucks to let her do what she wanted to do
so its your fault she siphoned of mountains of cash from nz on air producing radio pap and video clothes horse nonsense.
why oh why when she asked you "do you think my songs are any good I was in true bliss etc" didn't you say, please, get a job in a cafe. you and your manufactured stars simon :)
if you want to play god why don't you start out on something simple like shrubs or small aquatic animals. -
Carly made here own records of course
yeah sure she did.......
all by herself. no help from anyone, burnt them all off individually on her laptop too, -
you can sizzle a drummer?
well yes you can but more importantly a drummer can sizzle a hi hat in which ever way you tell them too, unless the sizzle nathan was referring to was the vinyl stylus combination.
I wonder if Nathan would mind me sampling his albums. like the whole lot to mp3,....... :)
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to get just the right moment of hi-hat sizzle to sample...
has he never heard of a drummer and a microphone?
drummers are kinda like drum machines although you only have to punch the info into a drum machine once.
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I was going to say carly binding but you did say they were credible so that rules her out