30 day meme, day 16
Dec. 28th, 2010 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sprinkletheifDay 16 - Your views on mainstream music.
meh. i've never really been into the mainstream music, even as a kid. as a kid my mom got me into things like the ramones and the sex pistols (you should see some of my elementary school pictures. i had a crimped mowhawk, wearing a vandals shirt and a suitcoat. i can only imagine what my teachers were thinking...). it seems to me that the underbelly of music is more enduring than what's mainstream, but that could always be a false consensus effect on my part. it seems like mainstream music retains some sort of a campy quality to it while the "underground" has an almost timeless feel. not to say there isn't campy underground music, but it seems to have less notoriety.
currently i still have little to no idea as to what's popular in music. the only time i was even remotely up to date was working in a strip club where i heard the same newer songs over and over again daily. i'll hear songs and i'm told that they're popular, but i couldn't tell you who they were by. sometimes i'll hear them and laugh my ass off, thinking its a joke, until i realize that people really seriously like this crap. the age of talented musicians is long over. we've got the auto-tune craze currently, and it seems like band members are more employees of whatever icon is being featured on the forefront.
or maybe i'm just old and bitter.
meh. i've never really been into the mainstream music, even as a kid. as a kid my mom got me into things like the ramones and the sex pistols (you should see some of my elementary school pictures. i had a crimped mowhawk, wearing a vandals shirt and a suitcoat. i can only imagine what my teachers were thinking...). it seems to me that the underbelly of music is more enduring than what's mainstream, but that could always be a false consensus effect on my part. it seems like mainstream music retains some sort of a campy quality to it while the "underground" has an almost timeless feel. not to say there isn't campy underground music, but it seems to have less notoriety.
currently i still have little to no idea as to what's popular in music. the only time i was even remotely up to date was working in a strip club where i heard the same newer songs over and over again daily. i'll hear songs and i'm told that they're popular, but i couldn't tell you who they were by. sometimes i'll hear them and laugh my ass off, thinking its a joke, until i realize that people really seriously like this crap. the age of talented musicians is long over. we've got the auto-tune craze currently, and it seems like band members are more employees of whatever icon is being featured on the forefront.
or maybe i'm just old and bitter.
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Date: 2010-12-28 05:28 pm (UTC)I do that too! I thought Ice Ice Baby was a joke at first.
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Date: 2010-12-28 05:30 pm (UTC)i honestly thought lady gaga was a joke at first, but now i think she's kind of interesting. her music doesn't do much for me but i like that she looks like she's from outer space, lol.
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Date: 2010-12-28 05:32 pm (UTC)