sadmanbarty
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it's quite emotional music - some of it anyway. It can bring me to tears.
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you're menopausal now though, that's just par for the course. hot flashes and all that.
it's quite emotional music - some of it anyway. It can bring me to tears.
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Andrew weatherall was 89 will never die and hence traversed deep house, nose bleed techno/ambient/dub techno, and electro but without being able to fully commit to any of them.
As for trance - depends which kind of trance, some of it is the coldest deadest stiffest music this side of gabba - but then there's all that Eurocheese fluffy trance is really wet. Paul Van Dyk writing "Like An Angel" about his girlfriend.
I’d counter that by arguing the thematic narrowness forces artists to be more creative elsewhere. Migos sticking to very rigid subject matter has forced them to develop the biggest innovation in us rapping since rakim.
Bob dylan’s Lyric centrism has meant he can produce music completely devoid of any emotional resonance or sonic merit.
The best music of all time (jungle and post-72 mikes Davis) is by and large lyricless.
If I started a thread and someone wrote what I’m about to write I’d be pissed off. Threads are much better when people don’t resoundingly disagree with the underlying premise, but explore it instead.
But to be a hypocrite, I don’t understand what you mean by pop music being anachronistic to soul? I thought it was soul in its purest form. What am I misunderstanding about your usage of the term?
I wasn't using it in some idiosyncratic personal sense. I was using it in the standard, loose sense. Feel free to argue the point but I think when average herd people, bovine grazers, sheep, followers, normies, basic people use it pop is antithetical to soulfulness. Granted pop is a capacious stocking; Will Young, Rita Ora, Stepz, Little Minx.
Running with soul as ‘authenticity’ for a bit.
In the 60’s people believed in music having the ability to effect change; civil rights, Vietnam, etc.
Since then audience’ and artist’s scopes have increasingly reduced.
We’ve reached the point where some would argue that artists aren’t saying anything. Empty, tokenistic gestures to a handful of well worn topics; guns, sex, dancing, love and drugs.
i'm not 40. i've never, ever heard a person use the word "soul" in conversation.
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Do you not remember the pattycAkes post I was referring to?
What about "vibe" and "groovy"?