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The Next Big Thing
Ryder:
Interesting thought... hmm.
Eh, if you care about the music it wouldn't matter too much. There will always be good bands around. And one of the best things about this kind of media is that it spans decades after decades. You don't need to be listening to a band formed two years ago, you could be listening to classic work in the genre. Look at Pavement. They started in 89, but for most people, they'd be one of the first recommendations you give to someone.
Too much electronica makes me queasy, anyway.
imagist42:
I wouldn't mind if the next big thing were the lovechild of James Murphy and indie pop.
Sugarplum:
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Shadows Collide:
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--- Quote from: Shadows Collide on 30 Dec 2007, 19:01 ---As long as people don't treat that dance music (Muscles, Daft Punk, Girl Talk etc.) as anything more than it is eg. dumb yet enjoyable electronic sounds that shouldn't be treated on an intellectual level AT ALL. Daft Punk have some really great songs, but it irks me how much music in general is being molded around that kind of music. In 2008 it could "take over" and distract people from good bands that don't follow this trend.
I don't "hate" it but we shouldn't overstate what it really is.
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A lot of this kind of dance music is about capturing feelings. I agree there is nothing super-intellectual about Muscles' (for example) lyrics, but how perfectly he captures/recreates certain feelings has got to be worthy of mention.
I don't really want to harp on about it because I don't want to derail or anything, but I also really take exception to blanketly calling dance music non-intellectual. I hope that's not what you were doing (because there is some rather interesting electronic music and even dance music about) but even in Daft Punk's music there is a lot more going on than you probably give them credit for. I don't know the technical terms for it, but in a lot of "simple mindless dance music" there is a certain layering of sounds, timing of the introduction of new sounds, sound theming within individual songs and across an album, callbacks to previously-introduced concepts, that sort of thing.
I'm not trying to say that fun dance music is a work of genius or anything like that, I just think that saying there is no intellectual level to any of it is a bit of an extreme statement.
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Definitely, I sure never would dismiss an entire genre or deem it pointless etc. But it just kinda annoys me how much of a focus its getting everywhere. A lot of people won't listen to much else than that stuff.
Neither does music have to be intellectual to be awesome, I love a lot of stuff that is just plain fun. Shouldn't music be about enjoying yourself? So yeah I kinda regret my post, but meh, its OK
Jackie Blue:
I blame antidepressants for electronica's popularity.
Seriously.
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