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Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 12 Dec 2009, 10:34 ---Come on. He never said the things he liked were better, he said they were different. I can quite easily accept that the criticism of Top 40 music has got to be different to the criticism of indie music just based on the different criteria for judging value that are involved.
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Yeah but the idea that you can't talk about them the same way as [band x] is kinda nebulous at best and backhandedly insulting at worst.
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 12 Dec 2009, 09:30 ---Mind you, someone complaining about people talking about things other than top 40 hip-hop and r&b when they could just make a thread for that is a bit silly.
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Well except that's what the thread was about at the kickoff, it was about this:
as opposed to the Rhymesayers stuff that we wind up encountering in every attempt to talk about hip-hop on this forum.
KharBevNor:
I wasn't saying you can't. I'm just saying that if you try and talk about Top 40 music without bringing in metrics like, well, popularity, you won't really be covering it properly, and that these metrics aren't important for real good other sorts of music.
Johnny C:
Actually there are plenty of intrinsic qualities to the music that you can talk about!
Professor Snuggles:
For example, how sick this HEALTH remix of OJ is. The beat works way better with his highpitched mediocre rapping than one would expect. Sometimes I think OJ is actually better than Gucci.
That said, I feel like most of these tracks aren't going to be that good, or as good as the originals, at least.
Johnny, I feel like the point here is that people would rather criticize other's taste that they disagree with and assume that since it has characteristics that they dislike on principle (autotune, simple lyrics, etc) it is completely devoid of merit.
Speaking of autotune, I am kind of really intrigued by the fact that Kells is autotuning himself on some tracks. I figured that was just a thing to do if you can't sing that well, so the fact that he, with his amazing voice, is using it makes it seem more like an instrument, which is really cool, I think.
BrittanyMarie:
I've noticed that on quite a few tracks; I mentioned Transform Ya before and Chris Brown uses it in there too, I'd assume to sound like a robot.
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