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Arcade Fire Wins Grammy, prompting Americans to wonder who they are anyway
ALoveSupreme:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 14 Feb 2011, 15:52 ---I've noticed over the last year or so that "Indie" music is starting to make inroads into the mainstream in some pretty surprising places. Last Saturday there was a game of Rugby League here in Australia and in the build-up the TV channel broadcasting it, Channel 9 (which is probably the most mainstream TV channel imaginable in Australia) used a song off High Violet by the National as background music! (I think it was "Terrible Love".)
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I heard You!Me!Dancing! on a Miller Lite commercial, like, two months ago... I was like, "dude! that song is 6 years old," how do people get jobs picking background music cause I would be a million times better, apparently...
--- Quote from: Lummer on 15 Feb 2011, 04:01 ---That tumblr just pisses me off. Some people should have no right to say anything about music.
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I also felt inexplicably angry at a couple of things I saw written.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: Melodic on 14 Feb 2011, 23:58 ---
--- Quote from: kwami42 on 14 Feb 2011, 20:49 ---haikus are not six
seven five but five seven
five you silly man
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1 2 3 4 5
ar-cade fire are cool
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d'aw, it's ok buddy it's trying that matters most!
It's great that Arcade Fire won the grammy considering their intensely mediocre album was easily the best of those nominated. More importantly for me, it's confirmed in my mind how far mainstream pop music has sunk and how tragic the whole industry really is. I mean, I knew that already but seeing the backlash against AF's win really highlights how conditioned most people have become into only liking what some monolithic taste making machine churns out ready made for their ignorant, slavish devotion.
Johnny C:
i mean you can view this as "the industry sunk to meet us" the way chris weingarten cynically did OR you can view this as a band that basically made their way in north america the hard way (i.e. touring a fuckload and working with labels that, maybe with the exception of mercury who was their UK distributor on their last record, treat them largely as human beings) earning the same level of visibility within mainstream culture that someone like lady gaga, katy perry, or justin bieber has, without receiving virtually any airplay on pop radio. they did it by touring and by selling the absolute hell out of their records. so the actual "album of the year" part, not so relevant in terms of whether or not that album was actually the best of the year, but as a watermark of collective consciousness, a pretty staunchly independent band winning it is pretty fucking significant, dudes.
kwami42:
Fire is definitely two syllables, y'all crazy
imagist42:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 15 Feb 2011, 03:40 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Feb 2011, 02:08 ---In Japanese tongue,
Nouns don't have a plural form.
Haikus' S is wrong.
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--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Feb 2011, 02:08 ---In Japanese tongue,
Nouns don't have a plural form.
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--- Quote from: Akima on 15 Feb 2011, 02:08 ---In Japanese
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Yeah pretty much the entire point of my post is that poetic forms of foreign languages never ever translate ideally into English and are often better ignored for masterful approximations so, whatever, or something.
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