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LITURGY is fixing heavy metal, and there's nothing you can do to stop them
Johnny C:
you don't have to listen to them then! but i'm always fascinated by artists talking about their art – i usually find it insightful or interesting, and it often gives me a perspective that i think is an important one to consider. i'd rather artists did think about what their art says. the good ones always seem to.
Johnny C:
i'm actually deliberately not because i still haven't sat down and listened to a liturgy song. i just find the whole "the author is dead the art is the only thing that can and should speak" to be like horribly reactionary + rooted in weird 60s revolutionary art ideology that like fifty years later i think it seems weird to be stuck on.
and – so what if someone like pollock knows what he wanted to do with splashes of paint? why is there a problem with that? why is the artist's perspective somehow bad as opposed to, say, if you saw it in person and turned to a friend and said "there's a lot of [x emotion] that i get out of this"? said friend would start to think about it in those terms. when i'm that friend, i usually appreciate that. it's why i read record and film reviews and criticism. i find that stuff interesting.
it's totally fine if you don't find it interesting! but those things don't necessarily devalue the art, nahmean?
Akima:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 17 Apr 2011, 18:01 ---i'd rather artists did think about what their art says.
--- End quote ---
Oh absolutely yes! I just feel that it is the art-work that should express it, not the liner-notes.
Johnny C:
that's fine! i think it's mainly a matter of preference. i'm okay with artists explicating what they mean to do, and in fact i actually usually like it, but that's probably because i come from like an academic background in western literature, where that's kind of the norm, partially because of tradition and partially because the people drawn to creating western lit can't shut up (case in point, this post).
Johnny C:
i dunno about that, necessarily! there's a lot i've been convinced to re-evaluate after hearing people talk about it.
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