Re: Negative music.../ Positive Solutions

From: Tom Giles (thomas.giles@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 21:46:08 CEST

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    > So what do you think is happening in the studio anyway? You're saying
    > that Timbaland, Missy, Dre, and the like are just working away in a
    > factory, while Dego is doing some Jackson Pollack running up on
    > ladders and tossing paint on the floor?
    >
    > I think BOTH of them are trying to define themselves by coming up with
    > their own sound. One sells 4 million and one sells 40 thousand. Does
    > that mean, ipso facto, that Dego is "better" or "purer?" (And btw,
    > you're talking with a cat who has all 4 Hero stuff and no Jay Z.)
    Steve i agree. the difference between say say Jay Z and Dego
    cannot not be put simply in terms of sales figures, or amount of
    work done etc. And to some extent we are being snobby on this
    list. But it has got something to do with popularity though... Jay Z
    tries to be more popular, not that we can fault him for it, and in
    doing so steers clear of certain sounds, certain chord progressions
    or whatever. To people like us this is reasonably boring, we're
    interested in our music and so want to hear something a little bit
    different.
    Even though people like Timbaland or Missy are really very creative
    with their beats and rhymes and so forth, they try to produce a sort
    of catchy sound, or a pleasing sound, or a reasonably-easy-to-get-
    into kinda sound. And this is what i don't like about much pop
    music. If everybody listened to Herbert i wouldn't be listening to
    Billie just because very few other people were!
    Tom



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