> is still around to only minor success. What is shoved down people's throats
> on the radio, tv, and commercials is bullsh*t like Nelly, Ja Rule, Cash
> Money allstars, Jay-Z, Ludacris, P. Diddy, DMX, and R&B/ Hip Hop crossovers
> Jagged Edge, J- Lo, Ashanti, Eve, etc. It's makes sick and saddened by the
> state of so- called urban music. The only thing saving it is stuff like Jill
So, if YOU don't like it but "the ignorant masses" do, it must have
been force-fed to them? No offense, but I don't quite think it works
that way. Personally, I don't much like e.g. the mainstream bling bling
hiphop thing you're referring to in the passage quoted above, but I know
many who do, even though they very well know different kind of music
exists. I know people who have seen Common or Lootpack live here,
thought they were boring and kept listening to whatever more mainstream
stuff they were listening to before.
I think it would be healthy to each one of us to understand, that
although for many of us music, and not any music but only certain kind
of music, is the thing world more or less revolves around, this is not
true for many others. Some people have as obsessive relationship with a
another style of off-mainstream music you or me might find terrible,
like hard NRG, death metal or Bavarian alpenhorn & accordeon music
(sorry for the inaccurate term in case someone on the list is heavily
into that stuff.. =). Most people just like to have something in the
background they can hum to while working or doing the dishes.
I think the world would be an immensely boring place if everyone was
only into the same kind of music as myself (although I'm pretty much
into any kind of music, if it's good, from trance to klezmer) and
nothing else. Little progression would happen in music if people of
different musical preferences didn't get together from time to time and
fuse something from those different musical backgrounds (think how most
styles of music were born). And surely there are other valuable pursuits
in life than collecting obscure acid jazz vinyl. =)
Different strokes for different folks. Nothing more complicated than
that. Personally, I think we're currently living the musically richest
time in history, so what if you don't like what's on MTV? Turn the TV
off and go to your specialist record store, your local club, the
internet... There is more good music in the world that any of us are
ever going to get to hear in the scope of one lifetime. And more is
coming every day, with an ever increasing pace. I could spend my salary
many times over just to get the great new music coming out, not to
mention digging back in the crates.
So my bottom line is: chill out. If you don't like it, fine, but
instead of complaining why other people aren't into "our music", dig
deeper yourself. It's a lot more rewarding.
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