I was driving from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa last night so I had a good hour to ponder my taste in Music. I have been in a bit of an Indy stage the past year or so and I found myself slipping into the mindset that if a song is released by a major record label or reaches the top 40, then it has to be uninspired and meaningless.
I am not sure if that is true.
It did get me thinking though, how am I supposed to quantify whether a song is 'good' or 'bad'?
Take a fictional token pop star, we will call her Brittany Timberlake.
Brittany is an attractive 19 year old with a decent singing voice. Someone writes some lyrics that have been focus grouped and approved, then they purchase a track from some warehouse vendor.
Brittany comes into the studio and sings what they put in front of her. After some intensive editing and maybe a little synth mixed in for originality, we have the new track that is sweeping the nations clubs and top 40 radio stations. From top to bottom it was an efficient, profitable process.
Is there anything about this process that is artistic or valuable?
My theory is that all these pop songs, starting around Elvis and moving forward are pieces of a whole music history, and we will be remembered as a people for music that we embraced.
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Found it a very interesting theory.
ReplyDeleteI found myself slipping into the same mindset at one point. Just recently I came to the point that sometimes (sadly) that music is not always about the art and we as consumers have to come to grips with this and deal with it.
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