Chomolungma said:I think you have many good points, however, to suggest that today's rock music is bloated and has excessive bass among others is absolutely a subjective opinion. If there is a such thing as subjective opinion. I think most genre of music needs to be on the cutting edge. We may not understand and appreciate new music just as we sometime do not appreciate cutting edge abstract art. Nonetheless, in due time, the bad new music will fade, and the good music will be incorporated into our culture. think of the alternative? What if rock cutting edge artist of today is e.g. the Rolling Stone. the like the Stones, but I don't think they are pusing the standard like they once had. Just my two cents.
Chomo
Anything that is new in the music industry is by definition cutting edge. Since average person doesn't have a measuring stick of how well composed the music is, how musical it is, what is music theory, etc... In those terms i just described, almost all of today's music is paltry compared to the classical era. As well, we subjectively depict what we think is good, or more appriopriately, what we like by the process of whether we like it or not. But this fails miserably when evaluating things formally. An objective evaluation would be based on prior knowledge of music, for example, someone who has been trained fully in music schools. This is a segment of the market where capitalism fails. There is no need for producing higher entertainment and well thought out, logical forms when despite how ridiculously simple and watered (dumbed)-down your material is, there is always some audience out there who was never educated in those faculties and will pay 20 dollars for something when they get 6.5 dollars an hour for their labour. Quite quickly, a lot of these new arts (highly unregulated and judged subjectively) fall to the lowest common denominators such as using beats to subsitute creativity, and using raging vocals to stimulate audience instead of well composed music, anyone can scream, but when you put that on a cd and charge an arm and a leg for it, it just isn't art. There is no such thing as commercial art, art originated as an expression form, a desire to create, to communicate and satisfy human's higher consciousness. These qualities can not, and will fundamentally never be able to become commercialized. Money is abstract, to prioritize money in a capitalistic system is central to the progress of the society, which by definition puts all other human qualities second, or even third to profit. It's only a progression that gets worse before it can be fixed or changed, that's why, relatively speaking, there was more good music in the 80's than there is now, and a lot more good music in the classical era than there is now. Putting your faith in time to clear away all things you disagree with including this one only makes you powerless against whatever confronts you now. In due time, we are all dead.
