@SOL: many teen girls listen to this or that, but it's always been that way. And why care about teenagers? You don't have a teenage daughter do you?! :biggrin:
I'm not offended by the way. I can enjoy many different genres so I can easily understand it can mean something for people. Just because I don't like artist X doesn't mean said artist is bad, only that I don't like him/her! If a song makes you happy or sad it does so for a reason.. it allows for self reflection. All genres can do that to people. Maybe not for you but it may for someone else. @Gem: You respond to my post but most of it was not even directed at you. I quoted you separately. You happened to post just before me which I didn't know so I responded to SOL immediately without quoting his comment. And sure the song by G&R will be known for longer and remembered more, but you can't change the fact that some people will really like the makeover. As for Blah Blah (link maybe?) and other terrible songs.. sure, I won't defend poor music by itself, but nor can you claim that your music taste is any better than other people's tastes. It's just your taste. Dance songs aren't extraordinary works of art, I agree, but they still have their place.. and in a certain context they can be great. This is all about subjectivity and context.. This thread is like... ''I like blue more than green.. it's so much more sophisticated, and I'm right about it!'' |
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Not really. There has been dishonest vacuous music throughout rock's history. The industry has always had talentless dolts working to a pop formula producing banal trinkets that people 'like'. It's only a 'like' - just as when I post on facebook, 'I got a new haircut today,' and get 20 odd 'likes'. It doesn't mean anything. Lets try to remember some utter 80's trash. First springs to mind "Da Da Da" by Trio. And what about Achy Breaky Heart? (I guess that one has a little something). How about Ice Ice Baby? What about Milli Vanilli!? |
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The thread is about sublime aesthetics and it's relationship to virtue, truth, honesty, self revelation... beauty. To you it's just 'likes', but I discuss higher principles such as like dedication, respect, love, courage, integrity, appreciation... I think a words search of these pages will show my mention of these. |
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I can't think of any EDM I could present as good music, but I did make post which included a 2018 Black Eyed Peas song which I complimented and adulated (even though I don't like the genre) so as to demonstrate the difference between a good song which can be appreciated and an inanity as Blah Blah Blah. |
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As for the Blah Blah, was it really the song Astro posted? |
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I mentioned Blah Blah Blah (wrote out all 10 words of the lyrics) in the OP, Then was it Astro who provided a link in the second post? You would never listen to Blah Blah Blah for a yoga track because you know it's atrocious and yoga is deep. Even people who 'like' it know it's mindless nonsense. However, because it's dominant on the airwaves, in gyms and so on, as part of media fakery promoting junk trinkets for sale, we are brainwashed into thinking that it is acceptable, and furthermore, popular - we should like it. But really, no one does, so they don't really listen to it at all - not like people listen to Sheeran. Our social standards are such that the lack of integrity doesn't matter because the general population want to get 'likes' for our fakery social facebook/IG lives in exactly the same way: by being trivial, shallow, deceptive, when we know the truth ain't gunna fly. The irony is, it's actually made important because every employer, every girl I express interest and so on, will check out all my social media nonsense and 'rate' me accordingly... 'like'? It's all a facade, you know, but people live as if it's authentic - though they know full well it isn't. That is what 'Blah Blah Blah' represents as the culture producing art. It poses as a protest song, but is really shallow conformity. |
I agree it’s a really bad song.. but I don’t think anyone would claim that it’s a form of high culture. Now I wouldn’t even like that in the gym (heard it a few times) but yeah.. other people, other tastes.. best enjoy your taste and stop caring how other people miss out and like **** music..
I don’t think your gym is going to change that, they go with what’s popular and what gives people energy in a physical setting. Maybe if you ask them kindly or start a petition.. maybe it helps..:smile: |
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As I’ve already said, the lyrics in dance music most often provide nothing more that a bit of relief; something to relate to, or something to uplift you & to help get you dancing. Technically they are often not as elaborate as a nursery rhyme. I found the dance music that was out there in the 90’s & early 00’s to be very enjoyable & uplifting. I would not call the lyrics infantile at all, they were often very much for the minds of (young) adults. I wonder with Blah Blah Blah if it is intended to appeal to older children & younger teens to encourage them to take an interest in dance music. I have similar thoughts about that ‘Sweet Child’ cover, which I don’t see as being degenerate at all, it’s just made to a different genre of music, & I don’t find that to be important. Sometimes it's clear that a piece of music or a song is just not for me. It also seems unfair to compare dance lyrics with the song writing of other genres. Dance doesn’t have a great deal to say because it’s about dancing. Rap, rock, & other genre’s are as much about the songs as they are about the music, if not more so. |
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Actually I prefer music with no lyrics at all! The most beautiful music for me are sounds for meditation, classical, and many video game tracks. All of them can get my mind elsewhere whereas lyrics keep us more in this world! |
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