Slymodi wrote:You may like Beethoven for some rationalization and you may not like rap music for some other rationalization but that doesn't mean that the 'quality' of music isn't going down. Take for example
Death Grips(I expect none of you to like this), what MC Ride says speaks WAY more about humanity than fur elise ever could.
Either we have very different definitions of what "music" is, or we'll have to disagree about its relative quality.
I listened to a couple of minutes of "Death Grips" -- long enough to catch the reuse of Pink Floyd and exactly the kind of continuous "I," "me," "my" narcissism that pervades virtually all rap and pop. I don't believe we're going to be able to agree that this is a more genuine expression of the human experience than "Für Elise".
Is it art? Sure. Does being loud and nasty somehow make it more authentic, more human, than something that's more "pure" music? I don't think I can agree to that.
Please understand what I'm trying to say here, which is not that commercial or protest stuff is "not music." I'm not saying that. I'm saying that I believe music has become "less musical" -- that there's less compositional knowledge and artistry in it. What music has mostly become today is "hey, look at me!" performance art.
That doesn't mean everything written today is junk, or that everything today is less musical than before our post-modern era. There are exceptions... but that's sort of my point. I think such music has become the exception.
I'm not saying this to try to persuade. We -- I, definitely -- are well into the realm of personal taste here, so a lot of this is subjective and not really arguable to any mutually agreeable conclusion. I just thought I'd try to offer an explanation for a comment I probably shouldn't have made.
At any rate, as
threatenedpromised, here are the first two original pieces I've written. I'm not making any claims of Great Musicality for them -- I'm just sharing them because I believe that the privilege of criticism ought to be earned by trying to create.
Violet's Music Box:
https://soundcloud.com/flatfingers/violets-music-box
Discovery Theme:
https://soundcloud.com/flatfingers/discovery-theme