A Question About Music
Nov. 5th, 2011 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaI recently acquired the new Florence + The Machine album Ceremonials. It is very good in my opinion.
But tell me friends, how do you know which if the contemporary artists and musicians you like are popular or not?
I don't watch MTV, my trawling through Youtube is sketchy at best and usually directed towards videos of cute cat or various political gatherings and suffice to say that Israel is so stuck in the 90's that the website selling tickets for the K's Choice tour crashed several times when it opened up for locals to buy (yes, I have a ticket, weehee!). Oh, and I don't follow the charts or the Grammy's unless it's research for something I'm writing that's set in a certain time frame (which means I'm more likely going to be looking at charts from the 60's or the 70's).
We are slightly dated, also the radio is an unreliable source of knowing which acts are popular or not in my opinion.
I'll be the first to admit that my taste in music is terribly banal and ordinary. I have a few bootlegs (that I digitised) of underground queer core songs, but I don't listen to those on a regular basis and I bought the bootlegs in order to support an anarchist collective as opposed to actually liking the music, so, yeah...
It's just that, I read this article about Florence + The Machine and the middle class apathy and I really couldn't figure out what this guy was talking about?
Am I utterly mixed in my genres? Since when is a remixed to death and multi voice track recording considered folk?
I'll admit that I'm slightly dated in my definitions (seeing as I'm an avid Joni Mitchell listener, as well as Joan Baez and Tracy Chapman), but um, am I missing something?
I mean, isn't Florence + The Machine more like Lady Gaga than, say, Suzanne Vega?
But tell me friends, how do you know which if the contemporary artists and musicians you like are popular or not?
I don't watch MTV, my trawling through Youtube is sketchy at best and usually directed towards videos of cute cat or various political gatherings and suffice to say that Israel is so stuck in the 90's that the website selling tickets for the K's Choice tour crashed several times when it opened up for locals to buy (yes, I have a ticket, weehee!). Oh, and I don't follow the charts or the Grammy's unless it's research for something I'm writing that's set in a certain time frame (which means I'm more likely going to be looking at charts from the 60's or the 70's).
We are slightly dated, also the radio is an unreliable source of knowing which acts are popular or not in my opinion.
I'll be the first to admit that my taste in music is terribly banal and ordinary. I have a few bootlegs (that I digitised) of underground queer core songs, but I don't listen to those on a regular basis and I bought the bootlegs in order to support an anarchist collective as opposed to actually liking the music, so, yeah...
It's just that, I read this article about Florence + The Machine and the middle class apathy and I really couldn't figure out what this guy was talking about?
Am I utterly mixed in my genres? Since when is a remixed to death and multi voice track recording considered folk?
I'll admit that I'm slightly dated in my definitions (seeing as I'm an avid Joni Mitchell listener, as well as Joan Baez and Tracy Chapman), but um, am I missing something?
I mean, isn't Florence + The Machine more like Lady Gaga than, say, Suzanne Vega?
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Date: 2011-11-05 06:51 pm (UTC)I love Lady Gaga musically and conceptually and it could be that the author is talking about the concept much more than the actual music.