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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This has massive potential to be the very worst thing ever recorded. SAVE US.

In happier news, the radio did a mindmeld this morning when I was in the optician's: for the past couple of days I've had a craving to hear, of all things, 'Stuck' by Stacie Orrico, and what did I hear while awaiting my contact lenses but JUST THAT! I especially love the counterpoint backing vocals right at the end - "don't! know! what! to! do!" Talk about what you love about it.

And throw in love for Lumidee's 'Never Leave You' while you're at it, that's what the radio played afterwards and I started involuntarily bobbing to the beat and the optician looked at me very oddly.

LJ CHECK MY HOMEWORK PLZ!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

[backstory: a student emailed askin me the followin...]
a: Have Luhrm4nn and T4r4ntino changed the way that music is used in film?
b: Have they used music successfully?
c: Do you think their choice of music was an artistic choice or a cynical ploy to sell records?

ok this is the list of questions i am planning to send back -- i don't think they ALL need to be answered for a good essay (what do YOU THINK?):

How IS music used in film?
Does it just do one thing?
If more than one, can you you list and describe all the ways?
What would a thumbnail history of the role(s) of music in film be?
What would a thumbnail history of the role(s) of POP in film be?
When does pop begin within music?
Why have you picked this start-date?
Aren't QT&BL simply doing an old thing in a new way?
If someone insisted they were secret traditionalists, how would you counter them?

What is "unsuccessful" use of music in film?
What is the relationship between success and novelty?
Are successful things ever really "new" things?
Is there more than one kind of success?
Can a director be doing something interesting and useful that ISN'T what they say or think they're doing?
What's more important: intention or serendipity?

What are the destructive effects of a record selling a lot?
Can artistry and cynicism never overlap?
Are expression and technique always in perfect sync?
Does a film always have a single "author"?
Does a song always have a single "author"?
Can the viewer's success ever be the artist's failure?
Can a film change the way you hear a song?
Is this good or bad?
Can a song change the way you see a film?
Is THIS good or bad?
Which needs more input from the audience to be comprehensible: film or song?
Why?
Which needs more input from the audience to be good or bad: film or song?
Why?

Which of these questions was most useful to you?
Which of these questions was least useful?
How would your enemies explain your choice there?
Would it make a difference if they were right?

Italian pop discovery of the day

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Alexia! Her website plays the same snatch of song on repeat but said song is ACE! Does anyone have any other stuff by her? She's been going quite a while but I've never heard any of it. Is it worth investigating?