They're all completely mad about Cascada at my (younger, although only by three years) brother's naval school, which seems quite mad to me. They're all over Scooter etc. too whilst simultaneously all over pop-punk... I'm not sure what to make of that other than possibly short attentions spans or something. It doesn't quite seem compatible with military uniforms but then I suppose that's precisely why they like it.
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I agree about 'experimental' being the wrong word. I feel it is kind of pushing the boundaries of what can be considered music (for a lot of people- as you say this may be simply because the BBC tells them that it isn't) and that's really what interests me. Clearly it's treated as music as opposed to novelty and judging from what I've seen of 'ethusiasts' (albeit this is limited so my brother and his friends) but as you say the method of creation is quite roughshod... I don't know, I suppose what I mean to say is what you're describing with this underground of kids etc. and the music being shared for free, mostly, is that this is a very interesting sort of social movement in a lot of ways. As you say, it's not good taste or conventionally cool (convention again according to the BBC or whoever) but it's... hrmm. I don't really know how to express what I am thinking about here.
Right. It's extremely alien to most people, even to people like me who have basically no one else IRL who shares their music taste and who certainly have doors into it, it seems weird. I think what you say about the defiance is definitely true; the aggression I read in it is, I think, as I said to freakytigger above, the sort of 'either you can understand this or you can't' nature of the thing whereby it creates its own group... so I suppose it isn't pop? Even though it should be on a sort of technical scale. Hrmm.
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Date: 2007-05-06 06:37 pm (UTC)/detour
I agree about 'experimental' being the wrong word. I feel it is kind of pushing the boundaries of what can be considered music (for a lot of people- as you say this may be simply because the BBC tells them that it isn't) and that's really what interests me. Clearly it's treated as music as opposed to novelty and judging from what I've seen of 'ethusiasts' (albeit this is limited so my brother and his friends) but as you say the method of creation is quite roughshod... I don't know, I suppose what I mean to say is what you're describing with this underground of kids etc. and the music being shared for free, mostly, is that this is a very interesting sort of social movement in a lot of ways. As you say, it's not good taste or conventionally cool (convention again according to the BBC or whoever) but it's... hrmm. I don't really know how to express what I am thinking about here.
Right. It's extremely alien to most people, even to people like me who have basically no one else IRL who shares their music taste and who certainly have doors into it, it seems weird. I think what you say about the defiance is definitely true; the aggression I read in it is, I think, as I said to freakytigger above, the sort of 'either you can understand this or you can't' nature of the thing whereby it creates its own group... so I suppose it isn't pop? Even though it should be on a sort of technical scale. Hrmm.