Via maura

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2007/10/22/071022crmu_music_frerejones

- I would imagine there'll be lots of blogtalk about this one. It feels to me like he's fighting old battles, or maybe telling old war stories that aren't quite as tightly relevant to now as they should be. But the point about the shift from imitator to fan seems an interesting one.

Meanwhile there's still a couple of hours to vote in the Pop Open.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What a lot of f4nnydangle! Four pages to say maybe two interesting points? The only sentence to really grab me in the whole of that was the old r0ck1st argument: "musicians retreating inward and settling for the lassitude and monotony that so many indie acts seem to confuse with authenticity and significance." However I think this dude's logic is very flawed if he thinks that the only way indie musicians can progress is to incorporate 'black' musical elements. That seems, if anything, regressive! Surely the next big step is to discover something amazing that can inject new life into all genres (like sampling did for hip-hop) no matter what skin colour of the musican making it. Christ I sound like a big hippy.

[pot80.livejournal.com]

Right.

And what about music made by people who are neither black or white? Do they even count at all?