Trends

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Lets talk about TRENDS.

In fact, let's talk about the EXISTENCE of trends - on the Lex's LJ in a recent post dubdobdee said he basically didn't believe in them, or at least found them harmful as a way of thinking about stuff (dunno if he was specifically referring to music or what). Boyofbadgers agreed.

I am interested in this perspective - do you think that thinking about music in terms of trends is useful? Do you think the ebbs and flows of musical fashion as documented by journalists has any relation to real life experience? If anyone else likes it, is it a bonus? (Or a PENALTY?)

Am I being too vague?

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the things that's really gone missing now there's only the NME is the sense of music papers OPPOSING trends - "yes this is happening but it's stupid, stop it now kids" used to be quite a regular stance when I was a teen (and it usually meant that the Melody Maker or Sounds were backing whatever it was). Though I guess emo is an example of the NME not really knowing what stand to take on something clearly big happening.