Although, in fairness, it's very, very rarely been music I'd sit at home and listen to. Great for dancing - as long as it's mixed in with a few other genres too. I find too much of any genre pretty dull in clubs. Unless I'm very very drunk.
I also sometimes get the sense that hip-hop tends to veer between extremes of the downright daft and the po-facedly serious. My general, and OK somewhat limiting, musical philosophy tends to lean towards the sort of music which can balance somewhere in the middle - a touch of lightness or a sly wink in the middle of something otherwise serious, or an essentially fun song that reveals a bit of depth/emotion at some point. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places. Dizzee Rascal (especially on the first album) can do it. The Streets used to do it very well, but that's veering somewhat off-topic. MIA? Definitely. Kelis at times. Big US male artists though... hmm... tell me otherwise?
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Date: 2007-11-28 05:34 pm (UTC)I also sometimes get the sense that hip-hop tends to veer between extremes of the downright daft and the po-facedly serious. My general, and OK somewhat limiting, musical philosophy tends to lean towards the sort of music which can balance somewhere in the middle - a touch of lightness or a sly wink in the middle of something otherwise serious, or an essentially fun song that reveals a bit of depth/emotion at some point. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places. Dizzee Rascal (especially on the first album) can do it. The Streets used to do it very well, but that's veering somewhat off-topic. MIA? Definitely. Kelis at times. Big US male artists though... hmm... tell me otherwise?