Writer's Block: The Beatles
Oct. 9th, 2008 01:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Pop music ceased to be relevant to me about fifteen years ago. The problem is that there is no single "pop music" anymore. Even Billboard split their charts due to complaints that one genre of pop was overwhelming all the others.
I think, right now, in some hellhole club in a city nobody's heard of, there is a band who could emerge and challenge the world of music like the Beatles did. Perhaps they're hometown heroes now. Perhaps they're just scraping by, playing other groups' songs at parties. But even the Beatles needed a Brian Epstein for business savvy and a George Martin to recognize and refine their artistic strengths. (Hmm...I don't know exactly where I'm going with this thought.)
Back when I was a teenager and a student and pop music spoke to me, I thought I saw some trends in music coming...but my ideas were completely wrong. Because of rap's reliance on technology and pre-recording, musicianship is being lost as a pop asset. My hope was that there would be a renewal in the appreciation in a band that plays its own instruments live. Perhaps the new computer games will train a generation of pop musicians, but how quickly can the trend bear fruit?
Pop music ceased to be relevant to me about fifteen years ago. The problem is that there is no single "pop music" anymore. Even Billboard split their charts due to complaints that one genre of pop was overwhelming all the others.
I think, right now, in some hellhole club in a city nobody's heard of, there is a band who could emerge and challenge the world of music like the Beatles did. Perhaps they're hometown heroes now. Perhaps they're just scraping by, playing other groups' songs at parties. But even the Beatles needed a Brian Epstein for business savvy and a George Martin to recognize and refine their artistic strengths. (Hmm...I don't know exactly where I'm going with this thought.)
Back when I was a teenager and a student and pop music spoke to me, I thought I saw some trends in music coming...but my ideas were completely wrong. Because of rap's reliance on technology and pre-recording, musicianship is being lost as a pop asset. My hope was that there would be a renewal in the appreciation in a band that plays its own instruments live. Perhaps the new computer games will train a generation of pop musicians, but how quickly can the trend bear fruit?
