RE: Musical culture is dead.
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A sincere and thought-provoking post, and well-written, thank you!
The post-genre world
My deep interest in musical culture began in the mid-1990s when I was a teenager and ended in the mid-2000s. This happened partly because I got older and music stopped being a key identifier to me, but also because the era of collecting tapes and CDs came to an end — I started listening to everything online. So, I have this feeling that the best time for music ended sometime in the beginning of 2000s. Or maybe "my time in music" is simply in the past. I don't know... @qwerrie what do you think?
The problem of censorship in culture through the algorithms of YouTube and TikTok is real — everything that passes through them is a kind of socially sterile. (Could the rise in societal toxicity be a response to this censorship — a kind of compensation/sublimation?) And this creates a breeding ground for something alternative — existing somewhere in reality or the dark web. Whether this potential will be realized is another question. We’ll see.
I don't think it's compensation so much as lack of exposure making people kind of pathetic. Sheltering everybody from every tiny dangerous word and concept means that any accidental exposure or leakage into public is perceived as horrendously evil and malicious.
I've been telling myself since I was a kid that I someday want to buy all the physical copies of everything I've 'stolen' through digital downloads over the years. Books included. I want a house full of my influences and to know I've paid my dues. It would also be an awesome looking house full of such things.
Still waiting on that day...
haha. sounds funny. I am more than sure you will change your mind while growing up. 🙃
I went through a stage of buying something after I'd robbed it as I could pop to town, buy the whole album, have a coffee and get the bus home faster than it took to download back in the day!
Haha true. Sometimes I'd have to wait months for somebody to p2p share it again. Only to find it's some virus-riddled, crappy live recording of half a song. Frustrating times but fun XD
I'm thinking about what? The author of the post is not quite correct, making categorical statements. But he gives us good observations. Yes, music has become commercial - like all art. (But, of course - not 100%, that would be absurd).
The statement about "control" of the defining musical style of the decade by radio stations and labels - from which we have freed ourselves with the advent of the torrent era - in my opinion is incorrect, since it schematizes and simplifies the situation too much. Real life is, of course, much simpler. But the fact took place - in the 2000s, the entire back catalog burst out at once, instead of consuming and "assimilating" current / relevant / popular musical genres. People really started listening to "everything at once", all the music created over the last 50 years, so to speak - and the inevitable consequence was the hybridization of genres, the crossing of everything with everything, the leveling and leveling of genres - we came to the point that the latest album of such different groups as the Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode and Duran Duran - will sound suspiciously the same. Nonsense, but this is exactly the time we live in.
Do I think that today's music is uninteresting? Yes. I do not reflect on "why", I just look exclusively to the past.
Думаю о чем? автор поста не совсем корректен, делая категоричные утверждения. Но делится с нами хорошими наблюдениями. Да, музыка стала коммерческой - как и все искусство ХХ века. (Но, разумеется - не на 100%, это было бы абсурдно).
Заявление про "контролирование" определяющего музыкального стиля декады, радиостанциями и лейблами - от которого мы освободились с наступлением эпохи торрентов - на мой взгляд некорректно так как слишком схематизирует и упрощает ситуацию. Реальная жизнь устроена конечно намного проще. Но факт имел место - в 2000-е наружу вырвался одномоментно весь бэк-каталог, вместо потребления и "усваивания" текущих / актуальных / популярных музыкальных жанров. Люди действительно стали слушать "сразу всё", всю музыку созданную за условно говоря последние 50 лет - и неизбежным последствием стала гибридизация жанров, скрещивание всего со всем, выравнивание и нивелирование жанров - мы пришли к тому, что последняя пластинка таких разных групп как Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode и Duran Duran - будет звучать подозрительно одинаково. Нонсенс, но именно в таком времени мы и живем.
Думаю ли я что сегодняшняя музыка неинтересна? да. Я не рефлектирую "почему", просто смотрю исключительно в прошлое.