| | I've been back home for a couple of days now, and all I've done are watching TV and playing a lot of music; I jump from the piano to the guitar to the cello, and I don't get bored!
But I think I might be born in the wrong era, because I don't fit into today's hot music scene!
Today's hot music is hip-hop and rapping and a lot of upbeat tunes.
Bricker59 is fifty and rap does not qualify as music to him; well, I'm nineteen and rap is not music to me too! Hip-hop, which usually contains a lot of rapping, has never been my thing. I just don't understand it. There is no tune, a lot of words, and the accompanying music is always 'special' or 'different'--or just plain weird!
Normally, I wouldn't do this, as in talking about things that I dislike or towards which I have negative feelings, because this would only give those things more attention, more publicity and more power, which are exactly the things I don't want them to get; but now, suddenly, I want to say something.
I haven't heard the song then, but now that I've heard it on the radio, wherethefishlives is right: the song 'Boom Boom Pow' is incredibly... humiliating. No, seriously, the song is very embarrassing. It makes me feel ashamed to be a part of today's culture.
Oh c'mon, whoever says 'Boom Boom Pow' anyway? I don't even know what it means, aside from being verbal sound effects of punches and kicks in comic books and cartoons. And what's with the 'Boom Boom Boom' mimicking the bass line? Are they trying to tell people that the song actually has a bass line? Oh wow, the attempt is so brilliant. They might as well just do away with the bass altogether and sing 'Boom Boom Boom' throughout the song; that would be such a smart thing to do to further hype up the song.
Seriously, I don't get that kind of music at all. It doesn't even make me feel like dancing because I'll be too busy feeling abashed to even move my body to its beat.
Maybe hip-hop is not for everyone. Because, really, I don't think any hip-hop songs are songs at all; they are either just coordinated talking with a tempo made with unnatural electronic 'instruments', or digitalised sounds. That's not music. Music is what is expanded, diversified and improved from Bach, Beethoven and the Beatles; and digitalised sounds are not part of it.
People say Kanye West is an awesome musician and all--I respect that--but I just don't feel his music. Okay, maybe there is a tune somewhere in the song Heartless, but the rest is just all planned talking with a tempo, electric sounds, and his voice digitally mutilated. I can't listen to that and say, 'Hey, that's awesome,' because it's not!
But thank goodness, there are still people like Sara Bareilles and Jason Mraz, singing and playing on the piano, guitar, etc., and making what I call music. And thank goodness there are shows like American Idol, digging out people like Kris Allen to convert non-music into music. For instance, very obviously, the fantastically rearranged Heartless. When Kris sang it, I was blown away. He changed Kanye's non-song Heartless into an actual song.
Hmm, maybe I'm not born into the wrong era after all; there are just some things in this era that's not up to my taste. I shall just listen to my music, and continue playing the piano, guitar and cello; maybe someday I'll have the ability to change the world!
Or rather, just to convert what I don't like into what I do like. Keeping playing the Mozart...
P.S.: My team got third place in the theatre festival that we joined recently. That's fine by me; first time and I already got top three. But maybe not so fine for the final year people, because it's their last chance at getting champion. But I don't like what we got now because one very boring drama by another team actually got second place. Talk about being biased.
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| | Posted 6/10/2009 3:20 AM - 258 Views - 8 eProps - 9 comments
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