Pop Culture- Who cares?Oct 04 '00 Write an essay on this topic.I'm always amused by people who discuss music and pop culture, especially those who take it so seriously, and try to foist some sort of social commentary on us by subjecting us to their self-important tripe. Oooh! He used "the MF word"! Four times! I guess he's EDGY! Look at the big picture. We've gone from Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart spending months writing symphonies for orchestras made up of scores of university-trained musicians playing hand-made instruments, to three or four ignoramuses barking out rhyming obscenities while pushing a phonograph record back and forth.What once was called plagiarism is now called "sampling". Maybe Billy C is right, and rock is actually out of ideas.When Princess Diana tragically passed away, Elton John, someone who's had a track record of talented efforts couldn't even come up with a new song as a tribute! He had to retread "Candle In The Wind"? Come on, Elton...TRY A LITTLE HARDER! Anyone who draws any real meaning from pop culture really needs to try harder at educating themselves. It's become nothing more than our civilization's lowest common denominator. We don't need to learn any lessons from it anymore, because we've outgrown it as a society.What once was a reflection of us is now that embarrassing uncle sitting in a dark corner, leering at us and playing with himself. Yes, he's in our family, but he's definitely not representative of the vast majority of us. Generation after generation,the bar has steadily been lowered with regard to what passes as art, with music leading the charge downward. Lipsynchers and pretty-faced dancers now rule the day. The medium has become diluted and creatively bankrupt,and as a result,irrelevant.  |
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