An article!

[phree_mind]

I ripped this out of a magazine in the airplane! Enjoy! READ IT.

POP MUSIC = BADKelly Clarkson had been an American Idol for three years before I heard an entire song of hers. It was that "Since U Been Gone" song. Clarkson was the musical guest on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live, and nothing else was on TV, so I watched her perform. I'm

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[boatsandbirds]

let the bodies hit the floor

[boatsandbirds]

Kidding! I agreed with everything said.

[phree_mind]

lmao.

there was another one that was pro pop music....
but my journal is way too one sided and chauvinistic for any kind of rational debate like that.
my way or the highway. \m/

[natzmeister]

I don't agree. I think some people just like pop music because it's fun, and because it's fun and easy to sing along to, it reaches a mass audience. I don't think people like it because they're "forced" to listen to it. It sells tons of records for a reason

[phree_mind]

For the most part, you summed up what the counter-article read.

Pop music is feel good music, you're absolutely right, and I don't disagree in the least. It is recorded and marketed to reach a mass audience, and there's nothing wrong with that. If it makes people happy, then they're completely and totally entitled to buy into it. It's the beauty of free will and conscious choice!

Argh, I have to cut this short, because I have to run.... but I agree with much of what you said. Yet, I can understand the frustrated position from which the author of this article is writing. Music as a whole is good. There is something for everyone. Different strokes. I indulge in Kelly Clarkson and Britney Spears myself. No shame.

We'll have a late night convo about it! ;]
And maybe you took this article a bit too seriously. =P

[natzmeister]

Haha, I only took it seriously because it was taking itself too seriously. What a tangled web we weave.

[phree_mind]

What a tangled web indeed, but god damn, are we some sexy spiders.

=]

Mad love.

[____ambyoulance]

J-NO. HAH.
i never stumble across articles like these :(
or maybe it's because pictures are so much more distracting.

[_strike_me_down]

hey! where have you been? really, i'm bored online, i got no one to make "watching tv" jokes with! lol

hope that working for feds isn't too boring

[_strike_me_down]

while pop music does suck for the most part, it's catchy, so one day you might find yourself singing to, um all those clone blonde chicks or pretty boys and think "oh god, what am I DOING!?" Some might consider lighting themselves on fire and jumping out the window, but others like it. Because it's all processed on Pro Tools. Singer outta key, auto tune their voice! Guitar solo? make it overshadow everything else! It's processed to society's likes, basically the pop music producers know how to make someone with "acid reflux" and no talent a famous star in a day. Pop is something that will forever be filled with talentless artists but will always be catchy. Producers must've found a lost gene in humans that makes us like pop music and exploit that

[phree_mind]

Everybody has different opinions, and while I understand and respect yours, I do not agree with them

[natzmeister]

Very much agreed with your point. Different strokes for different folks.

I love pop music, but I also love other kinds of music too. Whether it's "real" or not doesn't matter. What is real, and what is fake? Such standards can't be applied to music. The difference is, however, that I'll never confuse someone like Ashlee Simpson with an artist like Elton John, Prince, or Rufus Wainwright because, quite frankly, she's very manufactured. She needs a tad more creativity to set her apart and make her go down in history. But I enjoy her for what she is - a flavor of the moment, a guilty pleasure, something pretty to look at once in a while (and I use "pretty" very loosely).

[phree_mind]

i think she's cute!