Thursday 26 April 2012

Do you want to see a hypocrite?

Well then feast your eyes on this:

 

This one made my blood boil. Electronic musicians get a lot of stick, but this guy really does it. And the worst thing is, he's fundementally wrong in 3 ways: 

1) Most rock music is based on the same, fundementally easy chord progression (CCCC FFCC GFCC) with a very simple structure (verse, chorus) and alot of repition. The tune and lyrics are simple: this makes it easy to remember. You can draw alot parallels with this and house/dubstep (same deal: simplicity is the key). Also when rock music came into the world, alot of the older generation hated it, thought the instruments weren't instruments (electric guitar) and the songs weren't songs, they were just really fast shouting. It's the same deal, he just grew up with one, and saw the other with detatched eyes because he didn't experience it first hand.

2) HE HATED THE PEOPLE LIKE HIM IN HIS DAY, but now expects us to listen to his rants without judging him like an idiot. When he was young parents probably joked about his taste in music, just because he listen to some slightly different stuff. And know he's doing it to us. Thanks mate.

3) All music of the day is just drivel. Very few pieces are saved by the human race past a hundred years, and that was because the people who wrote them were musical geniuses. The rest of us are just OK. His music is OK, our music is OK (I love how I'm talking; I say our because I think someone might actually read this). It's just what you experience.

So yeah, you're wrong, Harry Rollins.


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