DjPolair
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I stumbled on this video and while I do not care too much for art I found this to be a perfect analogy for music, and more specifically hip-hop.
He argues that standards have gradually gone down (as I've been saying for years) and all that is left now is personal expression.
Quality in music "is not merely a matter of personal opinion but to a high degree . . . objectively traceable." Which is a fact. Rhythm, melody, all follow certain rules. If everything is out of balance it doesn't sound good to our ears, you can listen to it 500 times and get used to tolerating it, doesn't make it good music.
The notion of universal standard of quality is met with firm resistance and it does a huge disservice to music.
Yeezus is the perfect expression of everything that is wrong with modern hip-hop and music. And To Pimp A Butterfly follows in that lane. It is dissolving from one thing into another and all over the place.
Mainstream hip-hop artists need to follow standards of excellence and put their heart and soul into their records because hip-hop can be so great. We hip-hop heads know how great hip-hop can be. That's why we love it. And we need to get back to that.
He argues that standards have gradually gone down (as I've been saying for years) and all that is left now is personal expression.
Quality in music "is not merely a matter of personal opinion but to a high degree . . . objectively traceable." Which is a fact. Rhythm, melody, all follow certain rules. If everything is out of balance it doesn't sound good to our ears, you can listen to it 500 times and get used to tolerating it, doesn't make it good music.
The notion of universal standard of quality is met with firm resistance and it does a huge disservice to music.
Yeezus is the perfect expression of everything that is wrong with modern hip-hop and music. And To Pimp A Butterfly follows in that lane. It is dissolving from one thing into another and all over the place.
Mainstream hip-hop artists need to follow standards of excellence and put their heart and soul into their records because hip-hop can be so great. We hip-hop heads know how great hip-hop can be. That's why we love it. And we need to get back to that.
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