Pop Music cannot be fully debated and defended since it's roots are in money and the blooming media. It's based in luxuries not necessities.
not only, but also, I suppose. today, pop is a bit more than that. if you tune your radio randomly and your a song you've never heard, you can say if it's pop music, even if you don't know by who and why it was made. it's a bit more about forms rather than intentions. but I repeat : not only money and blooming media, but also that.
true...but then again, this could apply to any art form. i'm sure i don't need to point out that "art" as we know it today is largely a question of having your work stamped with approval from the correct source, of getting your work to a gallery... (puts on his reactionary hat) when someone can exhibit an unmade bed and be one of the frontrunners for the turner prize (yes, yes, i know that anything can be art but once you've had duchamp exhibiting a urinal and manzoni canning and selling his own shit that point has pretty much been made) and countless other people die in obscurity that shows how that game is one of luck, and being discovered.
and unmade bed it's NOT art and can NEVER be art, even if there's a whole art gallery or museum, full of so-called artists or art critics waving their hands in ecstasy, praising the slob for its genious. roten culture, where art depends on whom you sleep with.
the same can apply to any other form of art you choose to focus on. yes, there's plenty of it about, and those that are successful are frequently those that least deserve to be, but art is always going to be based in luxuries, not necessities... and its always going to be defined to some extent by pennies.. does this make all art undiscussable?
no. I'm sorry, I have to ask. what is that PE you talk so much about ? and jello's great and funny and drunk, but I still like him. greetings tiago +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@missprint.org". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@missprint.org". WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+