quoted 1 line What do other IDM'ers think of singing on electronic music?>> What do other IDM'ers think of singing on electronic music?
I say, why not? The trouble with pop-rock-blues music is it is essentially
intended as poetry... the music is merely an excuse for someone to sing
some lyrics they wrote that they think are neat for a few minutes, and the
masses generally accept the music based upon the lyrical, rather than the
musical quality. I prefer instrumental music in general, because pop music,
with its emphasis on the lyrical and its slew of lazy, poorly trained and
untalented/unimaginative musicians, tends to produce the same backing
tracks with the same few chords and drum rolls over and over again using
the same dull instrumentation, whereas instrumentalists are forced, by the
fact that their music will be taken not for the value of its lyrical
content but as music in and of itself, to add richness, complexity, and
subtleties to their work. This is, of course, still not neccessarily true;
in house music, for example, which is mostly instrumental, many artists
produce dull, repetitive, dance oriented tracks, which may have lyrics in
them but are designed to move the body and not neccessarily the mind.
However, IDM as a genre is genreally comprised of artists who spend some
measure of time and effort on their tracks, and generally produce complex
and interesting music. Putting vocals over the top, not just
sampled/repeated stuff and/or wailing, coudn't neccessarily hurt, in fact,
it might lead to the creation of a new kind of pop music (which does
already exist, but is decidedly rare), one that would contain lyrical as
well as musical invetiveness and perhaps sensitize our misguided youth to
the value of good musical content in their music. The trouble with most of
my pop-rock loving friends is that they are unable to understand the point
of having music without words, that sometimes, music is just for listening.
I feel they are missing alot.