At 10:26 PM 9/11/00 -0400, cutup wrote:
quoted 11 lines Its funny to have the perspective where you want to say>Its funny to have the perspective where you want to say
>"...but that's not 'techno'..." but people won't have any clue of what
>you're talking about.
>Most people don't have the interest or patience unless it just happens to
>strike them.
>Then there's also the theory of people gradually starting to like stuff
>after they're exposed to it alot
>and frequently... I've seen it happen, but there's a great deal of mental
>resistance to anything "techno"
>(which could be a madonna dance track or noisecreator or anything in
>between)
i think a lot of it has to do with familiarity. if you present someone
with something that's pretty standard, they'll listen to it, compare it to
what else they've heard and liked, and formulate an opinion. most techno
is either a) really boring and repetitive, or b) really different from
"pop" or "rock". really boring repetitive "pop" or "rock" songs tend to
die fast (although some catchy ones defy this...), and it usually takes a
while for anything "different" to cause a paradigm shift.
what a lot of people who dig "idm" forget is that before they really got
into it, they liked a lot of pretty mainstream music (this is often the
case, but not always. it's too new a "movement" for it to raise kids on
(by raise i mean older than 18 :b).
like all paradigm shifts, it might seem like a "well duh" thing to those in
it, but to those on the outside it's still a very foreign thing.
give it time, and enjoy your head start ;)
besides, there are still people now who don't listen to anything released
after 1979 (barring reunion albums heh heh heh)
cheers,
\derek
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