quoted 11 lines It's not about "hype". Who gives a fuck about hype. I don't care if Ki
>It's not about "hype". Who gives a fuck about hype. I don't care if Kid 606
>gets thrown on the cover of 'Time' bloody magazine. Who cares. My point was
>that he is making some interesting stuff, and if some of his tracks are duds
>then that is quite to be expected from somebody willing to go out on a limb
>with his music. If you or anybody else thinks he sucks, then just don't listen
>to him. It's that simple. The curious or clueless are none of my concern
>either. If they listen to music because of hype then that is their own sorry
>affair isn't it. Fuck the media, the clueless, the hysterical whiners, and let
>the music 'speak' for itself. I for one trust only my ears, never a single
>review positive or negative. They are really quite useless, like the Koran
>translated into Swedish - you never really 'hear' it.
Ah, nihilism.
The thread is about the qualities that Kid606 exhibits, "why" he's good,
rather than "whether" or not he's good. If you're willing to put the best
of his work up against Hemingway and Picasso as having similar benefits to
those who put up with his lamer tracks, then why not go into a little bit
of detail about that, since that's what the original poster is asking for?
You might as well say that like someone suffering from Alzheimer's, they
have their good days and their bad days.
Music never "speaks for itself," it speaks to you and your sense of
"good." It's an expression of a person using things like "sounds" and
"timing" and "pitch" - among other things - to create an object for
contemplation, for deciding if you'd like to spend more time with it. The
original poster is only asking why people decide to spend time with
Kid606's expressions, as well as spend more money on them. It's quite
unrealistic to say that a piece of music (or a person's entire pantheon of
expression) says the exact same thing to everyone who is exposed to them,
much like how people see different things in Picasso's abstractions and
Hemingway's stories. I feel a cold chill when I think of not having any
reason to consider how others interpret something, especially when it's
something that I truly adore.
The only people bringing up any reference to whether he "sucks" or not are
those who aren't offering anything to the thread. These might also be
those who are most strongly beholden to "hype," since their opinions have
no backup outside of themselves.
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