At 06:47 PM 9/25/2000 -0400, you wrote:
quoted 3 lines I guess i dont understand quite how pop music is defined, but as for where i
>I guess i dont understand quite how pop music is defined, but as for where i
>live and in my situation (high school in southern california) idm is non
>existant.
I think part of the thing about pop music is that some people
consider it to be any music that is popular, and some people think of it as
music with populist aims. I generally think of it as being the second,
because a lot of stuff becomes popular pretty randomly. And there's nothing
necessarily wrong with making music that's easy to get into, but the
problem is that "pop music," for us Americans at least, tends to mean more
stupid verse chorus music by guys with guitars who are doing some variant
of the beatles/beach boys/sabbath/etc. I'd argue that musicians like Boards
of Canada or Lexaunculpt make very approachable music that's pretty much
the definition of pop. There's a level of it that is catchy, melodic, and
very easy for the non-trainspotter-obsessive-idm-fanboy-like-us listener to
get into.
quoted 2 lines Popular music in my area seems to be all about image, not really the
> Popular music in my area seems to be all about image, not really the
>music itself. Does idm, or any idm musicians, have an image?
There's certainly public stances that a lot of IDM artists take.
Typically this is something like "people who make rave dance music are
morons but we're taking their ideas and making them so much niftier via
irony." I think that qualifies as an image. But compared to someone like
Britney Spears, no, there's not much image in IDM. You don't need shiny
hair or a nice chest to be revered as an IDM superstar.
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