by Tdarcos » Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:04 pm
Flack wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:05 am
Everything I say about being out of touch with modern music sounds cliche. My parents didn't get Metallica, and I don't get my kids' music. Beating that dead horse any further reeks of Seinfeld material.
Funny thing is, I spoke about this very subject
eleven years ago here:
in which I directed a response to a then 11-year-old girl who commented on one of my videos, and what I predicted about her future:
And your parents. By the time you turn 15 or 16 you're really going to hate them... You'll find the music that they listen to, to be tasteless and boring. And they'll find the music you listen to, to be incomprehensible and vulgar... Then perhaps, someday in the future... you'll have kids... then you'll discover... that they listen to strange music that you don't understand, and it's nothing like the good music that you listened to when you were their age.
Flack wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:05 am
Billie Eilish - Bad Guy (YouTube Link)
It was okay, I'd give it a C. Or to paraphrase a line from
American Bandstand, "I'd give it a 43 but I wouldn't dance to it."
Some music I did not like. Some I didn't like but grew to like it later. Some I liked, and some blew me away like a hurricane, or perhaps, spun me around like a tornado.
One I liked from when I first heard it was Rachel Platten's
Fight song:
"My power's turned on
Starting right now I'll be strong
I'll play my fight song
And I don't really care if nobody else believes
'Cause I've still got, a lot of fight left in me."
If that doesn't move you, you've got the sensitivity of an armadillo.
And one that blew me away from the first time I heard it was the opening "trill" from F,leetwood Mac's
Everywhere:
"Can you hear me calling, out your name? You know that I'm falling and I don't know what to say."
Flack wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:05 am
In case you missed it, all the music and vocals were created and recorded in the bedrooms inside their parents' house. The music industry has been selling that dream for a long time, but it's finally happened. Some teenage girl and her older brother recorded the album, record, and song of the year in their bedroom. If they weren't already, professional recording studios should be scrambling.
A lot of industries are discovering - sometimes fatally - that the advancement of technology changes their operations in ways they may not even be able to imagine. The effects of technology have the exact opposite effect of a vicious circle, causing the rarely used term: a
virtuous circle.
As technology becomes cheaper, it allows other things using that technology to become cheaper as well, which allows other things that previously were unaffordable to come down in price, and so on, and so on, and so on. Improvements feed on each other, increasing the functionality of existing technology and the reach of better technology to more people.
We've gotten to the point that previously unaffordable audio-visual technology has come down so far in price that an ordinary middle class individual an afford to do video - and audio - productions that come close to or equal to the production values of professionals.
Right now, a person with a refurbished general purpose computer costing $300 (or less), a microphone costing $50 and a $10 microphone stand, plus a copy of the world class open-source sound editing program Audacity can produce digital audio files that sound as good at those that would have required $50,000 or $100,000 (or more) worth of equipment to do only a few yeas ago.
[quote=Flack post_id=105884 time=1580223914 user_id=840]
Everything I say about being out of touch with modern music sounds cliche. My parents didn't get Metallica, and I don't get my kids' music. Beating that dead horse any further reeks of Seinfeld material.[/quote]
Funny thing is, I spoke about this very subject [i]eleven years ago[/i] here: https://youtu.be/hPZrEloNF-8 in which I directed a response to a then 11-year-old girl who commented on one of my videos, and what I predicted about her future:
[size=85]And your parents. By the time you turn 15 or 16 you're really going to hate them... You'll find the music that they listen to, to be tasteless and boring. And they'll find the music you listen to, to be incomprehensible and vulgar... Then perhaps, someday in the future... you'll have kids... then you'll discover... that they listen to strange music that you don't understand, and it's nothing like the good music that you listened to when you were their age.[/size]
[quote=Flack post_id=105884 time=1580223914 user_id=840]
Billie Eilish - Bad Guy (YouTube Link)[/quote]
It was okay, I'd give it a C. Or to paraphrase a line from [i]American Bandstand[/i], "I'd give it a 43 but I wouldn't dance to it."
Some music I did not like. Some I didn't like but grew to like it later. Some I liked, and some blew me away like a hurricane, or perhaps, spun me around like a tornado.
One I liked from when I first heard it was Rachel Platten's [i]Fight song[/i]: https://youtu.be/xo1VInw-SKc
"My power's turned on
Starting right now I'll be strong
I'll play my fight song
And I don't really care if nobody else believes
'Cause I've still got, a lot of fight left in me."
If that doesn't move you, you've got the sensitivity of an armadillo.
And one that blew me away from the first time I heard it was the opening "trill" from F,leetwood Mac's [i]Everywhere[/i]: https://youtu.be/YF1R0hc5Q2I
"Can you hear me calling, out your name? You know that I'm falling and I don't know what to say."
[quote=Flack post_id=105884 time=1580223914 user_id=840]
In case you missed it, all the music and vocals were created and recorded in the bedrooms inside their parents' house. The music industry has been selling that dream for a long time, but it's finally happened. Some teenage girl and her older brother recorded the album, record, and song of the year in their bedroom. If they weren't already, professional recording studios should be scrambling.[/quote]
A lot of industries are discovering - sometimes fatally - that the advancement of technology changes their operations in ways they may not even be able to imagine. The effects of technology have the exact opposite effect of a vicious circle, causing the rarely used term: a [i]virtuous[/i] circle.
As technology becomes cheaper, it allows other things using that technology to become cheaper as well, which allows other things that previously were unaffordable to come down in price, and so on, and so on, and so on. Improvements feed on each other, increasing the functionality of existing technology and the reach of better technology to more people.
We've gotten to the point that previously unaffordable audio-visual technology has come down so far in price that an ordinary middle class individual an afford to do video - and audio - productions that come close to or equal to the production values of professionals.
Right now, a person with a refurbished general purpose computer costing $300 (or less), a microphone costing $50 and a $10 microphone stand, plus a copy of the world class open-source sound editing program Audacity can produce digital audio files that sound as good at those that would have required $50,000 or $100,000 (or more) worth of equipment to do only a few yeas ago.