Madilyn M.

existing in theory only. enjoying life otherwise. account for music 2011.

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@hanlauralex @BrittHanlon6 Exactly! Live performances create a sense of community at times (source: went to a dodie concert in 2019, cried with strangers) that studio records can't quite achieve.

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@NicksMusic2011 This is a good point, and I think it creates this element of surprise in live performances as well because people don't know what to expect when it comes to auto tune being dropped in live events.

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#S22POPMUS I disagree with Wald. Many young people would kill to have tickets to see their favourite artists live. Things like auto tune have changed things, but I think it's because if auto tune isn't used live but is used in studio, it makes live performances more interesting

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@sarahbutler913 Of course, but my original point was a little more satirical. I was trying to say that they somehow simplified an incredibly complex genre with generations of musical foundation and made it empty and soulless. Is it music? Yeah, and the musicians deserve credit

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#S22POPMUS I think "schlock rock" is cultural theft in that it attempts to remove all of what is culturally meaningful and tries to sanitize it. We should still acknowledge the skill that went into simplifying an incredibly complex genre of music, and dumbing it down to teen pop

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@Kayleigh8894 I agree, as long as we acknowledge what schlock rock did wrong and the intention behind it (sanitizing a "threatening" genre), we can still consider it a part, albeit a bad part, of musical history.

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@Mat12Shauna I also think that white teenagers with no experience or connection to the environment rock was created in cannot understand the genre. It isn't just the emotion, it's the deeply intricate sociocultural circumstances that span over generations that created it.

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@mr_mmercer @svernb This is a good point! We also have to consider the time in which he was singing in though. In that era, it wasn't uncommon for women to be staying at home, but I think the narrator in the song loves her to the point of appreciating EVERYTHING about her. It's still unfair to her.

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@ShouryankC I agree, I think when he's singing so highly of the woman in the song, it makes the most sense musically to employ vocal techniques, beyond lyrics, to express just how much he feels for her.

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#S22POPMUS I think it's for two reasons. One is to express the overwhelming emotion in which he feels for the subject of the song. I also think it's to add some colour to his music, making it interesting to listen to; it's like vocal texture.

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@kona_miura It sort of allows us to choose the world we escape to, I completely agree! It's interesting to think about. People very delicately compile music to create an environment they want to exist within, separate from the rest of the world and from themselves in a sense.

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@BrittHanlon6 I said something similar! We often times shape our identity around what music we're listening to. When I listen to cottagecore music for example, I try to mimic the aesthetic or the attitude. It reflects who we are AND who we want to be.

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#S22POPMUS I find that audio streaming allows people to curate their self-identity themselves. Playlists that individuals make for specific circumstances (writing, studying, getting ready, etc) can often influence how they act at a given moment, or how they perceive themselves.

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@jennifer_organ Absolutely; I think that while false needs are interesting to think of the in the context of music, music is often used as a form of self-expression when it comes to sociopolitical issues; music is inherently political by nature, I think.

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@JacobRodden I completely agree, the things music talks about now would be unheard of 60 years ago. Music does not create culture, it is an aspect of it that follows.

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@tw7218 Exactly! I loved some really inappropriate songs when I was younger. Blurred Lines? I'd always sing along to that whenever it came on. Music molds itself around culture, not the other way around.

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I don't agree that popular music has dumbed down culture. I think it formed itself AROUND culture; we live with complex ideas that need to be simplified for some people, so pop music caters to those who need things simplified. People like things that they understand #S22POPMUS