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| quote: | Originally posted by dJohn
Ok first things first...
ASOT100, maybe it's because you don't understand it. Hip Hop is about appeciation of what you have around you, and it's a lifestyle and mentality as well as a musical genre that promotes togetherness,indivduality, and any other positive mantra that you may live by. Please, do your self a good favor and listen to some REAL hip hop...try this for a sampler
Jurassic 5 - Jayou
"...I'm out to win ain't no pretendin, fuck the first amendment//
My speech was free, the day that my soul descended//
Earthbound, we might sound various//
Some niggaz can rhyme, but they got no character//
So we preparin you for war, don't give up the fight//
You need to stand up for your rights//..."
You don't have to be sorry about anything. I was kinda harsh on my words as well, and I should be the one apologizing. (Note to sef: don't drink and post! )
err...I don't know about this one...
But I'm sure you understand where I'm coming from...here in the U.S, dance music is very very under arrpeciated and even worse not well known as these other pop acts that run the airtimes...slowly, electronica is being heard in more places than you'd expect here in the states...Heaven Scent as BGM for an ad for a comic book series aired on MTV in the United States? Whats' going on?!
There's alot of good music out there, and it's sad to see how such a globally large community like tranceaddict.com houses members who have some of the most shallowest tastes for music I've ever seen...I've talked to people who listen to radio shit that have a better undrstanding of music than most likely more than a good majority of members here on ta.com
Trust me on this one man...broaden your musical tastes. It'll open up lines of communication beyond your boundaries, and eventually lead back to your own musical interst, which is obviously trance. THEN you can bombard that person with your trance knowledge...and I'm sure you have a good one at that. |
I'm going to have to digress on two points here.
1. Electronica has long been 'background music' for commercials. Moby's Play album set some kind of record cos every single one of the songs was licensed for use in a commercial ( i think it was that album) etc.
2. how come something promote "togetherness" and individuality at the same time, they are mutually exclusive, or at least they are in the sense you said it. Maybe if you said it promotes the unity of people who are individualists, now that would make sense (not that I agree).
3. I agree about broadening your tastes but for christ sake don't listen to shit you don't LIKE (although for fairness there is a lot of material that just doesn't "sink in" the first time you hear it)! That's like eating some really exotic food just cos it's supposed to be good. Hats off to you if you really enjoy music from every genre out there. I take a different approach to the matter, while I might not enjoy listening to most of that old led zepplin or pink floyd (although i can dig a couple of there tracks) I can definetely appreciate and respect the music for what it is.
I think that is the most important part, genre snobs come off extremely jaded and ignorant "everything but X" sucks make you look like not only a. an asshole but more importantly b. ignorant.
That being said I enjoy a semi-wide variety (not many!) of musical genres outside electronica. Tool, Coldplay, Radiohead, Dave Matthews Band (esp. the tiesto remix of "the space between" not to be an OMG WHORE, but OMG!!! I DIE), maybe even occasionally an eminem track  .
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