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PersianMafia
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| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
Cheese is defined as music that is fake, canned, and forced. It is trying to be something it's not. It is pretending it is deep and sophisticated, emotional stuff, but in truth it is just going through the motions, playing out some simple, tired cliche. In short, cheese music lies to you. It tries to appeal to your emotions, tug your heartstrings, and get you to feel a certain way toward it. But you feel nothing at all. Why?
Because your intelligence is being insulted. You hate being deceived. You hate being controlled and manipulated. You hate being compartmentalized into a little emotional sponge for this cheese music to fill you with tired formulas. It sounds way too affected to have any meaningful impact on you. Or anyone, for that matter.
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Commercial is that which attempts to appeal to the most possible number of people. Something that strives for universality.
Of course, in order to achieve this aim, the music must thus be very safe, very bland, and very inoffensive. So it's not a thing, per se. It is a process. A process of political correctness, in a way.
The process of commercialization is the process of watering down and smoothing something out for mass digestion. Any genre of music can become commercial if it’s given the shiny, plastic, polished sheen of simple tinker toys (or any mass-produced consumer good). In fact, over the past fifty years, everything, from rap, to rock, to punk, to R&B, to jazz, to techno has become commercial music at one time or another. The purpose of commercial music is not to evoke emotion or have any lasting appeal. It is to move units; sell the most music to the most possible numbers of people very quickly. It is essentially fast food; something people do not value the inherent quality of but seek instantaneous and short-term sustenance.
It is not elitist to hate this process. For those of us who enjoy care, quality, professionalism, and earnest, heartfelt passion, with genuine emotion injected into our music, commercial music is blasphemy. People don't hate it because it's bad--quite the contrary, commercial music is expertly produced. No. People hate it because it's simply boring. It has to be, in order to be likable by everyone. |
Evoke emotion? Commercialism process? Cheese process? Who said ALLL commercial artists don't put "care, quality, heartfelt etc" in their music? Once again you prove to be foundation-less in your arguments, as some have mentioned before me. Are you reading what you're typing? It's the most stereotyped, ridiculous propaganda I've ever read. It's amusing and poshly written, but in the end you're arguments and posts epitomize the ignorance in many 'musically elite' people - edm or not.
Don't quit your day job, and keep the site running, I actually enjoy it. The "Ferry Corsten killed it part" cracks me up each time.
Last edited by PersianMafia on Dec-08-2005 at 02:21
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