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The Rise of the fake DJ - Ibiza Voice
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| alan |
The Rise of the fake DJ - Ibiza Voice
http://www.ibiza-voice.com/newslett...er_2012_07.html
It may be us, but television, a fairly conservative medium, seems to finally gotten onboard the DJ thing after years of avoiding it. As soon as the names Simon and Cowell, however, were mentioned in the same breath as DJ'ing, it was a signal that there would be loads TV DJ lemmings to follow.
First, there was the Super Bowl - a beastly spectacle of excess passing itself of as an All-American holiday, Madonna looking like the Crypt Keeper of the cable television show Tales From The Crypt dining on the guts of virgin children, and those goons LMFAO rocking the unplugged turntables dragging down M.I.A's credibility with their "tight skills". Then there was the Grammys disaster last weekend that had semi-credible artists like Deadmau5 performing with tired, corporate rock has-beens like Dave Grohl and David Guetta's ongoing (bad) Marcel-Marceau-on-the-decks fakery. Love him or hate him, Skrillex, the industries latest in a series of manufactured bad boys in a long line from Elvis to Iggy to Marilyn, did walk home with the Grammy for Best New Artist, but then again Milli Vanilli did, too.
But that's the Grammys - pageantry with zero substance, the industries' version of the reacharound to help artists ease the pain of feeding such a wretched animal with their blood. Just ask Whitney or Cobain... or Biggie - oh wait, you can't...
And there’s the rub in all of this, the kids may think this is electronic dance music, but the kids don't know much. Not one of us at I Voice fell out of the sky a dance music critical genius, fully versed in classical dialectics and Scientological rhetoric. We went from being dumb kids who thought the fakery of dance music back in the day, whatever era that might be, was the essential. As we learned, we all became aware independently of one crucial fact - that any music specifically made for television is pop, and as such, is stripped of anything that could offend anyone, anywhere, at anytime and as such is anti music, at least in terms of content value. DJs as pantomimes, why not, that's inoffensive, bland, and totally invested in what cultural historian Joe Carducci called - the Pop Narcotic.
These days, TV is the dope of the masses; we killed religion quite some time ago, so now we cling to the one thing that collectively raises our hope. So instead of DJ fakery, let's simply call it an interpretative pantomime of what a DJ can do in hours boiled down to a friendly sound bite for a pop audience interested more in cultural salvation than just simply enjoying the music. But DJ'ing was never designed for that kind of deep, social need, it is a genre based around the enjoying of music.
A TV-polished fake DJ whether it's David Guetta, Steve Angello or Peter Hook can be assumed to be devoid of any enjoyment in the task and has focused more on the money-making aspects of the process every time they are caught faking it, mugging for the TV cameras like Bono in the process, of course. In turn, proponents of DJ'ing are distressed by these creeping tendrils of pop music finally arriving and bringing the same troubles they did to the neighborhoods of other music in the past. Those who know a little history are aware that it is only the beginning of many bad things and fans of the art form should be more than a little alarmed by the trend. |
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| GPC |
I think someone is a little too deep into it :crazy:
It's TV, why is he taking it so seriously? |
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| darin epsilon |
| quote: | Originally posted by alan
Love him or hate him, Skrillex, the industries latest in a series of manufactured bad boys in a long line from Elvis to Iggy to Marilyn, did walk home with the Grammy for Best New Artist, but then again Milli Vanilli did, too. |
Bon Iver won for Best New Artist. |
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| Quazar |
| Have you guys seen any of the EDM "performances" from Top of the Pops in the 90s? Stuff like this isn't new. :p |
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