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Vice/Thump's Article "Techno Girl Problems" had me cracking up
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| benjamin1forty |
Any article that begins with "I can be insufferably pretentious about house and techno..." has my attention.
"Mom, Stop calling it EDM!!"
"Techno Girl Problems" by Elissa Stolman
I was lol-ing over several parts, and ironically enough was listening to Visionquest at the time.
Anyone here having "Techno Girl Problems"?? |
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| CarS |
random thoughts:
"But all of this is, invariably, lost on whomever I’m talking to. “This is boring,” they tell me."
its music to be experienced, not listened to (at least primarily).
with set and setting really mattering, wouldn't expect much else from most people, given the suboptimal setting they *listened* in for 10(?) min (listening no doubt through some low-fi iPhone / iPod compressed recording on a crappy commercial japanese system with -3dB at 90hz, or, more likely still, a PC-to-desktop-box)
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"trance"
the way that word appears every time in this arrticle, you just know it is meant as in ASOT600 at MSG, W&W, etc, what we like so much here.
so, usage-fail imo.
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mental note: keep kandi handi for exchange
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| benjamin1forty |
| quote: | Originally posted by CarS
mental note: keep kandi handi for exchange
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Hahaha! Dually noted. Where she lost me was -
"also because it sounds boring to most people. Music taste often has little to do with what it actually sounds like, and more to do with how it reflects upon who we are."
Ehhh... What I like certainly does not sound boring to me, and furthermore a certain music taste Does have to do with what it sounds like...
Almost seems as if she likes the scene and attitude that accompany such a Boring music taste moreso than the actual music.
The few statements that I sympathize with with her on were-
"when I was first getting into it: its hypnotic appeal, the way it evokes a mood instead of being 'about' something in a more literal sense",
"After all, even I had to learn to love techno",
and "I don’t even want them to understand why I love dance music—I just want them to respect it, and I want them to know that it’s not EDM."
I guess she feels really passionate about this .:tongue3 |
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| CarS |
i can understand why she wouldn't want people to think she's into the electro-pop-crap...
I did wonder at how mommy and daddy even knew the letters EDM.
ok, she's in college, so that makes the rents young enough, but still, most wouldn't know much to do with the letters, let alone what they are taken to stand for by whomever. |
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