Music

I <3 style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">I like how you put Journay first instead of Journey... You obviously don't love them enough.

Typo, sorry.
Grammer nazi....

I know. But people should know how to use correct grammar.

I do, but only in papers.

Now to talk about music again.

Does music now have any meaning, or is it all just controlled by numbers and corporate businesses?

All music has meaning. It's just the way that different people interpret it. They just need corporate businesses to market their music.

So "Movin' my hips like yeah" has meaning?

Yes. That's the way she dances. It's a way of expressing what she does. the whole verse is "Noddin' my head like yeah/ Movin' my hips like yeah." It's what she does while listening to JZ, Britney, and her own songs.

'Like yeah" does not describe an action...

That's why she performs while she sings it.

But it is a song, and you dont always watch her when listening to it.

But you can nod your head "like yeah"... which means just nodding your head.

You cant do you homework like yeah or drive a car like yeah.

That's why she didn't put them as lyrics.

If you cant use it for one, you cant use it for another.

Sure you can.

What ever.
Anyways, then do you think that people who dont write there own lyrics should still be considered good artists?

Yeah. If they use someone else's songs, it's the way they interpret it and sing it.

Then do you believe they should be considered just not as good of artists?

Why? They are interpreting something someone else wrote and made it their own personality. If anything, that's what makes them artists.

I don't know why some people believe that. Like with Britney Spears and others with how they dont write, but just sing. They aren't as good as others that do both.

That is the opinion of the music listener as to whether they are good artists or not.

I find it funny that older people say the music of the generations below them is just trash or not really music. Every generation.

Because from the birth of rock and roll on was basically a rebellion against the old ways.

But its not just rock and roll. Many from the generation before ours consider the music we listen to not really music.

That really depends on the genre of music one listens to.

I'm not saying it doesn't, but it still happens, and I find it amusing.

You mean like rap?

Including rap, yes. But also pop and trance and such.

Because rappers don't really "sing". They are talking in their songs, but they have a beat in the background to make it sound like they are singing.

Once again, not just rap though. I know many from older generations who wouldn't understand why anyone would like techno and many other current singers in pop, and even country with how it sounds now.

I think country music has the best singers out of most other genres of music.

Yeah probably. But I'm just saying the sound of it has changed. Not tones, but if you listen to country from even 10 years ago, it sounds different.

Technology has changed.

Yeah and?

Musicians now can make their instruments make different sounds because of the technology.

I'm not saying that it doesn't. And that can be a part of it, but even the speed and tempo is different.

That's not necessarily true. Different singers have different sounds, speed, tempo, etc.

I'm not saying that they don't. But as a whole, it has changed. Not completely and not everyone, but many have.

But you are saying that.

No, I'm not.

Yes.... You are.

No. Where did I say ALL music is different than it was.

We aren't talking about ALL music....
Comparing Taylor Swift to Dolly Parton isn't a viable comparison because Taylor Swift uses her own life to write her songs, so they are gonna sound different than Dolly Parton.

Im not even talking about the lyrics.

I'm talking about the way she uses music and notes and tones and whatnot to create her songs.

Obviously all that would be different or it would be plagerism. But there are certan ways that those things are used now that they never were before.

That's what I'm trying to tell you!

I never said that they wouldn't use different notes and such. But the overall sound is still very different than it used to be. It's kinda like listening to music from the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. When you look at the pop and R&B from each era, it is distinct and different sounding. Each one, even though it might be the same genre, you can listen to a song, and with out even knowing when it was released or who sings it, and know that it is from a certan era because of how it sounds.

That's the arrangement of notes. R&B sounds the same to me no matter what era it is from.

And the arrangement is part of the way it sounds, and it changes as time moves on in each genre. Which is what I am saying I find amusing, because my grandparents said the music my parents listened to in high school and college was trash, and their parents said the same about what they listened to. Even now, many of the stuff my sister and I listen to, our parents say the same thing about it. Not everthing, and not just rap, but a lot of it.

That's because the type of music each generation listens to is different.

I know that. Obviously that is what it is. But I just think it is amusing that despite the fact that they went through the same thing when growing up, they dont apply it to themselves as parents. They complain about it, saying the same things their parents said to them. Not maybe stopping to think, "You know, my parents thought what I listend to was trash, but I dident think so, so maybe what my kid is listing to that i dont really like might not be trash, just different."

I don't even know what we are talking about anymore.

HAHA


So peace out.

GEEKAY

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