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by djshiva » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:14 pm
one thing i do want to address is that i always find it funny that dark/aggressive/hard vibes are considered "masculine", while lighter/prettier/vocally stuff is considered "feminine".
i think it's a generalization that goes deeper than just musical style (the whole image of masculine as aggressive and feminine and light and nice...), but it rears its head in any talk of musical subgenrification.
i know plenty of women who like really rough bangin' music and not so much the lighter end of things, and i know plenty of guys who prefer the deeper stuff and aren't really fans of the harder end of the music spectrum.
so i guess what i am saying is, can we stop gender-identifying music? music does not have gender, and appeals to people on an entirely subjective level.
and i think that's at the heart of this whole worry too. people like what they like. and yes, the bigger names can forcefeed the styles they like, but the availability of the music, as its internet presence widens, keeps showing me that people are bringing all kinds of styles and perspectives, and it will grow and mutate and there will be good and bad, but ultimately, the listener will like what they like. and ultimately, we have little control over that.
i can understand wanting to hold onto something that so many of you were there for at the beginning. i respect the originators and all the people who have a longer history with the sound than i do. but it's like any community or music...once more people become involved, eventually it becomes its own monster, and you can add your own perspective into the sound and into the mix, but trying to control its direction becomes futile and restrictive. then you end up with people putting boundaries on what the sound is, instead of thinking what the sound could be, and genre sizan abound. that's a pretty dystopic vision to me, and i would rather open up and look toward what's good and just ignore what's not (and that, is just my subjective opinion anyway).
ok...end rant. gawd i am long-winded when i am avoiding work.
*edited because my use of the word "ultimately" was redundant and annoying, even to myself*
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djshiva on Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:20 pm, edited 2 times in total.
