PriZm

True enough. What's wrong is saying an entire genre is uninspired bullshit. There are certain musical elements that make a genre a genre, and you're free to dislike it, but not say it makes the whole genre shit and that people who listen to it are stupid.

.... I wasn't serious. --pZm

Indie music as a genre doesn't exist. The music a band makes cannot be categorized based on whether or not they're signed with a label or not. So, basically, the problem with pop, or metal, or jazz (etc) occurs when people stop treating the art simply as an art and more like a way of life. People don't listen to The Backstreet Boys because it's 'gay', avoid 'My Chemical Romance' because it's 'emo' and Chrisitina Aguilera because she's a slut and this, before they even take the time to listen to their songs. This, I think, is the problem with modern music, be it pop or anything else. It is marketed as a way of life instead of a way of communicating emotions. However, this doesn't mean current artists aren't as good as older ones, its just how they are presented. And saying that all artists in a given genre sound more or less the same... well it's a given since the concept of genre wouldn't exist if there weren't similarities between the different songs. And I don't think all pop artists sound the same more than metal, rock or jazz artists do.

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If lyrics play an important part in your likes and dislikes of music and you dislike the general themes discussed by today's pop music, then, obviously, you won't like pop music and you'll have a good reason not to. Also about the image thing, that's certainly true for many pop performers. But don't forget that those performers (rappers, divas, whatever) aren't generally the people who actually write or produce the music. And when they say: "I wrote my own songs", they often are talking about just the lyrics. As for the difference between pop and popular music, sure, I don't think Pink Floyd should be classified as pop. But then again, maybe Christina Aguilera and Beyonce should be classified as RnB and others as nu-hardcore indie emo meta-heuristic punk-rock shit. But let's just say that pop music is : "Music that currently hits the top of the billboard".

gay people most certainly are gay. Shut the Frattop. That didn't even make sense.

No it's not. I think he's just annoyed at elitist faggots who say pop music is shit because its mainstream. Writing a good catchy melody and structuring your song so that it becomes a hit is as hard as for any other genre, not to mention many pop artists are excellent performers and the production is top notch. Anybody can look at a chords chart or use the Pitch Axis to write a 267 chords song in 23/16. It's making it sound good that is hard. In that respect, pop music isn't different from anything else. Also, as far as complexity goes, I'd say jazz tops classical music. And I liked Toxic.

Fixed and agreed.

OMFG. Episode 32's music was THE SHIT.

OK thanks.

Hey guys is Wii Play worth it for casual party gaming ?

OIC U MEANT THEY WHERE MISTAKAINLY PUT IN SQUARE - XENO LOLOL

Where oh where are teh Xenosaga avaters ?

Why would you want to be using Linux if you own XP ? What are the benefits ?

Any expert on RTOS here ? I'm having a final exam in 3 days on RTOS and I don't understand how to do response time analysis. specifically, the w(i,n+1) = Ci + sum((w(i,n)/Tj) * Cj) equation. Anybody knows what the hell I'm talking about ?

The Wii is still almost impossible to obtain in Montreal. Fuck.

Who gives a fuck about whether a game is innovative or not anyways ? As long as its fun to play.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-party_developer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-party_developer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_developer Just to make it absolutely clear, Sony IS a developer.

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Okami .

Thadow of the Colothuth ? what ?

Btw, I'm PriZm001 on Resistance (PSNetwork). I'll probably be buying virtua fighter 5 soon too.

Congratulations brother. I hope she cooks well.

major scale is correct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_scale

The last boss in Lagoon was pretty hard