But what I want to discuss is that most of the rock bands that appear in Great Britain, and have success, sells their bodies and lyrics to the great corporations, making themselves empty, over selled searching more and more money (but they always excuses saying: “we want that a lot of people know our music”). Sadly, there are more bands that are remarkable and have a lot of poetry in their songs. Bands like Bauhaus Joy Division, Roxy Music, Killing Joke, etc, (generally from the post-glam rock or darkwave period) are part of the list of bands that are only known in the (horrible) eighties, but they haven’t passed away in time. Only a few young people know them because they have searched about rock history, but they are without resources to have their music or albums (as a collection) because it’s only on vinyls, and they’re very expensive. They have to conform themselves with the bad quality of a downloaded youtube video.
As a conclusion, I think that people only known the stereotypical music, the over sold bands without soul, the MTV bands, etc. My question is: Why people only want what the corporations sell?, Why people doesn’t like to research about things that have made with true feelings?
I think that this killing joke song is very addequate to this entry...
I completely agree with you, most of the popular bands or singers souls themselves to a company, becoming a product, which its importance depends of how many albums they sell, or how many visits their videos had on youtube.
ResponderEliminarPersonally, I don’t like those kinds of music bands which change just because they want to sell more copies than other bands, I mean; every good music band has its own style. However, I think that music, and the sense that we give to it, depends on every person, maybe a lyric of a song have some special sense for someone, but, for others, maybe it is senseless.
I’ve never listened to most of the groups that you have mentioned, but I really enjoy listening to music. All that I care in a song is a lyric with sense, or a special and different rhythm. For me, that’s enough.
Answering your question, I think that people just don’t mind, or really don’t give a sense or a special meaning to the songs. They just get conformed of what they are listening to, that most of the times, it is what’s usually listen nowadays. They just are focus on whatever it caught their attention, and that’s all. Also, they don’t care to look for more music than they can hear through the radio or in any other occasion. As I know, music, here in Chile, is very limited, especially those bands which are from other countries, just if you are “in love” with music, you will search for something else.