Re: [microsound] Dream

[Greg <gregg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> but surely you can understand the whole hypocritical hype that can exist
> (and most of the time certainly does) behind someone saying that he loves
> madonna (obviously the early stuffs, because the 80s are soooooo great
> nowadays)and let's say, illusions of safety at the same time. I'm not
> denigrating pop music, not at all actually (can't stop listening to new
> order, i know i'll be damned for that one day or another). i'm just
> underlining some movements (i'm not saying that the two are necessarly
> linked together) which have very few to do with music in itself. As for
> "avant-garde", i was above all emphasizing on the preceding term,
> "so-called" (whcih above all means self entitled)... Anyway, i'm just
pissed
> to hear cynical pop stars enrolling just everyone, from naive 7yearold
girls
> to underground electronic composers just because she is clever enough to
> call starving yet brilliant music producers and put a few seductive
elements
> in her dull po music.  At least Britney is honest enough to make purely
> commercial music. Music for the masses...It makes me think: has anybody
> heard about the new depeche mode LP being produced by Mark Bell?

Just to let you know, not a cent is leaving my pocket for the complete works
of Britney Spears...I'll download it off Napster or borrow and burn to CDR.
I *do* have a problem with really forking out money for this sort of stuff,
I'm still spending my $$ on *real* music (har-har).

Anyhow, everything exists as some sort of cultural/economic exchange. There
is no such thing as music-in-itself, so your differentiation between Britney
Spears and some person making experimental electronic music is a little
vague... Britney just belongs to a larger and more culturally dominant
beast.