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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (57684)10/6/2006 8:35:35 PM
From: Doren  Read Replies (1) of 213177
 
pop music is intended for young, stupid people.

Correction:

STUPID POP MUSIC is intended for young, stupid people.

It's really impossible to generalize about art this way because great artists ALWAYS challenge your expectations and break rules.

I guarantee you there is some really really great challenging pop music out there for adults. The problem is separating the wheat from the chaff. Listening to music usually implies some mental effort and unless you are willing to meet the artist half way you remain stagnant.

There was a time I turned my nose up at pop, but I've been over that for a long time.

In fact this idea of genre was and is hated by many musicians, most notably Duke Ellington who hated it when his music was categorized. Genre is a mentally lazy way to find good music and it doesn't work because very little music in any genre is really exceptional. In fact most artists have only a few good ideas or recordings.

That is the definition of exceptional. Better yet is music that can not be contained by a genre.

I used to hate that about Tower. I could never find what I was looking for because they categorized their music according to genre. Drove me nuts. I have one CD that was in the Blues section AND at other times in the Classical section. It's worth a pile of money these days.

Ha ha.
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