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i've been thinking about this post, and honestly, i'd be a horrible judge in this contest, since i listen to very little radio or pop music anymore.
but at the beginning of this school year (aug 08), the music writer, chuck klosterman came to speak at the U of IA as a guest speaker for welcome week.
i had low expectations for it, i've read 2 of his books, anyway...
he had some good points talking about music/pop culture.
one that really stuck w/ me is the advent of the internet, it seems like music styles/ trends come and go so fast, something hot one second, then it's gone next and people talk about how crappy it was, or put it down.
one point he made was in talking to someone he decided he didn't want to define himself by what he hated (and it seems like i read so much "i hate this or that about everything on the internet), and instead he said he wanted to define himself by what he LIKED (this is a simple paraphrase), but i thought it was a good comment. and i've tried to keep that in mind for the last few months..
the other thing he said is he felt bad for music fans nowadays, since things change so fast, that its hard to fall in w/ groups love like-minded music-talking about how it's impossible to "build a scene" like existed in 60s through 90s (even though i would say the term "alternative" was a made up concept-it seems like the groups from seattle area enjoyed the last big hurrah)
i think he made a point about goth music-if you really like goth, there doesn't seem to be much out there if you like that type of music, where as in the 80's there was lots of sub-genres that existed besides pop (hence the development of the groups that exploded in light of the "alternative movement in the 90's". interesting pts that he had, and he's pretty funny in talking about how much he loves hair-metal of 80s, and how much people seem to despise it now. he laughed a lot about that.
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