Monday, 7 March 2016

Sound Design Post 5

This week is RAG week. (Raising And Giving), but it has seemed to loose that meaning in Irish Society. The 'RAG' starts to stand for, "Let's get and drunk/high as possible" nowadays. But I'm not complaining, (at least not until the next morning), there reason why I brought this up is because when I went to all the house parties, there seems to be a generic staple in music nowadays where the most played and most popular tend to send the same, are at the same tempo, and repeat the same line of lyrics that were said from the beginning. Now, I understand that this style of music is highly appealing in nightclubs because when the song never has a bridge (a chill down moment in a song that usually takes place after 2 verses & 2 chorus', which then lead into another chorus), that leads the audience to keep dancing. Sure there is a build up moment where the audience waits for the beat to drop, but that creates the opposite of a chill out. It instead creates a really tense atmosphere where the audience feel more relieved after the beat drops. The problem I have with this music is that nowadays it's everywhere, all of the time and feels like I'm listening to the same song on repeat. Not  just in house parties, but gyms, swimming pools, trampoline parks, etc.
People use the expression "shit music". I don't believe in bad music. That's like saying Liverpool is shit and Man City is the best. It's always just sticking with the majority / minority. Why not have it all? I think all music is good, as long as it was mad to be good and has a constant rhythm (the only exception to this is the geniously made, but horribly sounding 'Piano Quartet by Gerald Barry *shivers/cringes*). However when a song is overplayed, it gets to a point where it is unbearable. My best example is 'Let it Go' from the Disney Animation "FROZEN". Let it go is one of the best songs made by Disney and the Video that went along with it was just stunning. However it has gotten to a point where it has been so overplayed that you can't help but go like "ARGH!!" every time you hear someone sing it.

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