For me : Trippie Redd’s “!” Is actually a great album

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    IDK if it’s unpopular, but I’m worried that TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube Shorts have completely screwed with what kind of music gets popular nowadays. It seems like every popular song has some kind of intense drop because content creators love the “quick build up to some kind of visual punchline” video format and it has ruined what I think could otherwise influence and encourage originality

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      7 months ago

      Historically, music changes to fit the medium that’s used to deliver it to the listener. Short form video is no different. I just have to trust that artists will always find ways to say what they need to say. After all, “the enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

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        7 months ago

        I have never heard that quote. From what context does it come? It sounds somewhat ridiculous to me

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          7 months ago

          It’s often attributed to Orson Welles, but I don’t know if that’s accurate. It is paradoxical, yes, but I find it to be a commonly relatable sentiment though across many art forms. It almost seems like the art world’s version of “necessity is the mother of invention”.

          Without limitations, there’s little opportunity for art; or to frame it another way, if everything is expected, nothing can be surprising. It’s when an artist’s work “jumps off the page” that people are in awe, so it’s important there’s a “page” to “jump off of” as it were.

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      7 months ago

      Also record labels probably can pay to have tiktok promote their music and that makes people like it artificially.

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      7 months ago

      The same thing happened in the mid 2000’s with ringtone rap. This phenomenon is older than people think.