On Mon, August 30, 2010 2:04 am, Julien Claassen wrote: > Hello! > But when do you get in people's heads? When you have a special topic of > lyrics or when you have the right tune or the telegene performers? I think > lyrics are never something to attract people. At least not when you're > thinking of pop and those who listen only to pop. There are some good > lyrics, > some better than the production of the music, but not often. > Another argument: You say affecting the "bad" stuff, like aggressiveness > and > sexual instincts. I say: sexual instincts aren't a bad thing. That is very > prominent - I feel - within people who are strong believers in their > religion. > I think mostly in the abrahamite religions. I think it's something laughed > at, > frowned at and twisted once too often. As some comedian once said: I'd > rather > have my kid watch two people fucking, than two people killing themselves. > But maybe a little besides the original question. Still when it comes > to > influences in good or bad ways, there is a debatable issue, weather only > bad > characteristics of listeners are encourraged. > Beyond that, I think we had attempts at our better nature: Friends will > be > friends and I remember, that there were more "let's all be good friends' > songs > in the mid to late 90s, even some coorperations between pop stars of the > time. > It didn't last too long. I suppose because the underlying music wasn't too > good and catching. All good thoughts. I am not looking at specifically one type of emotional result. I am not even that concerned by the sex and aggression in music in and of itself. What I am concerned with is the constant bombardment of one point of view that is being forced on us by western mass media. I think it is a valid approach to dealing with the problem by going directly at the source and making some popular club music that has the ability to subconsciously affect people in a way that counteracts the IMO negative affects of the majority of popular club music. I estimate that it would only need one song every 6 months that makes it through the cracks to keep people from going insane and becoming the mindless zombies that the mass media is trying hard to create/control. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
