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desiringmachineI just caught myself about to go back and edit my post to put in the song Base (Silence is golden mix) by COntaX. Why? Why do we put our mood and songs on our posts? Like reality tv or a bad movie, when there is no substance or no script, we try to paint a mood with music. This song sends me spinning, and I want to share the experience I get from hearing it...but no one knows this song, and even if they did know the song who is to say how other people hear it, what feelings it invokes in them?
This is why Linkiln Park sucks - their music is actually somewhat compelling, there are clearly moods in the sounds they produce, but it's all lacking substance. There are no words, there is no thought in their song. It's dumbed down to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Much mood music is, you can paint a mood with music, and the less you say about the mood itself the wider the appeal. I hear and feel this from this song, perhaps someone else thinks of puppies, someone else sees a realtionship being consumated with a sharp blade.
Is it necessarily dumb to have a wide appeal? I suppose more complex music doesn't need words at all, and the mood painted is only heard by those reaching to understand it. Ah, now burning and looting is on...the words are burning and looting, my picture and impulse is to be sitting on an ugly couch with my stoner girlfriend laughing as my friends play sonic and pass the bong around. The windows are open and you can hear kids laughing at the pool.
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