Okay, forget about the music police and music snobs. What do they know ?
What kind of unhip music you really like (but you aren't very keen on admitting it ?)
I'll give some examples:
- Simon and Garfunkel : there's nothing wrong with them.
- Sting : before he became boring, he was a kick ass songwriter.
- Peter Gabriel : same thing.
- John Denver : okay a bit of a nerd, but he had a good voice and a few great songs.
- Enya : erm, well, Orinoco Flow is kinda catchy.
- Abba : still sounds fresh imo.
- Iron Maiden : rock dinosaurs, but an excellent live act.
- Queen : at their best, they were amazing.
And so on.
So, start confessing people.
__________________ The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
I have no hip and uphip meter so I don't know if what I listen to is unhip or not. Put these bands in your unhip meter and tell me which ones are hip and which ones aren't.
The Mars Volta
At the drive in
Led Zep
Tool
A Perfect O
311
Britney spears
Yeah, I'm gonna join the gang and just say "I don't get it, yo!". Most of the names you've put forward are classic performers who have stood the test of Time. I don't know what kind of test Time made, but I imagine it involved some clocks, watches and sun-dials.
Any thoughts?
__________________ Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
__________________ Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
What are you saying, Bardock? What are you saying?
__________________ Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
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That something is a well known fact. Something to do with really homophobic people. Something that they have in common with other people that like Justin Timberlake. Something about penises , too, I believe. Well, not sure. Just thought it might be a well known fact.
Wait...I know what you're talking about; tiny robotic cows, right?
__________________ Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
All of the performers I mentioned, were once respected, popular and "hip". But these days, they aren't anymore, or they have at least lost a lot of their "hip factor". I think that's sad.
But remember, being unhip doesn't mean they never were popular, or weren't talented.
Ask the current generation to make a list of the 100 most hip artists => not even one of the people I listed would be mentioned. Or do you people really think that somebody like John Denver would be on such a list ? Forget it.
Why ? Because they are just not hip anymore. Do I care ? No, absolutely not, some of them remain excellent. Who cares about being hip.
It's my personal experience that quite a lot of people secretly like those old dinosaurs, but don't like admitting it because it's bad for whatever is left of their - cough cough - street credibility (Hey I don't really like Joe Cocker okay, my brother just asked me to listen to it, I'm more into dark emo dance trance fusion cool jazz ).
Maybe I should have stressed the fact that I was mainly talking about the "musical elite" we all know (Bee Gees ? Gimme a break, I only listen to Nick Drake and Brian Eno, the intellectual stuff) and the current generation of teenagers, who seem to worship the most overrated artists ever.
Of course, I should have known that it would be off topic the moment the thread was created (Hip ? Unhip ? What do you mean ? Queen isn't unhip.)
This thread is about prejudices, not about deciding who's hip and unhip and why and why not. I'm not interested in that.
__________________ The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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