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- agentnumone February 2007
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- cloudrabbit7 February 2007
- Courtneytastic February 2007
- dollarflame6 February 2007
- hail9fat February 2007
- jedi_grrlie February 2007
- okraparrot5 February 2007
- search0pear February 2007
- sherib January 2007
- spy9black January 2007
- tenor2barber February 2007
- tune1shade February 2007
- veinleo09 February 2007
- women60banana January 2007
- ytel82 February 2007
Comments
what do you mean?
music is not my life.
but its a big part of it I guess.
music is not my life.
but its a big part of it I guess.
i think i agree.
isn't that that womans e-mail thingy in that aol commerical about the "new aol". right??? am i right??? idk
something about her name @musicismylife.com?!?!?
OMG
something about her name @musicismylife.com?!?!?
OMG
i think so!!! haha
something about her name @musicismylife.com?!?!?
OMG
HAHAHAH I totally saw that too!
lol that made me giggle
lol that made me giggle
HAHAHA! awesome! im not crazy and making things up.
(note: idk y i feel the need to put "hahaha" after i already put the lol smiley)
But when kids who listen to music like Fergie and that sort say that... then it just kind of is weird. Fergie, I don't like so much, but whatever floats your boat, eh? But her music seems to have little to no thought or emotion put into it whatsoever other than "me so horny lols". Then again, it might just be me...?
I don't think I would say that music is my life, but it definitely is a huge part of it. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't know how to play the piano. I wouldn't be me. I can't explain it. I guess it's one of those things that you have to experience to understand.
By the way, thanks to those who answered.
i love when musicians are really into what they do
i think its ok for people to say music is their life. if thats how they feel then great. idk. im not sure what id say for me. i mean i listen to ok go A LOT and i think about it all the time, and i may have said that its my life...but is it? idk. i really like it. i cant play it. idk.
i love when musicians are really into what they do
i think its ok for people to say music is their life. if thats how they feel then great. idk. im not sure what id say for me. i mean i listen to ok go A LOT and i think about it all the time, and i may have said that its my life...but is it? idk. i really like it. i cant play it. idk.
good points.
sure, i get u. i kind of agree. idk
sure, i get u. i kind of agree. idk
thanks :]
fergie - someone please tell my why shes so obessed with spelling things! haha
the fix is in - thanks i was wondering what that was about too
analyzation/interpretation of songs - im really bad at english and stuff so often i dont really "get" what a song is about (like the fix is in) and then i dont really appreciate it and then i feel bad.. i think in general i appreciate songs that i can relate to or address something where i can understand where they're coming from.. but of course random songs are great too (hello my treacherous friends for instance.. though i recently learned through these boards what it was really about and i thought it was hilarious)
music is my life - yeah that can be pretty wierd to say unless you are a musician.. for all of us boardies it is definately a large part of our lives or else we wouldn't be here but its not our life.. and good job claret for knowing how to play the piano.. im a retard and have had a guitar for about 3 or 4 years and i cant play.. someone recently taught me chords and i try to practice but geoodd its so hard..
okay i think thats everything you guys discussed!
Music is the background to my life, but it's so much more than that... it's... well, it's like the jam to my peanut butter; my life would not be a delicious simile without my music. (I'm going to stop talking before I say anything else retarded
Hmmm. I guess no one really agrees with me about it. I mean, you guys all seem to be talking about music with lyrics. I mean, if you listen to a piece of music with no words, it doesn't matter what language you speak. You don't need to understand it. You can just listen.
I don't know. For me, sometimes I don't even listen to the lyrics really. Me listening to rap music is so funny; I won't be listening to what the guy is saying until he says a bad word or something really dirty, and then I'm like "whooaaa wait back up, I missed that." Ha ha.
I don't mind SOME rap. That one song by Chamillionaire (they see me rooolliiin...they hatiiin) is beyond hilarious
yea i agree. and i think you make sense.
well, that was such an insane statement- I'll shut up now, sorry.
(Note: I know very, very little about art. The most knowledge I have is multiple, multiple, trips to museums and a boyfriend who took a lot of art history courses. That's about it.)
I was actually talking to my boyfriend about the interpretation of art recently. He's an artist and we were discussing a recent selling of some of his work at a local art gallery during a benefit sale (it was a grouping of all these artists work, both famous and non-famous, though the names were not displayed. Everything was priced the same so no one knew what artist they were buying. It was rather ingenious actually). Anyway, he found out about one woman who bought one of his pieces. She said she bought it because every time she looked at it, it reminded her of sex. Now, this wasn't his intent at all. Still, that's what she saw.
We talked about how one can be an incredible and brilliant artist, but if the piece makes no connection with the observer, it is essentially worthless. Now, this mostly applies to contemporary art; for more traditional pieces, such as impressionist works, the painting/sculpture/etc. usually depicts something very interpretable: a landscape, two girls at a piano, lily pads and a bridge. They are aesthetically pleasing and show a mastery of the medium used, making them easier to sell (I'm not discounting their work at all. The ones that sell are the ones that show a mastery of the work. No one will want a half-assed or badly done classical piece. The remembered classical artists are some of the most adept of their medium.) People do not need to emotionally connect with the piece as much as what is being observed by the artist is what is being observed by the patron.
However, for more abstract pieces, there needs to be a connection. This is why contemporary art is so hard for people to grasp. Many people really dislike contemporary art because they are used to seeing the work of masters and not needing to find this connection. My Mom, for example, has always said that she doesn't really enjoy contemporary art because she views art as something she "can't do" herself.
She doesn't take into account the work that goes into trying to establish a connection, which is why contemporary art can be so difficult. For example, I don't understand or connect with the artist (whose name escapes me right now) who simply painted an entire canvas black. I just didn't understand it. However, the work of Pascal Grandmaison, in my opinion, is fantastic.
When I saw his work at the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, I was blown away. Ken, on the other hand, really didn't care too much for it, but I couldn't stop standing there with my mouth open.
Marcel Duchamp, the Dada/Surrealist artist, states this all very well: "The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
This all talks about art in the fine art sense, but the same goes for music. What makes a good piece of work?
Some people want to know, in the way of people with classical artists, what exactly does the song MEAN. By connecting the song to what exactly the artist was thinking, one can gain value from the song. They look at the piece as a finished whole which then may be interpreted as the artist intended.
On the other hand, others will connect to the song on a more personal level, not necessarily in the way the artist intended. In this way, the listener is looking at it in the same way one may look at contemporary art, as the other half to the equation. The musical artist completed most of the work, but that little bit of connection on the part of the observer is what finished the piece. They finish the puzzle.
Neither one nor the other is "better" in any way. They're just two different ways to observe the same thing.
This made little sense and went on way too long. I just find all of this beyond interesting.