sorry freinds but the music hasnt arrived yet. still i feel like talking about a pressing issue (pardon my shitty writing skills).
Is it just me or is every label we use on today's youth a bloated corpse of worthlessness. Sure everything started with a sense of whimsy or a cheery way writing of some asshole. But now its just going to turn into a straight face shitty reenactment of the warriors. All these lame gangs so pigeon holed it Just that it loses all the fun that being out and about should bring. Whats worse is the fuckers that constantly harp on these labels like its there only sense of comic relief. How about you try on a shit label for a change. How about the play-it safesters, or mainstream 50s nostalgia lovers (not greasers or beats but those sock-hop ice cream social douche bags) or Conservtron grandpa kids these kids have less charm than 3rd rate vegas entertainer. That shits not coming up off the radar! I don't blame kids for being boring and judgemental but it seems the media has won when we do all the label work. Remember Gen X'ers or Gen Y or any horrible buzz words invented to stifle or stereotype people into oblivion. when you listened to Nirvana in the early 90s you didn't say to yourself " Wow this is some great Alternative-grunge music made by my favorite gen X dudes" its sounds unnatural and barfable. The true Irony is that kids have so much potential creatively and in there persuite to find there voice and yet in there development they are stiff with apprehension. All they can see is crap categories they have to commit to. Thank god current scenes don't have the answers. Our aging brains are overcooked with bad blood like the tail end of gangster rap combined with the overipened hair metal flair in 89. You need a little room and open dialogue to get any substantial social anomalies that you can be proud to call counter culter. Heck, maybe we can thwart the media from trying to define the next coming movements. We can go back to making them fear the sense of unity and vigilance. kids can pick up were the civil rights movement left off and we can have a renassance or some sort of age of enlightenment. Anything remotely positive is better than puritanical label wars. hahaha brosters...were fucked. Comments?
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First off, I believe all labels, even blatantly obvious, terribly contrived ones, are inevitable. That said, its really a matter of who is creating them. If I'm understanding your post correctly, this is where your beef lies. For the most part I agree with you, but fall out when I read about the current scene not having answers (for new labels). If you look at all the major (translate that as popular) musical shifts in the past 20 years, they all feed into a cycle. I'll use Green Day as an example:
ReplyDelete1. birth (fresh on the scene, freshness in general) Green Day's initial influences
2. initial decline (popularized imitation) Green Day circa Dookie
3. stagnation (media labeling) Green Day giving way to Blink 182
4. rejuvenation (reworking into new popularization) Blink 182
Interestingly, I think this cycle can be entirely repeated for Green Day using Blink 182 as its (re) Birth circa that terrible "Time of Your Life" song. And through this, a label like "Pop Punk" can remain reasonably accurate throughout the "progression" of some popularized artists. If a band is savvy enough and has learned the ropes, it will be like Green Day and "re-invent" its sound. Hilariously, its "re-invention" is based entirely off fitting within the awesomely narrow dynamics of a label it itself popularized in the very beginning.
Now, I know I'm harking on Green Day because they're fucking terrible, but I believe this cycle can be extended towards all musical genres and sub-genres, popularized or not (although it can certainly die within overly specific genres, i.e. hair metal). The key factor in the label being such an empty shell is its popularity. The more people get into it, the more hollow and resourceless it becomes. I mean, even labels like "House" or "Techno" can be so easily contorted one way or another because of each of their niche popularity. Worst of all, I think even if a successful renaissance were to happen, it would eventually be labeled, people would be influenced by it, popularity would ensue, and it would become just as fruitless as any other previous label. Its kind of like art, nobody knows what the fuck is going on until something catches on, rich people start buying it and it gets a label.
Categorizing is human nature, even if the process itself distorts reality enough to be completely disingenuous.
But anyway broster, I gotta rock out to some super hard grunge rock by some of my fav gen-xers now.
peace