a music blog

Here's my weekly art post, inspired by "Dulce et Decorum est"by Wilfred Owen. I read the poem as part of rememberance for veteran's day. I'm totally anti-war and weapons, ever. I don't care what that makes me, I just... can't stand them. Although I do enjoy reading about past wars and history quite a lot.

I'm not sure how to write about music and what it is supposed to be like, but I've decided to try it.

There's nothing wrong with any kind of music. I love classical music the most. The plangent notes and stunning arousal of the orchestra arouse in myself emotions which I cannot describe. If I must choose a more modern genre, it would be ambient music. Vague, complex, and emotional. I have strange tastes and when I do listen to bands, I prefer those with original and interesting lyrics and ideas.

I was scared and appalled when I heard they were going to include Claude Debussy's Claire de Lune from the Suite Bergamasque in the Twilight soundtrack. I see it as blatant abuse of a well-known masterpiece, an insult to Debussy in his genius and a deciding confirmation of my hatred for the Twilight trilogy and its' franchise. I don't think there is anything likable about Twilight whatsoever. The empty, poorly written characters, the uninteresting and obscure setting (the place of action, a small, rainy town in Washington state, is hardly ever used. It is more of an excuse for the bleakness of the events within the book), the blatant self-insert mary-sue POV, the harem-type relationships between most of the characters, and the lack of definable plot make the book an atrocity, a pool of shit in the world of literature. While Debussy, a fantastic inspiration and incredible composer, is paired with the impossibly dull fiction of Twilight, I cannot sleep or dream peacefully.

I don't know if I like this. I frankly don't have much to say about music. Most of my blogs are just me complaining. In fact, I've gone on to complain already. At least I expressed my opinion.

Oh, I'll complain some more. There was a song I heard on the radio, "Whatcha Say." It used excerpts from "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap. I don't know how to express it, but it really angered me. I've liked Imogen Heap/Frou Frou for a long time, before or at least since "Hide and Seek" was used in the popular television series "The OC" (which undoubtably was the trigger for the fame of the song and its' composer in the United States.) I think "Whatcha Say" is a depressing bastardization of her music, and it totally fails to even work with the elements in the song. It just takes part of the song and "raps" around it or whatever is called music these days. I don't even think he used a recording of her track, he just re-recorded it and ill-placed it in his "song."

My sister and I share this opinion. She was with her friend when "Whatcha Say" started playing on the radio. The friend had never heard of Imogen Heap, and when my sister showed her, her friend thought it was weird.

I know there's a million tastes for music out there, but this kind of maybe enrages me a bit. I'm just one of those frumpy people who doesn't like rap? No, because I like "A Tribe Called Quest" and I love listening to their songs. It's just stuff like this, horrendous excuses for music that plague me.