Recent content by Joyous Insurrection

I think this argument about the artistic merits of minimalism is kind of off-topic honestly. Maybe that should be a different thread? And in response to the comment that you can't really sit down and listen to dance music. I disagree with that. I've never really danced in my life, and I enjoy a...

No, it hasn't. The only consistent aspects of pop are melodicism and hooks. "Casual listenability" more or less. Sometimes danceability. Besides that it just means popular. When people talk about pop and that's what they mean, they're wrong. I mean they're right in a very vague sense. If...

People who do consciously decide whether to like a song or not don't. I mean if you go into something not wanting to like it, you probably won't, but besides that you can't really just "decide" to like or dislike a song because music usually works on a gut level. I agree with you on that, but...

1) For those of you citing such and such random golden oldie from the past and citing that as proof that music was better back in such and such. Please just read the last section of this...

Elvis was pioneer of Rock'n'Roll (Little Richard was first) and made really good music in his own little style but never really managed to move forward. Tupac is an okay rapper that I never really got. Freddie Mercury is quite possibly the greatest frontman of all time and with Queen he not...