Re: What are you listening to right now?
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 4:35 am
A subject can be as important or as unimportant as you like. I don't believe in ranking things in terms of scope, like something is of less value or is less important because it is self-centered. Your world is your world after all, and there are many things happening in your world that are immensely important to you but totally unimportant to someone else. It's possible even that the things that are most self-centered, like romantic relationships or emotional suffering, are those most likely to be able to reach out to other people, to become common, precisely because they are so close to the heart of the one speaking them, unlike some more general observation which is more likely to remain distant. If an observation of the latter kind does become deeply relateable it is usually because there is something very personal in it, thus it too is on the self-centered side.
Whether something works or not is really all in the delivery. If there's anything to be annoyed about regarding this subject in pop music, it's that not much is there to really engage me. You talk about heartbreak and all that, but is it really? I don't feel it. Therefore it becomes more like wallpaper, it might as well be anything. Which I can't say about for example "Three Cigarettes" by Patsy Cline, or "I Would Rather Go Blind" by Etta James, or probably a hundred others.
Whether something works or not is really all in the delivery. If there's anything to be annoyed about regarding this subject in pop music, it's that not much is there to really engage me. You talk about heartbreak and all that, but is it really? I don't feel it. Therefore it becomes more like wallpaper, it might as well be anything. Which I can't say about for example "Three Cigarettes" by Patsy Cline, or "I Would Rather Go Blind" by Etta James, or probably a hundred others.