Ruphus -> Has the pop-musical turn-around set in now? (Feb. 8 2013 19:59:27)
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There have been several run-ups already like with Nirvana which the disorientated generation thought to be new music that had to have its own name for who had never heard the preceeding `grunge´of Procol Harum, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young and those in between. There have been very conscious looks back like of Lenny Kravitz, and even original dispatches like of Sheryl Crow. However, the deafened consumer majority raised with looped simplicity was not yet fed up with monotonous cacophonies and not yet ready for a musical relaunch. Apparently 3 decades of over and over rap´n tech triviality weren´t enough yet. Now, maybe the time has come. There is some "live" soap in German TV Channel RTLII which I watch sporadically, for the scenes shown there that I used to live in Cologne and Berlin. And in these shows the pieces faded in lately as sound tracks might be all the rage in hipster Berlin. And what do I hear in those vastly project studio sounding ( nothing against amateur flair) tracks? No hiphop, no techno anymore. Instead what comes through from these brand new makes is The Beatles, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Papas & Mamas, Stevie Wonder, Steve Miller and Kraftwerk. Having figured already in the eighties that actually inventing anything after the creative explosions of beauty in the esixties and seventies resides near impossible, I don´t mind leanings against past masters and actually appreciate each somewhat original sequence or arrangement. What counts for me, if what I hear in those TV soaps actually and finally, finally may present a general return to musically containing, handcrafted, varying, accelerating, harmonical and rhythmically evolving music ... is that the main stream may return to consuming and appreciating organical, vital and eventually even pulling music. Should this finally be the burial of a shallow fashion dictature of hyped undemanding noise ... should we be seeing youngsters again who be rocking along to something that doesn´t require you to invent solicitous movement as dance, and seeing lovers who be absorbed by atmosphere floated by some actual gear like acoustic strings and hiats ... then may I raise that fictive glass to you my friends, where ever you are, welcoming you back to popular music with a toast like: "We shall overcome... in a yellow submarine!" [:)] [:)] Ruphus
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