mark indigo -> RE: future of flamenco (Sep. 30 2022 19:20:47)
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Rosalia not only captivates students and others who don't know better with her popster image. The Washington Post's music critic, Chris Richards, was breathlessly captivated by her during her recent performance in Washington, DC. Chris Richards, in my opinion, is just this side of being a fool. His gush-piece over Rosalia was downright embarrassing. A couple of quotes from Richards demonstrate his lack of taste in music, as well as his need for a remedial course in English expression, to wit: “In Rosalia’s music, futurism doesn’t feel like anticipation or prophesy so much as a test of our temporal condition’s tensile strength, a means of living out the fullness of our imaginations.” And if that were not enough, there’s this: “Her set opened with ‘Saoko,” a song whose sputtery jazz intro quickly gave way to a pendulous baseline that sounded like a spaceship parallel parking on the roof.” And of course there was his inevitable reference to, as he termed it, her “neo-flamenco.” What utter drivel. Rosalia's excuse is she appeals to a group of primarily teenage philistines. Richards's excuse is he is an adult posing as the world's oldest teenager. Have you sent your review of his review to the Washington Post? You should! I assume they have a letters-to-the-editor page? I was trapped in a car for over an hour with a Spanish lady (not a teenager) who gave me a lecture on Rosalia that seemed to be repeated verbatim from her record company's PR department (or perhaps some newspaper's idiot music critic), all about how she had "turned flamenco upside down", revolutionised it, reinvented it etc. etc., blah, blah, blah.... I was very diplomatic, at one point I said "Rosalia? is she the one that uses auto-tune?" She said "what's auto-tune?" I said, "something pop stars use to make their voice sound in tune."[:D]
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