Eminem v. Pynchon

[CyrusGeo at netscape.net]

"Otto" <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
>
> > >
> > But don't bag the Backstreet Boys too much - they
> > lead their particular pack and usually have a couple of pop classics to
> > offer on an album...
> >
> > Phil
> >
> 
> Agreed.
> Even in the Boygroups-corner there are differences in quality and surely
> there's much, simply "bad" or boring, uninteresting and unnecessary music on
> many 70's records too. 

Most "commercial" bands today (including boygroups, girlgroups and whatnot) don't write their own stuff. They rely on proffessionals who know what can be sold in millions and what can't. And most of these guys and girls would be nowhere if it weren't for their ingenious producers. So, you see, they're just a front, a hollow image, a hologram. In the 70's, however bad the music in some cases, there were real people behind it, with their own personal vision and ideas, shaping their own material, following their own way. And the producer was an assistant, not a master.

Some of today's "bands" think of themselves as "artists".
A catchy tune repeated for the 26,325th time doesn't constitute "art".

As for Eminem, fraud or no fraud, he's interesting. That's enough for me.

Cyrus
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