shpongles wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed the abundance of hard modern rock in AMVs here. There's already a bunch of discussion on it around.
If by 'hard modern rock' you're referring to nauseating amounts of nü-metal and 3rd Wave Post-Grunge/Hard Alt. Rock, then I agree, to a point. It may have been original at some point (likely around 2000-2001), but now it's a bit outplayed.
BUT they just keep coming! ...So I ask, why?
It's as unoriginal as you can get with music. The only rationale I can make of this is that lots of people who listen to mainstream bands make mainstream AMVs... hoping that mainstreamers will watch it. Is not being an "audiophile" a justifiable excuse?
AMV editors are just as susceptible to the industry's attempts to shovel the cesspool of music down people's throats as anybody else. Admittedly, the forums are somewhat unrepresentative of that, but when it does happen, what the video lacks in musical originality it usually makes up for in editing, which many of the rest that don't use the forums lack (again, exceptions exist, but the concentration isn't as high).
Rock (and rap while we're at it) is just so very irrelevant to anime, of course there will always be exceptions. But for the most part it just doesn't look/sound right; no synergy.
So I guess that discredits all those anime series that actually use rock and rap in their original soundtracks?
Anyways, the best AMVs I've seen never use rock. Instead they use distinctive instrumental, vocal, or electronic music. But again, there will always be exceptions.
Even defining 'electronic music' is a tricky subject, as it's an outcropping of rock most times; it separated from rock in the late 60s and grew increasingly apart during the 70s, only for a few forms to merge back in during the 80s and 90s. Industrial or Alternative Dance, for instance, are just as much rock as they are electronic music. Unless you're using something like Merzbow, of course, but I don't know anyone who has ever attempted that (and I wouldn't be very inclined to watch a video where the song selection is composed of bursts of static and distorted, bloodcurdling screams).
