If popular music reflects the general tempo of life,

godix · Post by **godix** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:44 am

Unless someone can point me to proof of mass spontanious human transformations into walruses as a cause or result of "I Am A Walrus" I refuse to accept the premise that popular music reflects the 'tempo of life'.

Although, thinking about it, the lyric 'here we are now entertain us I feel stupid' is the most honest statement I've ever heard in music. A bunch of whining selfish little brats who are to caught up in themselves to enjoy life so they beg others to amuse them and eventually blow their heads off in boredom because they happened to run out of heroin for the weekend. If I didn't like the song so much I'd hate the entire grunge movement for that one lyric. Maybe there is something to this 'tempo of life' crap.

ShOcKwAvE75 · Post by **ShOcKwAvE75** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:57 am

Isn't it true though that if a song or style of music is widely popular that most people try to imitate that style or song? Where I live Rap and Hip Hop are most popular therefore most of the people in my age range even those older and younger than me are trying to be "Gangstas". Personally I hate rap but most unpopular are people like myself with our own interests and not trying to follow the group and be a rapper.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:57 am

ShOcKwAvE75 wrote:Isn't it true though that if a song or style of music is widely popular that most people try to imitate that style or song?

the music industry also feeds off of that popularity..

okay My Chemical Romance is popular lets find bands that sound similar..

now we got Panic! at the Disco, The Used (though they could have been around longer i donno), fallout boy, and every other garage band we can stuff down peoples throats... :/

its how the music industry works, and why there are certain genres that become "popular" out of the blue... one thing is popular so they go and find as many things as similar as they can so they can market it all to the lemmings that will suck it up...

i guess im a broad spectrum lemming, cause i like all different kinds of music... i cannot get stuck in one genre :/ id get bored too easily :/

i think AMVs reflect the person creating them, not society (atleast when it comes to my amvs)... though with alot of music lemmings out there creating them it could be said that in general does reflect society...

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:04 am

Adv1sor wrote:If popular music reflects the general tempo of life

Then there's something in the drinking water. How else do you explain mass auditory halluncinations?

requiett · Post by **requiett** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:07 pm

Otohiko wrote:"Tempo of Life"?

He means that gay bar he hits every weekend to dance shirtless with his faggoty ass-buddies.

Saying this topic is redundant would be redundant, so you should be amazed I even took the time to respond to this. I don't really care what you use for your AMVs, as long as it's original on the whole.

guy07 · Post by **guy07** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:43 pm

or at the very least amusing

Tono_Fyr · Post by **Tono_Fyr** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:54 pm

I dance to the rhythm of 23/32nds!!

In all seriousness, I Agree with Kalium. AMVs tend to be a reflection of the editor more than the society, though society's influence is blatant through choice of music.

In terms of music, it does reflect society, but like the AMV reflects the editor, the song reflects the artist. It reflects their influences, their likes, their feelings, their very souls. The pop music and rap now adays reflects the artists: soulless, trite people out for a dollar. Society then becomes a reflection of this, and it stops being just a reflection of the artist, and grows into the larger context of the society at large.

G C D can always been relied upon when all else fails. It's annoying that people say "I listen to what sounds good" when they don't grasp that it's not hard to sound good.

DriftRoot · Post by **DriftRoot** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:40 am

Perhaps the original question is being interpreted too narrowly. Ok, some of us are mostly concerned with making AMVs for our own enjoyment and not to scream our fanboy/fangirl joy from the highest hill, but look at all the overused music around here, not to mention all the overused series *cough*Naruto*cough*. Thousands and thousands and thousands of these AMVs in being dumped onto a-m-v.org says a good deal about our little societal niche.

On the other hand, I'd hate to think that most anime fans are immature, self-centered, undisciplined technology whores with no sense of rhythm.

Adv1sor · Post by **Adv1sor** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:39 am

requiett wrote:
Otohiko wrote:"Tempo of Life"?
He means that gay bar he hits every weekend to dance shirtless with his faggoty ass-buddies.

Hey! That gives me a great idea for a new AMV!

Thanks for stopping by requiett! I'll PM you some pics of myself dancing shirtless at that bar!

Adv1sor · Post by **Adv1sor** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:41 am

Ok, my thanks for the comments.

What I meant to say is that, with music being half the equation, if popular music reflects the current culture do not AMVs using that music do the same?

Maybe some will suggest that the music is less than half the equation?

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