I think the thing that most bothers me about this decade is... the fact that people will accept anything if it's free. Or offered easily. That people will pay to poison themselves and post pictures of their poisoned faces on Facebook but that they wont pay for a record. The dumbing down of the gatekeepers. The increasing compulsion to give people what they want as quickly as possible. The loss of delay of gratification.
I'm not nailing this.
This morning, driving to work, radio 5Live - asking British Olympians what music they like to listen to in order to 'get pumped up to compete', and one athlete said "my taste in music is pretty eclectic, from Supertramp to Coldplay" and I swore lots and said nasty things about not wanting to know about what music people who don't care about music listen to. The fact that... everyone's opinion is taken as valid now, seemingly, even if there's no experience or thought as its basis.
That dynamic range compression thing irritates too but really that's just a symptom. The 'music all the time, everywhere' thing is part of it. Beamed directly into your cerebellum, bypassing your feelings.
Can I say "The Lex & Geir" or is that bad form?
-- Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 12:09 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― and what, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:27 (sixteen years ago)
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"The fact that people will accept anything if it's free. Or offered easily. That people will pay to poison themselves and post pictures of their poisoned faces on Facebook but that they wont pay for a record. The dumbing down of the gatekeepers. The increasing compulsion to give people what they want as quickly as possible. The loss of delay of gratification."
― and what, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago)
All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
― omar little, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago)
I would think Olympians, who train for months/years, may know something about delay of gratification. Maybe even more then a music writer.
― bnw, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago)