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Art connects people together. When I hear the end of
J'nuh and about 50 Jeremy's come in together, harmonizing, I have felt this
way. When there is that eerie feedback and then the drums come in at the
beginning of HIFTBSO, I have felt that way. Even when I watch Dan bang out
the J'nuh part of J'nuh on stage, almost hurting himself in the process, but
with that sort of sickly smile on his face, I have felt that way.
And I used to hate this shit. I mean, everyone goes
through different musical phrases, I mean, I remember listening to Weird Al as a
kid, and really really liking it, cause it was goofy and kid-like and just
fun. It's not (that) funny anymore, not because he has changed, but
because I have, the way I look at the world has changed. I mean, the music
creates a way of looking at things, and if you dig it, you dig it because it's
saying something that you inherently know.
Think about the Beatles (if you're groaning, groan on dear
friend). One of the reasons that they had such staying power is that they
were able to shift from the black and white world of Hard Day's Night to the
colorful world of Sgt. Pepper's. They grew with the generation that was
listening to them, moving from goofy pop songs about love, to goofy sitar songs
about love. They're singing about the exact same thing, but with a
different take on it each time.
The scary thing though, is that it's not always such a give
and take relationship, N'Sync makes music inspired by a society of 12 or 13 year
old kids. This gives us bad music. And somehow, Ian MacKay's (sp?)
music has created sXe societies in certain places (and I'm not saying he's down
for this at all) that think because of the anger of the music, with the
combinatrion of ideas, allows them to create a violent society, where they can
carve X's into some random smoker's back, like it's a war or
something.
Any-hoo though, that's my 2 big ones. Feel free to write
me--like all sophists, I enjoy the occassional soiree of emails.
-devin.
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