Madonna’s Celebration or Degradation?
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I don’t know. Do you? I mean, what has happened to pop music over this decade coming to a close? Has the digitization of music completely altered the listening experience permanently, both in how we perceive celebrities and consume music - and how has that effectively filtered into the overall quality and catchiness of songwriting, for instance? Is singling out yet another greatest hits package by Madonna even worth its blog weight anymore? Even within the vestiges of its retro-packaging does one buy exclusively based on image in these days of the great recession? Alive and well are the slickest, most over-produced recordings ever, but how valid is the lyric, the musicianship, the message? My guess is that cashing in on the past right now is not at all fashionable, so I’ll just continue waiting to be justified (and ancient).
Tags: Celebration, Madonna, The Slant
October 28th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
the “fame spectrum” has broadened. and, the idea of a generation has also evolved. the tides and currents of what things mean to different people is a complex pulse to try to keep a finger on. a multi-faceted pulse. toss into the mix the globalization that’s going on, and i think trying to figure out what’s happening is sort of incomprehensible at the moment.
all that said, even though i feel like i’m missing out on more than ever before, and also failing to understand a lot of what i’m catching, i think it’s getting better all the time.