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Posted: June 02 2012 at 14:25
Slartibartfast wrote:
Just curious, who amongst our long time prog fans hasn't gone through a period where you looked down on pop after becoming a prog fan?
Ive gone on to appreciate pop more after becoming a prog fan when I was 17. I like some pop when I was 10-12 years old, but that's cause I was so young and not exposed to much music (besides classical).
Joined: July 27 2010
Location: Tel Aviv
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Posted: June 02 2012 at 14:11
Dean wrote:
I wish some people would think these ideas through before dumping them on us like they've had some road to Damascus epiphany that they really need to share.
If creating a Pop Star was easy we'd all be doing it - to hell with artistic integrity, bring on the champagne and caviar, limos and easy action - dammit I want a big house in the country and a fleet of Italian supercars to drive to Domino's for a take away pizza - if writing a 4-minute, 4-chord wonder is that easy then let's do it now - come on guys, we've got the talent and I'm sure we can find some leggy bimbo to front the band - our 90% split between us would still be a tidy sum of cash.
and as usual Dean wins the discussion.
darkshade wrote:
Well there was some meaningful discussion besides "Dream Theater is awful. /thread"
well yeah but it was all what is pop and what pop is bad and is all pop bad and stuff like thatz.
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Joined: May 13 2007
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Posted: June 02 2012 at 14:00
I wish some people would think these ideas through before dumping them on us like they've had some road to Damascus epiphany that they really need to share.
If creating a Pop Star was easy we'd all be doing it - to hell with artistic integrity, bring on the champagne and caviar, limos and easy action - dammit I want a big house in the country and a fleet of Italian supercars to drive to Domino's for a take away pizza - if writing a 4-minute, 4-chord wonder is that easy then let's do it now - come on guys, we've got the talent and I'm sure we can find some leggy bimbo to front the band - our 90% split between us would still be a tidy sum of cash.
Joined: February 10 2010
Location: Barcelona Spain
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Posted: June 02 2012 at 11:47
I despise autotune and all of this too, but I guess that some people might argue that guys like Meshuggah's Jens Kidman also use effects to make his growls sound "growlier" (or whatever they should sound like), or that some metal guitarists effects can be partly used to mask minor playing mistakes or to make some rather trivial playing sound spectacular.
I myself play guitar and I know by experience that when you play with high-end gear and sophisticated effects it's so much easier to play and give an impressive sound, and small mistakes become unnoticeable.
Isn't it a bit like what auto-tune does for vocalists?
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