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CibbuanoMusic culture in a somewhat big nutshell (LINK)
September 14th 2007 03:44
Our contemporary music tree is sixty years old. Starting from the roots up, this is our story and it's consequent genres.
The pop culture wave really started in James Dean's era - the 1950s. This was when the marketing gurus decided there should be such a thing called a "teenager". They needed someone to advertise to, so advertisers created the ideal carefree, thrift spending customer - the teen.
Previously, you went from being a kid to an adult. But commercialisation decided we needed a time to be frivolous. These new fangled "teenagers" were shown as Rebels without a Cause with slicked back hair and leather jackets. Loud music with devilish hip movements was in, (Elvis Presley), slow classics was out, (Frank Sinatra).
Of course, the targeted audience lapped it up - who would knock back permission to be promiscuous and irresponsible?
People grew tired of Elvis, they wanted more sex, more in-your-face. Que the swinging sixties. At the end of that happily naked, flower-power decade The Doors brought in the 70's with a morbid "I'd fuck your mother" attitude.
Stadium rock became the norm. Over the top music was passe. People were once again tired with what they had, so Malcolm McLaren created the Sex Pistols. A band that was purposely under-produced, crass, and violent towards albso-fucking-lutely everyone. The Punk era. Safety pins in cheeks and emotionless sex. People went from "Make love not war" to "Make war in love".
And then it all gets muddled up. Punk was an angry answer to Pop. Gradually, Punk became Pop. In the ever swinging pendulum, Thrash metal became the answer to Hair metal in the shoulder-pad 1980s. Refer to this for more information on that movement.
Emo, I believe, is a retaliation of death metal. It takes the heavy, disaffected sound and then literally applies emotion to it, whereas before the emotions was reduced to"Hate! Hate! Hate!". In heavier metal, (death metal, black metal, grindcore etc.) the lyrics (what most people listen to first) was incoherent. Now, with Emo, lyrics and music is made clear and simple.
Just like people took Punk and turned it into Goth. Now we're (they're) taking the heaviness that Thrash has spurned forth and turning it into fat that everyone can chew on.
It's hard to summarise the movements of the 1990s because we're still recovering from it. It's kind of like staring at a picture until it looses all meaning. You have to have some distance to give a good synthesis.
So until twenty years have passed, that's all folks.
The dirty hips don't lie.
Previously, you went from being a kid to an adult. But commercialisation decided we needed a time to be frivolous. These new fangled "teenagers" were shown as Rebels without a Cause with slicked back hair and leather jackets. Loud music with devilish hip movements was in, (Elvis Presley), slow classics was out, (Frank Sinatra).
Of course, the targeted audience lapped it up - who would knock back permission to be promiscuous and irresponsible?
Jim Morrison
Stadium rock became the norm. Over the top music was passe. People were once again tired with what they had, so Malcolm McLaren created the Sex Pistols. A band that was purposely under-produced, crass, and violent towards albso-fucking-lutely everyone. The Punk era. Safety pins in cheeks and emotionless sex. People went from "Make love not war" to "Make war in love".
Sid Vicious wearing a shirt by Viven Westwood. What marketing?
And then it all gets muddled up. Punk was an angry answer to Pop. Gradually, Punk became Pop. In the ever swinging pendulum, Thrash metal became the answer to Hair metal in the shoulder-pad 1980s. Refer to this for more information on that movement.
Emo, I believe, is a retaliation of death metal. It takes the heavy, disaffected sound and then literally applies emotion to it, whereas before the emotions was reduced to"Hate! Hate! Hate!". In heavier metal, (death metal, black metal, grindcore etc.) the lyrics (what most people listen to first) was incoherent. Now, with Emo, lyrics and music is made clear and simple.
Just like people took Punk and turned it into Goth. Now we're (they're) taking the heaviness that Thrash has spurned forth and turning it into fat that everyone can chew on.
It's hard to summarise the movements of the 1990s because we're still recovering from it. It's kind of like staring at a picture until it looses all meaning. You have to have some distance to give a good synthesis.
So until twenty years have passed, that's all folks.
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