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| Portrait of Nellie Lutcher, New York, N.Y., 1946/1948 [LOC] |
It takes patience to listen to the storyline; experience to relate to it; exposure to understand it and good taste to appreciate it. Only a contemplative soul can discern the subtlety of instrumentation. It's not in-your-face or shamelessly obvious. The noble can deeply recognise the hard work and character needed to tow the unpopular line to create complex art.
Pop music is like brash sex without foreplay or seduction. It lacks finesse. Elevated music is like a 3-course meal in a deliberately chosen restaurant with mood lighting and vintage wine.
Elevated music calls to your spirit; makes you want to make love to it over & over, plumb its depth and build a lifelong friendship. Popular Hip Hop or R n B sometimes leaves a sour taste in your mouth. Its unoriginality astounds you. Its baseness and disrespect for any and everything surprises you. You wonder how an artiste could take a chorus, repeat it over & over, add a beat and present it as a finished work of art. Sometimes it does a pretty good job of capturing in 4 minutes all the things wrong with a generation - the shallowness; commercialisation and desperation.
I'm beginning to acquire the patience required for elevated music; broadening and stretching my musical palate. I listen to a lot of different genres nowadays, especially Country, Bluegrass and Folk Music. It's been an interesting and exploratory journey. I wonder what music has captured your heart and mind lately? My Twitter handle is @SubomiPlumptre. I'd like to hear from you.
© Subomi Plumptre 2013. All Rights Reserved
3 comments:
I found country and folk about 6years ago and i've been hooked. They just make sense. I particularly like Lee Ann Womack, Carrie Underwood, Kate Voegele, Band Perry, Jason Mraz, Keith Urban, Martina McBride etc. James Morrison and Sara Bareilles do pop but they're good too :)
Forgot to mention Emeli Sande. She does pop too but she's cool
I was smiling all through the read...it reminds me again after not having been here in 3 years and more...why I fell in love with your write up back then.and I am glad you can now listen to country music now.lol.i remember the lecture you gave me in 2009 on country music on country music and how boring they were.i think I personally got tired of defending most of this brats that sing this days. To say most songs this days are shallow will actually be a compliment.i will forever stay with songs that have some musing in them than this dummy of songs sang these days.
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