1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:Leaping Lindner wrote:Mr66 wrote:Her publicity agent.
For the amount of press she gets for someone who has no artistic talent or ability,they
do a magnificent job of getting the press to portray her as the greatest musical genius whoever lived.
Don't know if you guys in Adelaide get it so much in the press over there, but over here in Melbourne it's "Our Kylie this" and "Our kylie that". Bloody sick of it.
Ahh yes, the psuedo music intelligentsia speak and haughtily mock the singing talents of a popular music artist and the people who like and appreciate the "pop" song including the different facets and musical crafts that go into composing a tight, lyrical well crafted song in the popular genre
it can't be any good because it is played on top 40 and mature age radio stations. Real music officianados listen to RRR, DDD and JJJ.
Maybe it is: verse chorus verse chorus insturment solo over the verse chord progression repeat chorus et al in the coda and as a rule and there is a music publicity machine behind it, the fact reamins Kylie is survivor (you don't last 20 years in teh music industry if you don't: a) have talent and b) know and recognise good songs.
All the publicity in the world aint going to sustain a musical career if you can't sing and you ain't got talent - Scandal'us anyone, Melissa etc i.e. of teh myriad of teenage singing soap opera stars that try to make it.
Kylie is good at what she does and has a career because she has got talent and does what all good musos do work on it and evolve. Do you really think Nick Cave would want to potentially ruin his reputation by singing with Kylie if she wasn't any good?
My final point is yes it is simple and gues what simple works, some of the great song s of the modern era and indeed through music history are classics because of their simplicity, The Beatles , Roy Orbison etc all amde careers based on simple tight pop songs backed by their own talent. I'm not going to sit and say she is as good as them but that is no different to home modern metal bands follow the formula set down by Black Sabbath and alternative music some say has it influences from cool pop of America and the beach Boys which mixed american folk music with jazz which led to band such as REM and Sound garden etc.
My point is music is varied and comes from many influences and styles. The Origins if the modern Pop song (kylie) are the same as modern alternative music. So don't mock those of us who like it just because it is more - as the title of the genre says - "popular"
I didn't realise I was mocking you personally Tassie. But I will now, as you seem to think it's fine to mock me for being as you put it "the psuedo music intelligentsia".
