Sad day for music

[Renfield]

what i don't respect is the lack of knowledge about music that stars like her can get away with. Composers train and study for years just to learn "enough" to be succesfull. People like her get away with very little and make more money than you can ever dream of. So people like her don't get my respect (even if i did like pop/commercial music) compared to someone who is really knowledgeable, like Pierre Boulez.
it's ok to enjoy something simple and silly like that, but there's just no respect for anything that's complex.... i guess i'd be more succesfull if i forgot all the "extra" stuff i learned about music and join some gaya** band and strummed a chord or two for them cuz it's "cool" (though i'd die of boredom).
either way, the world's totally messed up...

Or maybe the world includes a variety of different people, and thus a variety of different tastes... If someone tried really hard and, after many years of careful study and practice, succeeded in emulating the sound of a dog barking, it wouldn't please me aesthetically more than "Girlfriend" did.

Understanding that certain pursuits require a certain type of rigorous and systematic effort to pursue successfuly is all nice and fair; but assuming that anything good must have years of practice behind it is a huge logical leap. Avril has her way, and Pierre Boulez has his: fair enough?

Haffner: Yeah, it's a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.

[greg]

Avril has her way, and Pierre Boulez has his: fair enough?

yeah, and she has to do much less study.

but i won't worry about it anyways, there's no way to change the tastes of the whole world.

[mahlertitan]

yeah, and she has to do much less study.

but i won't worry about it anyways, there's no way to change the tastes of the whole world.

Avril has her qualities, and Boulez has his, i agree with Renfield on that one. For instance, Avril's ability to appeal to a wider audience obviously is not something that Boulez can ever manage to have.

[greg]

Avril has her qualities, and Boulez has his, i agree with Renfield on that one. For instance, Avril's ability to appeal to a wider audience obviously is not something that Boulez can ever manage to have.

nope, cuz he's too old

[mahlertitan]

nope, cuz he's too old

i doubt that a young Boulez would've make much of a difference, unless he chose to play the bass guitar instead...

[greg]

i doubt that a young Boulez would've make much of a difference, unless he chose to play the bass guitar instead...

bass guitar?.....
nah, i think he'd have been succesful as a French hip hop artist