We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who comes on at five: she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It’s interesting when people die - give us dirty laundry.
Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet? You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet. Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry.
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The next generation - our children - learn by social conditioning and increasingly by “mass media”. No single advert or Disney film can be blamed for inadvertently or intentionally instilling subconscious stereotypes in us and colouring our lives.
However, anyone who becomes high profile has a sort of responsibility to think about how they might be affecting the lives of others in ways that we usually don’t care about. It’s important to be honest sometimes.
People will go to amazing lengths to protect their dream world. Why not just stop generating it?
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This was originally a 600-word post but I think I’ve narrowed it down.
1. Life is pointless, but because of this we can create meaning and define ourselves in some (non-psychological) sense.
2. Even if God existed, you wouldn’t have to do what he told you anyway. He’s just another level up - no matter how powerful he is, HIS life is just as freeform and pointless too.
Lulz.
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People raised on it think pop-rock is rock. Give them a flat degree chord and they’ll vomit.
It’s characterised by the dehumanisation of music. Looping. De-emphasis of progression. Melody as an afterthought. It always goes rhythm => chords => melody - not necessarily bad in itself, but there is no thought put in at any of these steps. It attempts to slavishy obey key, save for clumsy shifts up a tone or a semitone or accidentally setting all chords major on its computer. When catchiness is achieved, and it rarely is, it’s regarded as the ultimate end of the music’s existence.
Instead artificial catchiness is created by repetition of stupid but simple hooks until they get “stuck in your head”. Good pop writers are forced to also write terrible music in order to stay ahead in a chart dominated by machines.
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