>its not about straight up stealing a sound, its about getting popular >with a watered down version of something that isnt even his to water >down. theyre the elvises of club music.
that's all cultural politics, which concerns me, but it's beside the fact of whether the music is good or not, and while i can't say it doesn't affect my opinion of music if i know the backstory etc, i don't think it should. elvis was just trying to make some music he loved, he wasn't trying to steal black music, and he didn't sound just like black music. he can't help it that white america loved his music, what was he supposed to do, say "thanks anyway, but keep your money i'd rather be a starving artist"? or should he have just stuck to making white music and minded his place? that's a real narrow view and we wouldn't have a lot of great musical styles if people did that. if everybody thought like that, people would have dismissed techno (ahem) as just some black guys trying to sound like german guys. or how about convextion, he's not black, and he's not from detroit so....? if you're going to get all political about music, don't blame the artists, blame society. i didn't even know ayres was white and i think it has f*ckall to do with whether he's a good dj or not, nor do i think the fact that he's popular while the "original" guys aren't has anything to do with how his music sounds. besides, like rob g says, spank and ayres etc have their own sound, they're not just imitators. >at least pubah's was still getting play from real ghetto and electro >deejays in detroit. ive never seen or heard of one of the real bmore >deejays dropping spankrock tunes. who cares? music is what it is, i don't care who's playing it or how much street cred it has if i really like it. if i don't like it i am more likely to focus on all these things you are, but it's nonsense really, nothing to do with the actual aesthetics of music. i don't like el-p because i don't like his voice or his flow, not because he's white and didn't grow up in bed-stuy and doesn't get played by [blank]
