that's the whole point. who cares with being down with a culture or not. who CARES! i have a great cd that is supposedly traditional south american indian music, but it's actually made by music professors from sao paolo. it's great, i like it, i could care less about how real they are etc. where do you draw the line on these judgement calls of realness anyways, and does it ever have positive effects? i mean what is the point? did chi people get all protective when detroit did their take on house? probably some did. i don't have time for that sort of nonsense. music is meant to bleed all over the place, it's in its nature, it's what it do. trace a style back and you can keep tracing it all the way back to africa. you don't have to like the new permutations, but insisting that new permutations are wrong is just assanine imo. i don't care if indie rockers start doing some retarded take on techno and get famous for it, go for it, i won't enjoy it and i'll talk sh*t on it and give it a stupid name, but it has as much a right to exist as anything else. this is all art 101 if you ask me, but tmo is acting like it's a sport of keepin it real. some of the best music of all time is made by ultra reclusive socially retarded people who could care less about being down with a scene or culture, they just make music. or maybe they're gregarious a-holes, who knows. i don't know spank rock and i don't know their motivations or personalities and i don't presume to know. i keep hearing tom assert that they are fronting on bmore club, but i think their name is supposed to be a concept in itself, it's spank rock. yes, it's got a rock attitude. it's not bmore club per se, it's in the name for godsakes
-----Original Message----- >From: /0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jun 27, 2007 8:01 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: (313) Justice > >y0y0y0y0y0y0y0y00y00y0yy0y0y0y0y0yyyy0y0yy00y0y00y0y0y0y0y0y00y0y0y0y0y0yy0, > >i dont see why this even matters anyways, either music is good or it isnt. > >tom has the for-real-o-meter though, for real. G. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rob G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:47 PM >Subject: Re: (313) Justice > > >> >you can add your own influence to something else. hiphop culture is >>>all over the globe now, and it has been mutated and added on to. i >>>personally think all of this stuff sucks, but at least it is being >>>done by people who live that culture as best as it is done in their >>>country. spank rock and t&a live down the street, theyre spectators to >>>a culture they then represent. >> >>>it wouldnt matter if they were purple if they were down with the >>>culture. but theyre not so it doesnt matter. >> >> so how are they *not* down with the culture? What would they be doing >> differently if they were down with the culture? >> >> I always always got the impression from the early hollertronix/the >> rub/moneystudies/et all that their whole vibe was "we're not you guys, but >> we're *down* with what you are doing" (with respect to the baltimore >> producers and such). >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search >> that gives answers, not web links. >> http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC >
