Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 29 Jan 2006, at 7:41 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
Actually, the majority of indie rock fans roughly my age (let's say
21-40) are all in favor of timbrallly, structurally, lyrically
sophisticated music that challenges them as listeners. They don't
want simplicity or sugarcoated accessibility or stereotypically
pretty sounds, and they certainly don't want the vapid notions of
"timeless beauty" or "sublime relaxation" that the traditional
classical marketing campaign tends to emphasize.
From discussions I've had mith my nieces and nephews and their
contemporaries, most of the music fans now want the same thing they
wanted 50 years ago - something they could dance to. The percentage
that actually gives a damn about the musicality of the piece are few
and far between.
For most people, music is background sound, or just a beat.
Again, this does not at all describe the demographic I was talking
about at all. (Not everyone 21-40 is an indie rock fan.) Go check out
some indie rock blogs, or the forums on indie band sites. I can
guarantee you that the people who are buying records by Clap Your Hands
Say Yeah or Vashti Bunyan or Animal Collective or Wolf Parade or Sufjan
Stevens or the Decembrists are not "looking for something they can
dance to."
My bet is that the percentage of the entire population which are the
sort of indie-rock fans Darcy describes is probably about the same
percentage of the entire population represented by classical music fans
who attend orchestra concerts.
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