Actually, I find a lot of Anime (Japanese cartoon) music to be very very
good. The Samurai Champloo is a great OST, but there are others as well.
A lot of the animes do use real orchestras for music as well, and most
of the soundtracks are symphonic in nature. Compare that with a lot of
the American ones......Actually, the worst example would be the anime
One Piece, which has some excellent music in the Japanese version. The
American version was heavily edited (content, etc) and they dumped
almost all the music from it. It's a shame.........
As for other pop music, there are some good artists out there. A number
of my students are Maroon 5 freaks, and their songs are interesting and
very melodic compared to groups like Green Day........
Robert Patterson wrote:
Is this thread just about rap bashing? I don't seek it out, but some
of what finds me I find very compelling. For example, I thoroughly
enjoy the opening theme of "Samurai Champloo". When those isolated
little piano notes come in near the end, it gives me a little shiver.
As far as gangsta lyrics go, what choice did we give our children?
Children invariably seek out the thing that will most shock their
elders. We boomers decided we would be unshockable, so we left our
children no choice but to embrace tattoos, body piercings, cigarettes,
and gangsta lyrics. I remember as a child shocking my elders with the
lyrics from "Hair". We are the ones who upped the ante, but I'm not
saying I would do anything differently in hindsight.
A few years ago I went on a tour with a couple of 16 year-olds. They
decided to see if they could shock me with the stuff on their music
player. They did, but I think I kept my cool. I suppose this too shall
pass. It is easy for me to say, since in real life I'm not an actual
parent.
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