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Good God.
I nearly had a seizure after reading that. And I'm not even joking. My jaw dropped, eyes widened, I threw my hands in the air, lost control of them and started shaking them, and finally screamed "WHAT?!"
My heart pounded out of shock at the sheer stupidity of that statement as I digested it, reading the rest of this thread.
I'm still full of raw emotion from reading it in fact.
That has got to be the dumbest, most insulting statement pertaining to music that I have ever read in my entire life.
You want to know why she perceives pop music as being so hard to write? I'll tell you why. It's because there is no creativity involved in it. Zero. Zilch. Nada. And I'm serious when I say that's hard to write, because it really is difficult to come up with something new that sounds just like everything else.
HOWEVER, she obviously (and, what a shocker here) has never written any "artistic" music and certainly hasn't written any successful "artistic" music. Creation is much harder than imitation. In fact, it's possible to be creatively imitative - it was done for centuries in music, especially during the middle ages.
If/when I listen to Britney Spears I hear a voice that reminds me of a hot girl whom I wouldn't mind seeing naked and I hear catchy beats that are just like every other pop song that do little more than provide a nice background to other things I happen to be doing. I feel little more emotion from the music beyond the general catchiness of the beat.
When I listen to "boring artistic" music such as Dvorak, or Chopin, or Beethoven, I feel EMOTION. I can be calmed and suddenly jarred to life at the will of the composer through "boring artistic" music.
I'd like to see Britney Spears even ATTEMPT to do that.
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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling
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