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Quote of the Day: Value-Swoon Submitted by administrator on Sat, 2008-04-26 02:38.
"I often find it interesting that many 'grow to like' this music [rap and metal]. Having been subjected to it in high school, college, on the radio, etc., my consciousness simply cannot take it anymore, even music I once may have liked/endured. My experience has been diametrically opposite—I have grown to hate it as I have become happier and happier. My consciousness simply does not want a 'good pounding,' but rather to be uplifted and inspired: the desire and need for those 'value experiences' that Rand describes in 'Our Value Deprivation.'" —Michael Moeller, Music of the Gods thread
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Magnificent, Callum
Remind me to remind you to marry me when you grow up.
Linz
One of the most distinctions between modern metal, rock, rap etc and Piaf's "sad" songs, is that in Piaf's "sad" songs, such as L'hymn a L'armour (which is probably also her best sung song). In L'hymn a L'armour, she recognizes, that through hard times, there is a capacity for love, joy and life. Today's popular songs, by contrast, don't enshrine such values -they simply say that no enjoyment of life is possible, and that all that's possible is some unhuman, paranoid, drooling-beast state of reality.
And it's that distinction of life vs. death which has seen modern philosophy go so far down hill recently. Piaf was arguably the last throwback to the age of enlightenment, the age of life.
"Socialism may be dead, but its corpse is still rotting up the place." -Ayn Rand
Callum
I loved your going to bat for Piaf. Don't ever lose what she imparts!
So do I
Talk about the music of sadness and deprivation!
"Socialism may be dead, but its corpse is still rotting up the place." -Ayn Rand
Beautifully put...
as usual Michael.
I feel exactly the same way.