majestikc wrote:
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It's also important to distinguish between music and entertainment, Die Antwoord and Jack Parrow and Weird Al Yankovic are all just entertainers, using music rather than stand up comedy or acting or juggling set-on-fire-dog-turds to amuse people.
All performance is entertainment to some degree. A lot of people go to a rock show for the SHOW, for the costumes and the fireworks and the lights. Indeed they'd not be too happy if that wasn't all there. Even if you go and see shows where those elements are missing or very de-emphasised you're still expecting to be have something that will capture and hold your interest and let you forget about your unpaid bills for a while.
As soon as people grow tired of what they have to offer those people will move on to the next thing, I'm pretty sure in 20 years time the flavour of the day RnB singer isn't going to be doing a rap cover of one of Jack Parrow's "tunes" like they do with The Police or Puff Diddly did with Led Zeppelin's Kashmir (I think he also did a cover using Every Breath You Take).
Well rap artists aren't going to make interesting records sampling other rap songs.
Once Die Antword have sang about all "die fokkers" and semen and farting and raping nuns they can and a music video of yo-landie taking a shit, then what, they'll have nothing left to offer and quickly grow stale.
Sensationalism I believe it's called.
'Twas ever thus. It's just that one generation's "sensational" tends to be the next generation's "meh". Which leads me to imagining things I'd much rather not imagine. There was a time when Elvis Presley was a skandaal. When he made it onto American TV the camera crews were told to keep the shots close so that the nation would not see what hips were doing and thus sensitivities and morals would be spared the onslaught.
