The CFC Confessions Thread

Ajidica said:
What if the 15 women spent their time playing Elder Scrolls games with you and talking about the interesting ways British/English monarchs met their ends?
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Heheh. I think I might be able to stretch to three or four, so then we could get a decent RPG group going. :)
 
Hygro said:
From a production standpoint they are pretty incredible. The level of sophistication put into what sounds to the casual listener like a 4 instrument piece can be over 120 instruments in a track with 40 playing at once. The way the sounds are created and placed in the stereo field, the way they get the most punch out of the least room (pop producers and mixing engineers are like Bruce Lee with the 1-inch punch), it's all amazing in quality.

It's also fun to see how underground music feeds into pop music which feeds back into underground music. There's a ton of interplay though those who love underground music don't like to admit it.

Additionally pop songs are culturally anchoring. They mark time and experiences in life, in a shared way.
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I just find too much of it to watered down and similar, though. I could listen to a CD from a quality non-pop artist and distinguish each song from the next through how much individuality is in each piece. I find a pattern in most pop artists that simply find a style that made them successful and then attempt to repeat it in the rest of their music. Pop artists rarely experiment with odd time signatures, long instrumental passages, or extended lengths past 5:30, characteristics that appeal to me in most of the music I listen to.

Well, I even know that's a rather inaccurate generalization for the entire industry, but it's just my honest opinion for most of it.

And as far as being culturally anchoring, I can't really make a statement of how much culture really even means anything to me in a consumerist society.
 
Floating Pants said:
I just find too much of it to watered down and similar, though. I could listen to a CD from a quality non-pop artist and distinguish each song from the next through how much individuality is in each piece. I find a pattern in most pop artists that simply find a style that made them successful and then attempt to repeat it in the rest of their music. Pop artists rarely experiment with odd time signatures, long instrumental passages, or extended lengths past 5:30, characteristics that appeal to me in most of the music I listen to.

Well, I even know that's a rather inaccurate generalization for the entire industry, but it's just my honest opinion for most of it.

And as far as being culturally anchoring, I can't really make a statement of how much culture really even means anything to me in a consumerist society.
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A Rihanna song is not Rihanna's song. A Britney song is not Britney's song. On some Levels even supposed super-producers David Guetta or Avicii songs are not their songs as we think of them. For example, a ton of the recent biggest hits of those four artists were done by one up and coming french dance music producer whose name eludes me. He had ten years of extensive training and practice before Guetta noticed him playing some groovy underground tracks in Ibiza (so the legend goes, a believable one b/c he's not famous enough to need a tall tale to carry him).

It's folly to think of pop artists and music in the same way we think of more underground material, or frontperson driven music. The way people celebrate pop artists is like if in Beethoven's time we ignored Beethoven and celebrated each individual instrumentalists as different unrelated stars. They're all playing one symphony. The symphony just happens to be divided into like 200 different songs in the chronogenre.

Switching directions a bit, the creativity is not in changing time signatures or drawing out the music as long as possible to really explore a motif in one track. Though I respect that a lot, and think the best songs are the ones that get away with being the longest, the creativity comes in as "how much can we bend and break the rules, how much can we innovate, and still be a #1 hit and be commercially successful if we fail that benchmark?" It takes some real artistic genius to do it.

What constitutes pop today would be some of the most underground songs from 2002. The non-rap Nicki Minaj songs are crazy. It's amazing what goes into them. They can seem simple but they are anything but.

But within pop of any given period, the joy of the music comes from two places. Either a solid groove and elegant production with sing along lyrics that are immediately relatable gets you going, or you can appreciate the incredible amount of nuance and advanced musical skill that gets hidden behind, or embedded in plain sight, the vehicle of its genre.
 
Most of my posts are done either under the influence of weed or alcohol (for the last year or so)
 
I do crazy stuff like that all the time. I've tried to convince myself that dying would be the best option just to see if I could do it(I wasn't particularly depressed). I've also tried to turn myself gay a few times just out of curiosity.
 
So being gay IS a choice.

Dammit, that tongue-in-cheekness is gonna be the death of this thread isn't it? Yet I'm still going to post it.
 
I confess that I only visit this forum to read the rant thread every few weeks when I've had a 'bad' day.
 
GhostWriter16 said:
Drunk posting should be infractable. Drunk driving is criminal yet sometimes hurts nobody, but drunken posting always hurts anyone who has to read it:mischief:
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Dude. Drunken/generally inebriated posting is awesome.
 
If you're drunk posting, that means you're either drinking alone or you're on the computer with friends. Neither one of those things is impressive.
 
I drink alone. I really don't see being in the mood for a whiskey sour and therefore mixing one and having it as any different than being in the mood for a glass of milk and therefore pouring it and drinking it.
 
useless said:
Most of my posts are done either under the influence of weed or alcohol (for the last year or so)
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Posts: 7,443


You have a problem
 
Dachs said:
If you're drunk posting, that means you're either drinking alone or you're on the computer with friends. Neither one of those things is impressive.
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Or drinking enough to still be feeling it after a party.
 
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