conny wrote:Any Finnish guys here?
Yeah - smashing each others back with beech (?) twigs!
Pouring beer on the hot stones so the foggy air smells like a bakery - that's life
i'm finnish and prefer my sauna without any extra decoration - just some water to pour into the stones and some good company... and the latter is optional
elemental wrote:mainstream is bullshit now because it is all about MONEY and MARKETING, not music. There was a time when it was still about music. Not anymore.
IMO pop music has always been part gimmicks, teen idols and marketing - the whole business side of things is just even more shameless nowadays and no doubt it makes people sick, made me too.
but there IS still music with soul on the mainstream charts, if you're saying it sucks you're missing something. even if you don't like artists like coldplay, franz ferdinand, white stripes, or gorillaz for example, i definitely wouldn't call them bullshit and i'd even go as far as to say that there's at least some very sincere and soulful music on the charts most of the time. hell, even neptunes who seem to be responsible for lots of the big hits nowadays make groovy stuff (whether you like or hate "drop it like it's hot") and seem to know and love music judging by their solo output as N.E.R.D...
with chart hits you just have to stay inside a more limiting set of rules on what a song should be like. creating something cool and unique inside those frames is no less a feat than making a 15 minute track of bleepy noises that actually manages to be interesting
