14/12/2010
disillusion
i am having a hard time with music
sure i still love music. that's the love of my life. i can't live without it whether i'm sad or happy.
but these past couple of years i have been finding it hard to find a band i love for more than one song or one album and want to follow them around, going to most of their gigs.
now if i go to a gig it is by curiosity. not because i found an album fantastic and want to see how they are gonna transform it on a stage.
there has been way too many shitty "indie" bands. it is all too overwhelming trying to find the good from the bad. every two weeks, the album of the decade, the new phenomenon, the best band ever. give my ears a break.
so i don't really have new music on my mp3 player. the latest album i bought was from yann tiersen. a guy i have been following for a decade.
i don't know when i will fall in love with a band again.
désillusion
j'ai du mal avec la musique en ce moment
bien sur j'adore toujours la musique. c'est l'amour de ma vie. je ne peux pas vivre sans, que je sois heureuse ou malheureuse.
mais ces dernières années j'ai eu du mal a trouver un groupe que j'aime pour plus d'une chanson ou d'un album et que je veux suivre, en allant a la plupart de leurs concerts.
maintenant si je vais a un concert c'est par curiosité. pas parce que je trouve un album fantastique et que je veux voir comment ils le transformeront sur scène.
il y a beaucoup trop de groupes "indés" de merde. c'est beaucoup trop étouffant d'essayer de séparer le bon du mauvais. toutes les deux semaines, l'album de la décennie, le nouveau phénomène, le meilleur groupe du moment. donnez un temps de répit à mes oreilles.
donc je n'ai pas vraiment de nouvelle musique sur mon lecteur mp3. le dernier album que j'ai acheté etait celui de yann tiersen. quelqu'un que je suis depuis une dizaine d'années.
je ne sais pas quand je retomberai amoureuse d'un groupe.
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Our minds must be connected, because I've been telling myself exactly this over the past couple of months!
I've been trying to make a top 10 of my favorite records of 2010 at the moment, and I just can't. Janelle Monae's LP is the only one that's really fun and somewhat original. And last year, I didn't have favorite albums either.
I just don't agree with music critics anymore, seems like they're all 22 year-olds who've never listened to anything but indie rock from the 80s onwards. I actually knew a guy in journalism school who said "I never listen to any music that was made before punk" - nevermind that "punk rock" was invented way before 1977...
You know sometimes I think, is there a time when you've listened to too much music (or seen too many movies) that it kind of ruins your enjoyment? Because nothing seems new or exciting to me anymore, and I wish I could go back to those years as a teenager when I was only finding out about bands.
Having said that, as far as music is concerned, I think for me the point is there are very few true "rock stars" around. I mean, what's the fun in falling in love with Vampire Weekend? They're pretentious gits who dress like your neighbour and think they're cool when Paul Simon did the same kind of music they do back in 1986... Plus most of those guys have grating voices and can't actually play a tune anyway.
Anyway, end of rant. Or is it just that we're getting old? ;)
Écrit par : Emilie | 16/12/2010
it can't be because we are old. because i know older people than me that are still exciting by all those new bands coming up every week. i think i'm just doing an overdose of music media...
Écrit par : Edith | 18/12/2010
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