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[Ava Mendoza]

most of the people i encounter who dislike
experimental/improvised/new/weird music give something along the lines
of "it's too intellectual" or "it doesn't have any heart" as their
argument against it. which mystifies me. i think people do like to
think of themselves as emotional or intuitive, but they mainly like a
sort of very concrete or identifiable emotion--Happy, Sad etc--whereas
more abstract or nebulous emotion is the thing that's frightening.


On 10/12/07, David Slusser <slusser at pixar.com> wrote:
> I agree, and it also seems related to the attitude
> that music is free now. Somehow, I hesitate to
> mock the iArtists, though, since most of us are
> self-appointed artists as well.  (Not you folks
> that had a title conferred on you.)
>
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:
> > Yeah, I'd agree with this. I had a number of discussions a few years
> > with folks who were cashing in on the dot com boom, and saying
> > "there's all this dough floating around, but no ones becoming some
> > big art patron with their new-found cash," to which those who were
> > cashing in replied: "Of course not, all the dot com-ers think they're
> > artists themselves."  It's just continued with the iGeneration;
> > everyone's an artist (and an Xtreme one at that. . .)
> >
> > On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
> >
> >> I'm sorry, I'm not buying it ... after weeks of having to look at
> >> yahoo ads
> >> for HP photo paper suggesting that its users could "get creative
> >> with Gwen
> >> Stefani," I think most normal people want to think of themselves as
> >> creative, or aspire to some form of creativity. Isn't that the
> >> "lesson" of
> >> "Web 2.0"?
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