Culture lacks...Music and film culture, I mean. Because for the rest, I am quite happy.
Why do I feel these lacks?
Concerning the music, I reckon being a bit close-minded. As a kid, with teenagers big brother and sister, I listened to their music, followed their style. They flit from danse music in the 90 to heavy metal (I know chain is stange), and then to reggae and ragga. But I never really liked what I was listening to, especially reggae and ragga. I felt from age 18 that I didn’t really have my own tastes. Today, I “take music easy”. I mean, I am not one of those who spent ages to discover new artists. This time spending is not one of my priority.I discover music thanks to what my friends show me, and ... thanks to the radio. I will go back over commercial music. At the moment, I tell you that in order to better understand when I would talk about an artist or a song I appreciate and which inspire my quill.
Cinema. I like it but once again, it is not one of my time spending priorities. As I haven’t been used to often go to the cinama as a child, through lack of money, I have never had a keen interest for it. However I love watching a great film or criticizing a rubbishy one but I lack some references. Questions such as “Have you seen the film..” to which I too often answer “no” exasperate me. Watching more films is one of my “target” in the future and I won’t hesitate to talk about my discoveries here.
PS: France Culture is a French radio. But I don’t listen to it, it’s a bit boring at the moment, aged 23.
2 comments:
Awaken the inner geek!
Find a niche you like, and explore it... I thinks it makes for an interesting journey.
Don’t rely on other people telling what is good. Most people just listen to what is popular. And no, musical beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. My humble opinion and maybe slightly harsh but most modern day music is tripe! The obsession with image and not musical content is sickening.
Yes everyone loves Coldplay, Beyonce, JT, Lady gaga and oh yeah the Black Eyed Peas or some other Simon-Cowell crated flavour of the month...zzzzzzzz. Don’t wait for things to be thrown at you.
Explore my mate... I recommend finding one or two artists or movie directors that you like and delve into their genre and other musicians that fit into the same category.. take it from there.
Hey thank you for this good idea:
"finding one or two artists or movie directors that you like and delve into their genre and other musicians that fit into the same category"
It's a good technique, I was wondering how going discovering music because there are so much different things and styles: now I know! Thanks, I will tell in this blog what I will learn.
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