David talks about the happenings in music-world.
The music industry – a vast realm with more castles than Germany, bigger armies than China and better tunes than whatever afterlife you’ve been promised. Mapping the topography and charting the tides of change in pop music is a scholarly discipline in itself. Music everybody. Music – a world unto itself.
It is with that sentiment that when something happens to change the landscape it can have drastic repercussions, like when Take That split up in the nineties and many people were left in tears. However by this point in time Take That have had more reunions than Cradle of Filth has had ex-band members so the initial reaction now seems a little O.T.T.
Last month saw Varg Vikernes of Thulean Perspective fame give up the ghost of Burzum and while I wasn’t at Take That levels of grief I was still a bit saddened to hear of his decision to move on. I understand that his opinions, thoughts and theories irk some people but at least he puts effort into expressing them civilly. Unlike most of the brain dead cattle that prattle on about good and bad, and never quite settling down to know one from the other.
Burzum was excellent black metal cum neo folk; a tale about discovery and an exploration of thoughts and ideas many people feel too violently about to express artistically. And is now even more the stuff of legends.
In other quote Atmospheric Black Metal unquote news. Two popular YouTube channels were pulled for violating YouTube policies after downright ignoring some of the artists they were promoting. I use promoting there loosely as that would imply the artists had some agency over how their work was shared. You see this. This is why people do not respect DJs.
It begs a question though: is sharing unsolicited work indicative of a greater psychological barrier. Are active members of the Internets’ music community prioritizing exposure over the welfare of artists and will the WHO (World Health Organisation) recognize Music Sharing Disorder as a threat to the sanctity of modern families. You might think that extreme but I think being jealous at the level of engagement games offer is stupid– and that got its own title.
Now sharing music that you love with your neighbors (in a total hypo-christian sense) is a beautiful thing to do but I will say that labeling is a strong affliction that sometimes just does not accurately represent the body of work an artist does throughout their career. Atmospheric Black Metal is a pretentious genre title that had to be shut down because it is almost as dumb as Depressive Suicidal Black Metal. Like who okayed that? Who thought that that was a smart thing to describe and sell someones work.
Petty genre title inequities aside there are a million of excuses to why some people think it is okay to present other peoples’ work on a public forum and with a bit of perspective it can be used towards an artists advantage. But at its root the indiscretion surrounding the YouTube channels is about consent. Consent is something you should opt in to and not have to fight to get out of as that, in principle, is an entirely different action. And when I venture into the realm of music the only blurred lines I want to see are from headbanging too much.
