I’m talking about music. About 200 years ago we had composers like Mozart and Beethoven, and classical music. I don’t know if you like listening to classical music (you should), but when you listen to Beethoven, for instance, you can feel, in most his songs, his pain, his feelings. You can understand what he was trying to transmit with his music. In Mozart you understand the genius, the child he always was. In every classical composer you understand their feeling just by how their music sounds...
Music evolved and through its evolution it lost a lot, not only technically speaking, but also in how it sounds and how much effort (or not) we have to make to understand what the composer was feeling.
Classical music is orchestral, now we have poetry, or lyrics, associated to the music we hear (we still have classic composers, but lets be honest, how many of us listen to them?). And those tell you the story of that song, and sometimes, most times, they aren't even written by the composer.
Classical music is orchestral, now we have poetry, or lyrics, associated to the music we hear (we still have classic composers, but lets be honest, how many of us listen to them?). And those tell you the story of that song, and sometimes, most times, they aren't even written by the composer.
Well, I love The Beatles, I love Barbra Streisand, I love Daniel Powter and Adele, I also like One Direction.
When The Beatles appeared people said that was not quality music. And nowadays we listen to them and many people say One Direction are not quality music (I'm not going to even mention Justin Bieber and such).
The truth is, technically speaking, The Beatles are very far away from Beethoven or Mozart but today we think they were better (and they were) than One Direction...
So, where are we going? Are we becoming much less demanding? Are we stupider?
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