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Posted by: AgentCOP1
Posted by: DaViDlIkEsPiE2
Posted by: AgentCOP1
Posted by: DaViDlIkEsPiE2
Posted by: AgentCOP1
I think Recon got it on the nail. Acoustic is in my opinion a lot harder to make and takes tons more talent to make a true masterpiece. For some reason OP, you think that electronic music takes more understanding of musical theory, and I think that's just laughable. Yes, it does take a lot, but to manipulate say a guitar or piano where you can literally have 5-10 things going on at the same time and think of each individual thing AT the same time takes immeasurable talent and hard work. Plus, electronic music takes away the human aspect of music since all of the sound is manifested by a computer. You can't really put your heart, soul and emotion into it as you can acoustic. It's almost superficial and cold. I have experience with both electronic and acoustic song writing, and although I do enjoy electronic music, it just sometimes seems too cold and fake for me to enjoy. Also, in a lot of electronic music, there aren't very many lyrics, and the lyrics that are in it are just simple words or phrases. It's not saying anything.
The best examples of where acoustic does infinitely better in lyrics is "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkle, and "Hotel California" by The Eagles. If you really take the time to dissect what they're saying in those songs, it really hits you deep and makes you think. With electronic, there's hardly any thinking involved. It's just mindless listening. It's not evoking thought.
There are just an infinite number of things I could go over why acoustic is better, but it would take too much time. so this song, almost fully electronically made save for the original vocals, doesn't have any meaning, or structured lyrics?
You know, I purposely put words like "most" and "a lot of" in my post for a reason. you also said you can't put heart and soul, and emotion into Electronic music, Many songs that I could link could easily prove that wrong... but I do see your point and I do agree to some extent.
No you're thinking of it the wrong way. I was trying to say that when you "play" electronic music, there isn't much originality going on when an electronic musician plays it live since a lot of the song has already been pre-made. A lot of the sounds have been pre-made. You can't put subtleties and little nuances into electronic music like you can acoustic, and sometimes that can make all the difference. actually you can just go into audacity or something and create your own loops and tracks to create music, there's a lot less pre-made loops in music then you think, the song I linked previously had been made almost completely of original loops that the artists had recorded and edited themsellves, Daft Punk make their own content, Justice makes their own loops, Pendulum creates almost all their songs from scratch or their own loops. these artist pour their hearts, soul, and hard work into these songs for us to enjoy, the same as any acoustic artists, the only difference is the platform they use to create their music.
[Edited on 01.07.2013 7:49 PM PST]