Oh dear god, I do hope not, but all the signs are there.
Every ten years or so, at the end of every decade, there seems to be this new wave of destructive creativity, widely derided by the old guard (where’s the skill? where’s the substance? that’s not music, it’s just a noise etc) but very popular among the next generation, basically because it short-cuts the learning curve and well… anyone can do it. And it’s their’s.
So we had acid-rock in the 60s, punk in the 70s, rave-music in the 80s… I once heard Tony Wilson say that every ten years there’s a new wave of music… and right now the music business is worse than it was at the worst part of the 80s, so we’re due for another revolution right now.
That was 1998 and unfortunately nothing happened.
We skipped a decade. However (checks watch) it’s that time again. Time for this decade’s flooding of the Nile, time for the longbows at Agincourt… Time for something new.
So. Take a look around, what do you see? Millions of kids on Myspace each with their own 15 pixels of fame, and more importantly, on youtube making their own videos out of other people’s music. It isn’t about money – it’s about getting as many other kids as possible going (like) OMG, WTF, LOL – check this out!!!.
But where’s the skill? Where’s the substance? That’s not music etc.
Actually, some them are pretty good
I think this girl managed to get some sort of TV deal off the back of her Youtube activities, but like, whatever.
Is this it? Must be incredibly exciting if you’re 17… and like, Doing It. If you’re not – if you’re still getting up to speed with your pre-CBS Strat, doing your umpteenth rehearsal for your umpteenth gig, you probably don’t quite get it – even though (and this tends to be the way with all these things) everyone’s invited.
Actually, I have a confession to make.
All of the above was just an elaborate roundabout way of leading into…
OMG, WTF, LOL… Check this out!!!
This guy takes lip-syncing into whole new dimensions of weirdness. This is the double-album, gate-fold, rock-opera concept-project… it takes the pinnacle of David Lynch’s art… the narrowed the gap between cosy and creepy, and refines it about 1000 times..
Fast forward to the 7th minute or so… Arrrghhhh!!! Holy Fuck.
Responses to “Youtube is the New Punk.”
March 7th, 2007 at 7:00 am
Hi Nick,
regarding the video with Master Teacher to which you have posted this link, I ask for a new look at it. It is about the mind-training of A Course In Miracles, a transforative discipline of changing your mind about everything. What A Course In Miracles offers cannot be understood in terms of this world, because it is not from this world. But you, everyone can understand it in your, in his desire for something not of this world, meaning that this world does not know truth, does not have a single solution to any problem you may face at any given time. It is about an experience that will show you that you are not a body, that you are free. Freedom is not of the body, but of the mind. The body is an image you hold about yourself, and the prove you accept and justify on its behalf is not true. You have no prove of it except its own devices. This means you do not know who you are. You accept this image as what you are. That is why you are constantly looking for a reflection that recognizes, justifies and veryfies you. Yet it cannot be done. Who are you? On a subatomic level you certainly would dismiss the idea you have about yourself immediately.
So the idea you hold to be true, is a fals idea about yourself. The Course in Miracles offers you a solution based on your Source. There can only be one source of life, call it whatever you want. You have to be a complete and whole part of it. This tiny little body of yours in this vast universe is a mockery of your reality. And yet, as a conceptual human mind, you do everything to defend, justify and assert it to be who you are. Death is the central idea behind this thought system, because it seems to prove that you are not eternal, that there is a power greater than life.
What a ridiculous idea!!!
You will have to change you mind about yourself. At some point. Why wait? What do you have to lose? Sickness, pain, getting old, dying?
There really is life eternal, meaning communication unbroken, including everything there is. There is only your mind, not split, as you experience yourself, but everything still in it, since ideas do not leave their source.
Master Teacher is a catalyst of this experience of healing and wholeness because he fully awakened to his eternal self and came back into this dream of death and separation to teach your way out of this hell.
Kind regards,
Alban
March 31st, 2008 at 3:26 am
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February 5th, 2007 at 10:37 am
The amount of bizzare music videos that seem to take themselves seriously these days is starting to tip the mainstream stranglehold on talentless saps into a whole new stratosphere.
Have you seen Reh Dogg?
http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro/article.html?in_article_id=33850&in_page_id=6
This blows my mind. Nevermind the “Kersal Massive” who are so bad they have been parodied so many times that their “track” is now stuck in my head…
“Tell ‘em Joe ‘ow the fuck it is yeh” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uja3W-ibifc