Stormbringer

^ I guess so  

Still prefer the sandwich  

Then from now on a torta will always be considered a sandwich and a cake a cake

NO!!! Torta = cake 

^ Sorry sir I smacked my gavel and cake = cake! There will be no more discussion on these delicious matters!

I'm sorry, this is my thread and I say torta =  cake and that's it!

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In other things, and while I wait for my third album to be mixed and mastered, the second one will be available on iTunes, Spotify, GooglePlay and others from April 1st  

^ Oh heck yes! I shall keep an eye out for it sir! Congrats on all the continued success and as always... cake is cake

@Stormbringer Thought you might like to know there's a bit of a problem with your new signature, mate, it vanishes after a few frames!

It's part of the gif, so you might wanna get it fixed  

2 minutes ago, HitchcockBlonde said:

@Stormbringer Thought you might like to know there's a bit of a problem with your signature, mate, it vanishes after a few frames! It's part of the gif, so you might wanna get it fixed  

Thanks!  But that's weird, here I see it perfectly.

I see if for about four seconds and then:

Lovely set though, and congratulations on your music! That's beyond cool, much success to you 

same as @HitchcockBlonde

it disappears after some secs  

36 minutes ago, HitchcockBlonde said:

I see if for about four seconds and then:

 

22 minutes ago, Myfashexp said:

same as @HitchcockBlonde

 

it disappears after some secs  

That's really weird!  No idea what it could be but it works fine for me... I'll upload it again later.

37 minutes ago, HitchcockBlonde said:

Lovely set though, and congratulations on your music! That's beyond cool, much success to you 

Thank you so much!!!  Hope you liked the music, even though the lyrics are in Spanish  

Ahem, where is the cake at amigo?

Your new set displeases me as I do not like blondes 

Black Hair

Black/Red

Deep Red

Brunette

Red

Black/Blonde

Blonde

More then 3 colours.

Bald

So what's your opinion on his views?

Oh I completely agree with everything he says. I actually talked with @Prettyphile about pretty much this same thing some time ago; how today's Pop music sounds all the same, and all so generic and how it's music made by producers (who are the same group of people) and not by the "artists" that sing them.

I like how he exposes the problem and goes through a well made logical elaboration of it. And he's right...! Today's Pop music is depressingly homogenous and deprived of authenticity.

I only disagree when he says that Coldplay are incapable of doing something decent because at least they were. I find them, as I have told you, terribly boring but at least their older stuff was better. But they've been caught since a while in this machinery of "successful and mainstream" Pop that turned them even more into a another insipid product.

And this has happened with other bands as well: they start as something truly original, unique and interesting to then have some success and become a part of the machinery and another product of the "sausage factory". I can think of The Black Keys as an example of this... and quite some others.

The loudness war - the over compressing and saturating, and pushing the volumen up as much as possible - is another thing he mentions that has done terrible things to today's music.And as he says, another tool of homogenization. And the saddest part is that it doesn't only happen in Pop. In Rock and Metal music loudness war has been installed for a while, and I can specially think of producers like Rick Rubin contributing to it. Oh, how I hate how the albums he produces sound!! Musically great albums, but for me they sound terrible: over compressed, saturated, with no dynamic range giving no rest to ear. And of course, loud as fuck (Metal Magnetic by Metallica and 13 by Black Sabbath are good examples).

I loved the Frank Zappa quote he added! That guy was so clever and always had such an interesting insight of music and the industry. Wish he was still alive to see what would he have to say about today's mainstream Pop. And his music was incredible and so the opposite to what's happening now.

There's a reason I do not listen to mainstream music (the video said it perfectly) and I'm not kidding when I say I have no idea who 95% of the newer bands *i.e. bands that have come out in the last 15 years* are.... 

^ And it's so sad that so many great music being made today it gets lost and buried with all that stuff...

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Kind of related? but more humorous 

I may cover this one btw  

And amigo, these songs will be this generations classics once they are of elderly age...can you imagine that?

I actually doubt it. Since these are products of such an homogenous nature there's nothing unique  that actually makes anything to really stand out. If anything I can see people some 20 or 30 years from now throwing the word "classics" at that music out of nostalgia but nothing more. To then fade again.

For something to be a true classic it has to transcend over generations and I don't see this Pop being capable of that.

But I guess we'll see and I could be wrong... (I really hope not  ) 

I'm guessing you might be wrong because that is the music they were exposed to as kids and they keep pumping out the same generic material year-after-year so do they know any better now or will they in their 60's?