what song are you listening to?.... thread...

[OngBonga]

My favourite bassist...

[MadMojoMonkey]

My favourite bassist...

It has its moments. IDK if I can get over the electronica element of it to eventually like it. It's pretty rare that I get over that. Which isn't at all fair to the music, but them's the brakes in a subjective field.



It kinda triggers my 'old guy' though.
Do you really need to play the same measure 4 times in a row? Oh now the next measure gets 4 times, too?

Also, I have other emotions aside from hyper-mania, so why is it every song these days thinks the only way to increase tension is by increasing metric subdivisions? I.e. there are other ways to increase tension aside from increasing the number of notes per bar.

That's mostly tongue-in-cheek criticism. I have to listen to a song more than 1 or 2 times to know how I really feel about it, and those 2 critiques are my standard, "This is new and different, but these damn kids still think playing faster is adding emotional content." response.

[oskar]

It kinda triggers my 'old guy' though.
Do you really need to play the same measure 4 times in a row? Oh now the next measure gets 4 times, too?

That is the second worst criticism of Hard Normal Daddy I have ever heard.
I would say a lot of times in electronic music you have the drums taking the role of the melody while bass or melody takes the role of keeping time like this:



So complaining that the melody is simplistic is besides the point because it's not in focus.

But on HND everything is working together and every track is a meticulously written out piece where hardly anything repeats. If it did I would still defend it.