This man killed music
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David Bowie turned marketing into the essence of his art. All great phenomena of popular music, from Elvis Presley to the Beatles, had been, first and foremost, marketing phenomena, however, Bowie turned that into an art of its own. With Bowie the science of marketing becomes art; art and marketing become one. There were intellectuals who had proclaimed this theory in rebellious terms. Bowie was, in many ways, the heir, no matter how perverted, of Andy Warhol's pop art and of the underground culture of the 1960s. He adopted some of the most blaspheme issues and turned them upside down to make them precisely what they had been designed to fight: a commodity. Bowie was a protagonist of his times, although a poor musician: to say that Bowie is a musician is like saying that Nero was a harp player (a fact that is technically true, but misleading). Bowie embodies the quintessence of artificial art, raises futulity to paradigm, focuses on the phenomenon rather than the content, makes irrelevant the relevant, and, thus, is the epitome of everything that went wrong with rock music. Each element of his art is the emblem of a true artistic movement however, the ensemble of those emblems constitutes no more than a puzzle, no matter how intriguing, of symbols, a roll of incoherent images projected against the wall at twice the speed, a dictionary of terms rather than a poem, and, in the best of hypotheses, a documentary of the cultural fads of his era. Reading the chronicles of his times, it is clear that what caused sensation was the show, not the music. The show that Bowie set up was undoubtedly in sync with the avantgarde, as it fused theater, mime, cinema, visual art, literature and music. However, Bowie merely recycled what had been going on for years in the British underground, in particular what had been popularized by the psychedelic bands of 1967. And he turned it into a commodity: whichever way you look at his oeuvre, this is the real merit of it.
>>60459185
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>>60459185
butthurt poptimist spotted
>>60459185
I recommend suicide.
>>60459279
>implying david bowie isnt the tripest of tripe pop
>>60459296
i recommend you stop listening to musicians that suck ass bro -_-
Can we stop having this thread every day?
>>60459381
Only if you can provide a counter-argument thats half as good
>>60459185
Just looking at the first sentence gave away that it was Scaruffi
>>60459398
Nothing in the OP makes his music inherently bad, unless you have the same weird concept of Music (like scaruffi), of course.
>>60459398
"Killing music" doesn't make any literal sense. Bowie also heavily influenced several artists and inspired young people to make music, so the thought that he lead directly to a sizable decline in music is flawed.
on a separate note, Scaruffi doesn't speak English fluently, no wonder he can't put together a coherent argument
>>60459544
He actually does
I actually just pissed myself at listening to Bowie having a stroke while singing Let's Dance
>>60459544
Well to be fair his English proficiency has nothing to do with all that drivel, it's just a shit argument. It's perfectly coherent with his line of thought though I'll give him that
>>60459544
he inspired those "artists" and young people to play dress up and value concept over substance
>>60459185
love this pasta so much, its the fucking truth
>you will never cuddle with him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnH-nF6J-OA
>>60459185
I never really gave a fuck about Bowie's image - be it his costumes / set designs / album covers / films / whatever.
I never really found the music that sonically intriguing either.... with some exceptions. (The string arrangements in Space Odyssey are still pretty damn cool and Eno's contributions to Low are awesome.)
What really got me into Bowie was just his character. Not Ziggy/Aladdin/Thin White Duke... but Bowie himself. That confident sexy bloke who sings in a patchy snarly voice.
If Bowie was all about the commodity, he made a pretty amazing one... one that embodied the elusiveness of sexuality, raw power of a character, and flaws and frailty of an actual person. Kudos to him.
>>60459185
But I never saw anything he did with my eyes
I simply heard his music and I liked it for how it sounded
>>60459185
JUST
>>60459185
I don't like that he created commercialism, because I hate todays commercial music that is shoved down our throats.
But he's a pioneer in his own right, made fucking brilliant music, was a big influence for many different types of music.
>>60459248
Not new, been on Scaruffi's website for a long time.
