10-19-2009, 04:12 PM
That example misses the point that Tupac's songs were distinguished lyrically, not off what notes the music were in. Also the production on them was not just with base and drum but with sampling and other effects. Its a fundamentally different kind of music than either the dixie chicks or Bach of Mozart.
I am a fan of every music genre other than metal (and pop music or nashville country), and they is vast variation in between all of them. To compare two drastically different sounds as pop country and mid 90s hip hop as the same because they are not as technically complex on as classical compositions is just silly. You can certainly be of the opinoins that the classical compositions are a higher class/more refined taste than the former, but to say the others are the same is silly (and also ignoring that lyrics are as much a part of music as an instrument).
In fact, when you claim that Tupac 'plays music' you belie the underlying point of a large cross section of hip hop, where the music is pretty much background noise to accompany the main point - lyrics, compared to the dixie chicks who are (nominally) musicians who play instruments. To non hip hop fans this is like comparing a automobile cumbustion engine to the jet engine. They both propel an object forward but that is almost all they have in common.
(Also amusing that in your 'what the kids are listening to' choices you picked "Bon Jovi, Tupac or the Dixie Chicks", since the former was last popular in the late 80s when young guns 2 came out, the seconds been dead for a decade and the third hasn't been relevant since they were in the news about criticizing bush
I am a fan of every music genre other than metal (and pop music or nashville country), and they is vast variation in between all of them. To compare two drastically different sounds as pop country and mid 90s hip hop as the same because they are not as technically complex on as classical compositions is just silly. You can certainly be of the opinoins that the classical compositions are a higher class/more refined taste than the former, but to say the others are the same is silly (and also ignoring that lyrics are as much a part of music as an instrument).
In fact, when you claim that Tupac 'plays music' you belie the underlying point of a large cross section of hip hop, where the music is pretty much background noise to accompany the main point - lyrics, compared to the dixie chicks who are (nominally) musicians who play instruments. To non hip hop fans this is like comparing a automobile cumbustion engine to the jet engine. They both propel an object forward but that is almost all they have in common.
(Also amusing that in your 'what the kids are listening to' choices you picked "Bon Jovi, Tupac or the Dixie Chicks", since the former was last popular in the late 80s when young guns 2 came out, the seconds been dead for a decade and the third hasn't been relevant since they were in the news about criticizing bush