In Search of Beauty
February 16th, 2007 at 12:04 am (Uncategorized)
When an album I dislike gets positive reviews I’ll often question my initial assessment of it. Instead of assuming that the critics are lacking in taste, I’m inclined to consider that I wasn’t in the right headspace, or perhaps failed to appreciate something in the music when I first listened to it. My concern is that I missed something beautiful that the critics spotted and if beauty is to be found in a song I want in on it. Really a music review is nothing more than one persons judgement of how much beauty is to be found in an album. Lyrics, vocals, instrumentation, innovation, whatever, if there is something beautiful there the reviewer is charged with the task of spotting it. Therefore a positive review cannot be wrong and that’s why music reviews (in fact reviews of all art) are such a strange exercise. If the music resonates with someone then they’ve seen the beauty in it, and that cannot be discounted by anyone. So where does taste fit into this? If some dude buys the Kevin Federline album and thinks it was the best rap album of 2006 are they wrong? No. There’s nothing wrong with their assessment, there’s something wrong with the question. The fact of the matter is that art of any kind is entirely subjective, so it is impossible to say there is one album that is objectively superior to any others. A critic can explain an album’s contextual value, but they cannot say it isn’t beautiful.
Allmusic.com, which is a website I actually hold in very high regard, say that the reggae album “Mellow Dubmarine: Tribute to the Beatles” is a worthless piece of garbage–”misguided” and “laughable” are the terms they actually use. Perhaps they were snoozing when this cover by John Holt was on. I love the idea that I found the beauty where others did not. Kanye spotted it too.
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mister joey junk said,
February 22, 2007 at 4:44 pm
the first time i tried to make a comment i actually got the validation shit wrong. bedmas. fuck. math is my strong suit. aw well. eh, whats up with this validation shit anyways. i like the track. keep up the good work dave. even if internetwebsite has stolen a bit of your thunder.
Tony said,
February 23, 2007 at 9:57 am
I second that man, I just wrote a long fucking comment and didn’t get that validation bitch right and now you get nothing. OH, and it was goood.
songstory said,
February 23, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I’m the one who is supposed to suck at math. If you’re seeing this comment, it means that I aced that validation shizzit.
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