pop.
So today we had this discussion about what pop is and why isn’t pop important and why everyone was talking and laughing during our backstreet boy’s presentation. First, I think that people were probably talking and laughing just out of the memories we have with that music and with the boy band era in general. I mean let’s face it, we all grew up with it, and I’m pretty sure I can safely assume that most of us were boy bandloving kids. I know that I was and I laugh whenever I hear the backstreet boys again just because I was basically obsessed with them and I just think it’s funny that I was that like in love with them at one point. I think that’s probably why everyone was laughing, not because they thought it was horrible, although I’m sure most people do. I personally don’t think it’s that bad of music, I mean yes they didn’t write the songs themselves and there really are no real instruments in the music, but it’s still music and it was still extremely famous. And come on, how can something be that famous if it wasn’t good? even if it was just the tiniest bit good, there still had to be something there to make them sell all those records and to make all those teen girls swoon. So clearly there is something to pop music.
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Since I’m doing the backstreet boys for the final project this time I thought I would blog about what happened to all the boy bands and question why aren’t there any boy bands around during this time period. I mean really, they were so huge in the 90’s; N’SYNC, Backstreet Boys, 98 degrees, etc. what made them disappear, why don’t we listen to them anymore? I really have no answer to this question because it seems like people still listen to the same old “bubble-gum pop” today as they did in the 90s so I really have no idea why boy bands seem to no longer exsist. Well, I mean they do exisit, the Backstreet Boys just came out with a new album, but seriously, how many people acutally bought that album and how many people are acutally still listening to them? It seems like today all that people are interested in is solo artists or actual bands where people play their instruments, which I fully agree with. I mean that’s basically what I listen to also. I just think its very strange that none of the boy bands can seem to make it work now when they could make it work 10 years ago when people are still listening to the same kind of pop that they were listening to then.
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So I’ve been thinking a lot lately that there really haven’t been any great fantastic musicals that have come to the film industry lately and I think thats horrible. I’m a huge fan of broadway and plays and musicals and I was basically raised on watching The Sound of Music, so I just think it’s really sad that there are no longer any Broadway plays that are being turned into movies. I mean I realize that the musicals are far better on the stage than they will ever be on the silver screen but not everyone gets to go to New York all the time to see all the musicals that are coming out and I think it would be a great way for them to reach a broader audience. Also, I think musicals are a great way for the industry to make a profit because both Hairspray and Rent which both recently came to film after being Broadway plays had tremendous success in the movie world. I just think that people need to start watching those old musicals again like The Music Man and Oklahoma! and Singin in the Rain or that they should make remakes of the old movies because I love the musicals so much and I’ve really missed having them around.
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today we had a project meeting and I think that it went really well! I’m actually really excited about the ideas that we came up with and I think the final result will be fantastic. For my part I don’t even come in until the 80’s which is the perfect decade for me since I love the 80’s anyways so that’s good. I think our biographies and the way that we have written the story of the band and how the band started and how it progressed is very interesting and includes everyone. I’m glad that we chose the idea that we did because I think this is more creative than anything else than we could have done.
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I started reading Glimpses the other day and I was pretty excited about it based on the summaries I had read about it and the things we had talked about in class about it, but I have to say that I am pretty disappointed by what I have read so far. I’m finding it to be rather boring and in fact I’ve fallen asleep while reading it many times, and I haven’t even gotten through the Brian Wilson part. I’m also finding it to be incredibily depressing, I mean maybe it’s supposed to be that way because the character is supposed to be figuring out his life and finding out that he’s not supposed to be in the loveless marriage that he’s in but it’s all just very sad. The book does show how music can affect people’s lives in many ways though which is a good thing.
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