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Originally Posted by gianluca
...The notion that pop music is musically inferior to classical music in many respects, doesn't exclude the fact that there are a few pop artists and bands out there showing genuine musical creativity in their songs. I personally, however, find this supposed creativity in pop music still a farce when compared to the creativity shown by the great classical composers.
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All you're proving is your (unfounded) bias against pop, and towards classical. Open your ears, dig into the music. Also, there's just as much shitty and shallow
classical music being produced these days. It's a matter of experience, knowledge and familiarity.
You're familiar with the workings of classical music, and are applying these principles to evaluate 'worth' in pop music. You're not looking for the right things, because there's a richness and profundity in much pop music - your ears just aren't tuned to find it.
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Originally Posted by gianluca
I mean, compare the creativity it takes to make an album like Ok Computer to the creativity it takes to compose a St. Matthew's Passion or a Mahler symphony - it's a no-brainer that the former is not a patch on the latter.
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Don't ask me that, because (for me) it's not a no-brainer.
I think there's
considerably more creativity behind (specifically)
OK Computer [easily on of my picks for top 10 music albums of
all time] rather than Bach, or Mahler...
Please bear in mind that I'm coming from a
drastically different perspective than you.