Word: musication
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...second contingent is the more dedicated music connoisseur—well trained in navigating the backroads of Pandora and avoiding Kiss FM and iTunes’s top 100. Harvard party music is banal and grating to their ears, and they prefer underground creativity to mainstream chart success. Their most likely criticism of a Yardfest artist: “Other people have heard of them...
...also has the acoustic edginess that hardcore music enthusiasts might overlook at first glance. “Love Song” is a jab at the corporate music industry’s request that she write a “marketable” love song (ironic in hindsight given the song’s popularity—and marketability—but bold nonetheless). She’s an incredibly talented vocalist, and she’s unapologetic about her passion: “I’ve been writing songs for as long as I can remember. Some...
...immediately followed by a long nightmare of Third Eye Blind, Gavin DeGraw’s big brother, and some rap group from the ’90s. At the end of it all, as if to blot out the last remaining hope that the kind of music I like might make a fledgling stand on campus, fate intervened and aborted Girl Talk...
...wasn’t just dull concerts that broke my faith: it was an entire culture indifferent to my kind of music. That’s not to say that my taste is any better or worse than anyone else’s. It’s just that, woefully, not many people seem to agree with it. Here at multicultural Harvard, no one goes out of their way to avoid parties hosted by African-Americans or homosexuals. But everyone invariably complains about parties thrown by pretentious hipsters—we’re the one identity caucus it?...
...going to attempt an aesthetic apologia of Ratatat; in fact, I think defending any music on rational terms is usually an exercise in pompous futility. But I will stand up and applaud the CEB for finally nodding in the direction of the long-marginalized musical sect to which I unblushingly belong. It’s about time...