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... and emotion and some of the strongest emotions are negative ones. Maybe a painful song is “better” than a happy one. Who knows? These are questions I do not have the answer to but would love to know. I’d also like to know what the artists think. Apparently Eminem is all for it, but what about someone like Kanye?
Rap Genius threatens the art of music : Daily-cardinal
...noticed the number of people with headphones in on your way to class? I am one of those people, and I always find myself wondering what other people are listening to and why they are listening to it. After much consideration and wondering I think I’ve come to a conclusion: People listen to the songs they do based on how it makes them feel and what it means to them.
Rap Genius threatens the art of music : Daily-cardinal
... what an artist might have been thinking about when writing their songs. However, after doing some research I found a lot of harsh comments about Rap Genius from people high up in the music industry. They seem to think that it is ruining music as an art. I’m not sure if I agree or not, but I can see both sides of the argument.
Rap Genius threatens the art of music : Daily-cardinal
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...her Denny had effectively just tricked Silicon Valley's tricksteriest startup into demonstrating that the technology industry is as curious, mockable, intriguing, and complex as he portrays it to be. Seeking answers, I called Emily Segal, Genius's creative director. She said that having the launch at Denny's show had been her idea. I asked if she felt like Denny was making fun of Genius and the tech industry. "To call it a celebration isn't right, and to call it...
Artist Simon Denny's Absurdist Vision of Silicon Valley | VICE | United States
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Of course, not all artists syringe Lamar-level complexity into their lyrics. Nor do Genius contributors consistently bring their A-game. Sometimes a joyless gloss drains the effervescence and jitter right out of a song, as when a user tried to resolve a line from Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk,” “I’m too hot (hot damn)/ Make a dragon wanna...
The Genius annotations to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly: Do they unpack its meaning, or obscure it?
... though I’d participated in—or even eavesdropped on—a lively discussion. Maybe that’s because listeners in 2015 are less excited about a decade-old Death Cab album than about Kendrick Lamar’s latest. Yet, as I said, I’m not convinced that class gets much more raucous or inspiring when hotter tracks are on the curriculum. (Notes on a fresh Sufjan Stevens song, for instance, struck this student as similarly limp and perfunctory.)
The Genius annotations to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly: Do they unpack its meaning, or obscure it?
...t would give up in a contest of who’s got more heat.” It’s hard to figure the value of that kind of margin note, unless you are a dragon slayer trying to make your dragon roll over and die of boredom. Likewise, older works can get shafted, perfunctorily broken down rather than lovingly taken apart and reconstituted. I was wrecked when a pair of couplets from my beloved “Gangsta’s Paradise,” by Coolio, were shorn of mythic desolation and grandeur by the gloss, “Coolio’s enviroment [sic] made it hard for him to ach...
The Genius annotations to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly: Do they unpack its meaning, or obscure it?
...’ron verse. The text: “80 holes in your shirt, there, your own Jamaican clothes.” Moghadam’s attempt at a gloss—Jamaicans are poor; poor people wear tattered garments—was ’tate zero, the prime ’tate. It was also incorrect (and a little racist).
The Genius annotations to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly: Do they unpack its meaning, or obscure it?
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