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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Deeper meaning in Music: Phoenix - Lisztomania
Lizstomania, performed by Grammy winning French alternative rock band Phoenix from their 4th studio album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is a song that I have a deep connection with and greatly inspires.
Phoenix crafts a beautiful song with sharp fast paced melodies accompanied by lead singer Thomas Mars' soothing voice. Lizstomania is a song that deals the hardships of creating the perfect song. Mars sings about the trials he must face as he tries to maintain his integrity as an artist but at the same time, create a melodic pop song that will appeal to mainstream audiences. On the surface, Lizstomania is a typical happy, care free pop song; catchy, radio friendly and easily digestible for mainstream music consumers but deeper investigation into the lyrics reveals Thomas Mars' struggle to create music that will not just appeal to the mainstream, but appeal to his integrity as an artist. Phoenix blends catchy, perfectly balanced hooks with sharp song writing to create a song that appeals to mainstream audiences but not at the cost bands artistic integrity.
Further reading
Pitchfork Review of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
New Media; New boundaries
As the internet continues to grow and expand, humans have become more reliant on the web to provide them with news, information and entertainment. We utilize web services such as blogs, and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to consume information. The use of mobile telephones to consume such information as made it personalization of information easier and more mainstream.
Thanks to the internet, there has been a very noticeable paradigm shift in the way information is presented, created and consumed. Overall it represents a good change for the media; change that means we should pay greater attention to our shared online spaces. The use of Web 2.0 has created a virtual free for all; information is easily available to our finger tips. Although the availability of information is great for human development as a whole, it creates a fundamental segregation among people. Thanks to the availability of technology, we instinctively forgo natural human interaction and instead opt to communicate through technology. Any over reliance on technology as a means of human communication is potentially detrimental to human development. Kids might lose valuable social skills they should be learning.
The availably of information makes it harder to actually "learn" a skill. One can simply download a program and create a blog from scratch with little or no skills in HTML whatsoever. Although the digital age is a great benefit to man kind, giving us information that was previously unavailable, it is also detrimental to our development and can be obsessive or distracting.
The book Personal Connections in the Digital Age, author Mckenna,Green believes "long-distance romances are built and maintained through electronic contact"(pg3) I agree with Greens statement because applications such as Skype and other video calling services have helped long distance relationships to be maintained . Thanks to this technology, it is been possible for individuals to interact with one another even though they are far from one another. An article written by Matt Richtel shows technology's detrimental effects on humans. The article describes the story of a young boy who prefers to spend his time chatting on Facebook and watching videos on YouTube rather than do his summer homework.
The abuse of technology is the biggest issue in our society because its making people lazy and ineffective. I recently watched a video of a woman who fell into the fountain at her local mall while texting; although I initially laughed at the lady's ordeal, I realized that her obsession with technology was so great that she become engrossed in a relationship she had formed and maintained through technology. The same technology that she so highly relied on for communication also lead to her embarrassment. Metaphorically speaking, her over reliance on technology lead to her downfall.
Thanks to the internet, there has been a very noticeable paradigm shift in the way information is presented, created and consumed. Overall it represents a good change for the media; change that means we should pay greater attention to our shared online spaces. The use of Web 2.0 has created a virtual free for all; information is easily available to our finger tips. Although the availability of information is great for human development as a whole, it creates a fundamental segregation among people. Thanks to the availability of technology, we instinctively forgo natural human interaction and instead opt to communicate through technology. Any over reliance on technology as a means of human communication is potentially detrimental to human development. Kids might lose valuable social skills they should be learning.
The availably of information makes it harder to actually "learn" a skill. One can simply download a program and create a blog from scratch with little or no skills in HTML whatsoever. Although the digital age is a great benefit to man kind, giving us information that was previously unavailable, it is also detrimental to our development and can be obsessive or distracting.
The book Personal Connections in the Digital Age, author Mckenna,Green believes "long-distance romances are built and maintained through electronic contact"(pg3) I agree with Greens statement because applications such as Skype and other video calling services have helped long distance relationships to be maintained . Thanks to this technology, it is been possible for individuals to interact with one another even though they are far from one another. An article written by Matt Richtel shows technology's detrimental effects on humans. The article describes the story of a young boy who prefers to spend his time chatting on Facebook and watching videos on YouTube rather than do his summer homework.
The abuse of technology is the biggest issue in our society because its making people lazy and ineffective. I recently watched a video of a woman who fell into the fountain at her local mall while texting; although I initially laughed at the lady's ordeal, I realized that her obsession with technology was so great that she become engrossed in a relationship she had formed and maintained through technology. The same technology that she so highly relied on for communication also lead to her embarrassment. Metaphorically speaking, her over reliance on technology lead to her downfall.
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