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Post by triceratops »

saalweachter wrote: post #109
schwartzworld wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went to a smashing pumpkins show and was so turned off that I stopped being a fan. I have met several others with the same experience

Since I don't go to live shows, I tend to just have the disappointment of finding out that I only like some of my favorite bands' albums, because the arc of their own musical careers doesn't match my own tastes. Why can't performers just stay the same forever, producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct works?

> Why can't performers just stay the same forever, producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct works?

Because they're artists. Even the record company-manufactured acts consider themselves artists.

On a human level, they're already performing the same pieces of music thousands of times - in rehearsals, concerts, recordings. It must get incredibly tedious after a while. You want them to write the same type of music all their lives as well? You monster! :-P

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Post by EricE »

spoonjim wrote: post #76
keiferski wrote: post #17

I always thought Daft Punk figured out the perfect solution to the how to be famous problem. Everyone recognizes their artist name and their artist costume, but virtually no one knows their real name or would accost them on the street.

You might be surprised how little of a “disguise” can make you unrecognizable. Shakira took a history class at UCLA and just by not wearing makeup and using her legal name Isabel, nobody recognized her (or if they did, they didn’t say anything). The “Shakira” you see on TV is such an artificial construction that someone seeing her without any of the artifice has no idea it’s “her.”

I think a bit of that is you don't expect to see someone famous just walking down the street. On more than on occasion I've passed someone and went "Was that.... naw, couldn't be" then found out later that yes, it really was that person.

The corollary to the S.E.P. field in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (SEP - Somebody Else's Problem Field - loved the concept for the ultimate invisibility cloak)

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Post by bredren »

coldpie wrote: post #133
bredren wrote: post #124

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I thought Get Lucky’s quality was more a reflection of Pharrell and Rogers’ talent than DP. The rest of that album was a whiff. That said, GL the song and video were great and no hiding the string of classics. I remember hearing Around the World on the radio for the first time and pulling my car over. I was in high school. A few notes on this video: 1. I wonder if this was delayed due to the bomber in Nashville. Stil…

> The rest of that album was a whiff Aww. It's no Discovery, but I quite like RAM. More than Human After All, anyway. "Contact" and "Giorgio" in particular are stand out tracks to me.

I tried to get into the Giorgio tracks. Certainly appreciated the nod but the album was marketed as a banger and felt left in a lurch apart from GL.

Fwiw, I felt set up by the early marketing hype on the tractor-trailers in Japan, which I thought inaccurately portrayed what was to come.

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Post by spoonjim »

0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #110
spoonjim wrote: post #76

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You might be surprised how little of a “disguise” can make you unrecognizable. Shakira took a history class at UCLA and just by not wearing makeup and using her legal name Isabel, nobody recognized her (or if they did, they didn’t say anything). The “Shakira” you see on TV is such an artificial construction that someone seeing her without any of the artifice has no idea it’s “her.”

Really undermines the title "hips don't lie"

LOL. The way she moves her butt is so distinctive that if she just walks like a normal person that’s a disguise of sorts.

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Post by devin »

spectaclepiece wrote: post #107

I heard this story which I’m not sure is true but could very well be. Apparently two guys claimed to be Daft Punk in Ibiza and racked up massive bills everywhere before splitting. Needless to say that didn’t make them very popular there before everybody figured out what had happened.

Doubt it. These guys played Ibiza plenty in the 90s. People would know.

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Post by weinzierl »

HelloFellowDevs wrote: post #97
mabbo wrote: post #89

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I saw Don Schlitz[0] perform "The Gambler" at The Grand Ole Opry[1] last year (juuust before Covid). He said something like "Yeah, Kenny Rogers did well with this song, but I can still go to the grocery store without being recognized, and I still get paid when they play it" (or something to that effect). Funny guy, and a great singer too. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Schlitz [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Sometimes the greatest thing for many people is the ability to choose fortune over fame.

It's the fallacy of the C-list celebrity to realize too late that fame does not easily convert to fortune.

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Post by EricE »

strictnein wrote: post #42

I remember the first time I heard and saw the "Around the World" video. It must have been summer of 1997(?), when MTV still played music videos and they played the "weirder" ones late at night. Was poking online at stuff and had the TV on in the other room and I heard this weird (as in different) song come on, head to the other room to see that strange music video and I was immediately hooked. They only showed the ar…

"I had to stay up another 2 or 3 hours until the entire segment repeated itself to catch who it actually was."

Ah, the days when phones were on the wall with a cord too.

At least MTV did still play music back then. And the record industry wonders why file sharing sites took off? I loved limewire because I could find songs I liked, then I would grab everything else that person had and I discovered so much new content - I bought more CDs than I ever would have otherwise simply because I discovered stuff I didn't even know existed. I still haven't found anything that could match that discovery experience; it's kind of crazy really.

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Post by dylan604 »

jerrre wrote: post #111
dylan604 wrote: post #103

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Wow. You must be really young, or from a sheltered lifestyle. I remember skipping school to attend the first couple of shows, and then continued in college. Seems to my memory that the 'palooza festivals re-energized the whole music festival concept, as there were many more annual festivals that came through town after. I still have the t-shirts that I can't wear, but refuse to throw out.

Or maybe not living geographically and/or culturally close? Or does that fall under sheltered lifestyle.

I don't live anywhere near Glastonbury, but I'm fully aware that it is a real event. I'm at least in the same country as Miami, but have never attended the WMC, or the Grammys, or iHate Radio events in Vegas. I was a wee lad when Farm Aid occurred, but I was aware that it was more than a reference in an animated TV show. I've also been able to read music 'zines and websites without being geographically near any of them.

So yeah, sheltered or at the least, thoroughly uninterested in music as anything more than just something in the background. Willing to admit, I have a much more intense interest in music, so I do read/listen to things that would be considered history to something compared to anything performed before Taylor Swift.

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Post by weinzierl »

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #137
Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #45

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Several other musicians have done the same through mask wearing. Gene Simmons of Kiss was probably rarely recognized in public before, much later in life, he started appearing in television programs without his makeup. MF Doom, Sia, the list goes on.

Can't forget The Residents[1] - they were/are instantly recognizable (as eyeballs in tophats, that is) but had a rotating crew inside the masks. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents#Identity

Taken to the extreme I've heard the Blue Man Group is more a franchise than theatre group which recruits the the personnel for their shows locally.

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Post by fumar »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #21
donatj wrote: post #14

I genuinely feel like listening to Discovery on my discman on the bus in high school helped define who I am as a person. On the one hand I find this news horribly disheartening, on the other hand I am thrilled to see them go out on top. They have never had a bad album, and I’m my opinion they only got better as they went. Godspeed you beautiful robots.

Oh man. Discman on the bus. Those words punch me right in the memory. Likewise, I had a period of time listening to daft punk’s discovery that was fairly transformative. It completely, with no exaggeration, overhauled my understanding and appreciation of music.

100% carrying around my prized possessions, discman + CDs or minidisc, was pivotal to who I am now. And always with me was Daft Punk's Discovery. At that age, the songs felt long but in a good way. I couldn't wrap my head around the undulating changes and how it they made music. I also love Homework but Discovery has been a top album for me since I was 12. Veridis Quo captured my imagination and was a big influence which I believe led me to enjoy artists like Sigur Ros.
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