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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 @ 15:42
Indie Elitist? Yeah, Right! =P A good friend posted a quote on her microblog today, "New trend: It's not about how savvy you are about particular artist. It's about how big your MP3s file size in total. The bigger the better." An almost similar opinion came from my BFF when I expressed my utter fanatism towards Arctic Monkeys by saying how they're going to be the next "The Beatles". Her reply was: "Nowadays there are already tons of bands and tons of genres compared to when The Beatles had their success. People have more choice and therefore have a wider view of preference towards music. It's going to be hard for the Arctic Monkeys to have the same kind of everlasting same success like The Beatles had." At first, I didn't really grasp her view, but now that I experienced it myself, I'm beginning to understand. I personally have a preference towards British music, preferably Indie. But I'm not closing my options. Not that long ago, my choice of music was limited to what's on MTV and local Radio. And even that is limited, because I don't spend that much time in front of TV and Radio. My music fetish started when I was searching for music I like on the Internet and the effort of downloading it. What I tend to do when I like a certain song is to find out who sing it and whether the artist have any other song which is as good as the one I currently like. And so the journey of discovery began. The more I dig into one artist, the more I find great music out there. And I started to realize that what I thought was a big music industry was even bigger in reality. I must say the Internet opened a wide oppurtunity for me to discover lots of great artist out there. MTV and Radio is no longer my only sources of finding new music (in fact I don't even listen to those two anymore these days). The interweb has sites like Last.fm that helps me a lot (with its 'Recommendation' feature that groups similar artists and recommend their songs to you), and then there's all kinds of music charts from all around the world, and together with tons of music blogs and music webzine, my hunger for new music is satisfied. Curiosity, anti-trend and pride is what makes me a download addict. I'm always curious of new music, I search endless music webzine and monitor their new and featured artists articles. I regularly check out my favourite charts and radio playlist (notably UK Radio playlist =P). I, blindly, download new music and listen through it offline, when I commute to-from the office. And that's how enrich my library. I also like to think I'm a little anti-trend. I'm easily bored of repeated music on radio and TV. While most people grow their fondness by listening to the same song over and over and asked the radio station to play it every chance they get, I feel bored of the same music just by listening to them for two weeks top. By the time people start to get the new music hype, I'm already losing interest and in search for newer music. Plus, I tend to avoid mainstream music just because I'm anti-trend. Weirdly, there's a sense of pride and elation when people don't recognize my music.  I guess this is why new bands wouldn't have the same success when compared to The Beatles or such artist those days. There are just too many selection of new music offered every day. The music industry moves too fast for a person to become ever-fanatic to just one artist. Sure there are still some fanatism, but you also open your mind and ear to other bands/artists. Arctic Monkeys isn't my only favourite artist, it's one of my favourite artists. I still crave for newer music every day, searching for one that's still undiscovered, fresh and original. That's why I prefer Indie music. But I'm still far from what you call a music expert or Indie Elitist, and I may seem shallow at times, but this is just my opinion =).
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