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Looking at my post count, the forum's probably sick of me extolling the greatness of Phase 1 and pre-TJ 2.0 SR and me pretending that TJ has been inactive since JCHI. (Whoever did Variety, it wasn't the Tokyo Jihen I know.)
I've become somewhat of a conflicted fan over the years. I absolutely dislike whatever nonsense SR/TJ is putting out right now. I yearn for the familiarity of of MM or SS or KZK or Dynamite Out, yet that familiarity is getting a little tired and boring to me. SR's songs used to be full of surprises all the time. Boundaries were being pushed. Through the music, I hear someone fighting for her passion. It just doesn't seem that way anymore. When people asked me what artist/band I liked, I used to say, without hesitation, "Shiina Ringo and Tokyo Jihen". These days, I saying "Amy Winehouse" more and more. Oh well. |
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I am content to remain floating around in the ambiguous area in between dispassionate social anthropologist and comfortable, animated insider. On the subject of the reception of disparate opinions, I hope it would be safe to say that no one is expected to toe the party line, and intelligent civil discourse is encouraged. |
gentle rap on the knuckles, what? Nothing of the sort, sir! Just say "isn't" cuz otherwise you're undermining your own opinion. Otherwise it gives the appearance of "well if you can't get behind your own opinion, why should I give a fuck?" The above post is just "me" talking, not like its some gov't sanctioned address. =p
Unless I have my Ebert-hat on, don't take anything I say too seriously =p |
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I agree about the junkie comment, amy winehouse is amazingly overrated. she is this decade's alicia keys. alicia keys was such a joke to any somewhat educated pianist. give someone a grammy and suddenly they have some credibility? amy winehouse, IMHO, is same.
but there are good junkies and bad junkies. tori amos did amazing work on opium, but then she probably put her best work out while clean. There is a difference between drugs making you sloppy and drugs being the jumping off point (along with a sober man's music) into alternate realiy, ala jimmi hendrix etc. |
The Beatles totally sucked once they started taking drugs :hmph:
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the moral of the story is: who cares if an artist is taking drugs if other than a health concern
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A lot of my friends dismiss Amy Winehouse just because she's a junkie. I even had to trick them in to listening to her music, get their feet tapping and head bopping and exclaim "hey this is good" before I told them "It's Amy Winehouse" and watch their mouths agape, expressions frozen but slowly changing from disbelief to denial.
Who ever takes the Grammys seriously anyway? I don't. Just because one artist won more Grammys than another doesn't prove that he/she is a better, more innovative musician; it just proves that them and their PR reps are better at politicking. If they happen to make good music too, then good for them! If anything, TJ took that PV technical award for Killer Tune just to give themselves some credibility. FYI Shinji, I use Winehouse, Paul Desmond and Astor Piazzolla interchangeably; Winehouse just gives me the most reactions. |
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