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So I was reading music reviews on Plugged In last night. Actually, I was reading movie reviews first, and then curious to see how Plugged In handled their music critique, I wandered over there. The White Stripes were on the front page. Intrigued, I opened the review. Two paragraphs that dealt entirely with the social/moral content of the lyrics. The music aspect described via the all-encompassing (and to me, dismissive) adjective: "eclectic." No treatment of the poetical aspect of the lyrics at all.
Perhaps this review was not meant to give any opinion whatsoever regarding aesthetic aspects. In which case, it serves its intended purpose. But I find the dichotomy Christians create between "Art" and "Morality" somewhat distressing. If it matters to parents whether their kids eat cocoa puffs all day or not, shouldn't they also be concerned about whether they listen to the musical equivalent? What if someone wanted to know what the music actually sounded like, in addition to knowing whether it was "safe"? What's to distinguish the White Stripes from all the other bands out there???
Sorry. Just a little venting here.
I surely do know what you mean. As much as I love the majority of plugged in's movie reviews I don't really get much from reading the musical reviews so therefore I don't read them. Though plugged in doesn't give much of an artistic or philosophical view but I get that from boundless.org which sometimes does a book, movie, or music review of their own. You know, I bet if you wrote some reviews on popular music and submitted them to boundless they would post them. I know you could do it and I had a friend who sent them a piece she wrote and they posted it!!
Posted by: Virginia at 25.09.05 21:53