TaoTapeTao wrote:Najlepsiejszy wrote:I think that the album is a social commentary AND a tale of a man who is the only survivor of some disaster.
It works as a social commentary because it's like an expression of sadness over the fact that we don't appreciate beauty and art anymore. People used to laugh at those who don't read books, but now those people are "proud" of the fact that they don't read. Or for example- many movies make lots of money not because they have a great, complex meaning, but because they were advertised everywhere and they're full of explosions. We can also notice simplification of art. An example is that music is now mostly about being louder, not being better. Or just listen to the radio. I can guarantee you that you'll hear waaay too many trance songs which sound "epic", like you're going to a party and stuff.
And I think that the tale doesn't need any explanation. Just listen to TH.
I'm not so sure about this at all. I think most of these statements are vague and over-generalized. There has always been the dualism between art and meaningless crap. And believe me there are millions of people who still "appreciate art" and millions of counterexamples of this lack of art/beauty. It's not getting worse exactly, there's just a paradigm shift. Every generation has its 'edm' and its 'art' these definitions change with the changing culture.
I'm mostly talking about popularity. Of course art still exists, but people are not interested in it and maybe just scrape the surface once in a while.
Our experiences may vary...I'm probably much younger than you and I may be wrong, because I mostly talk with my peers.