May be I am blessed with a brain which does not exclude one to make room for the other, may be some people are unable to appreciate both at the same time, but I see as much greatness in science than in art. Of course there’s bad science, but there is also bad art so they are equal for this point
Let’s see: How do you most often listen to music? 49% the radio? I had a hard time to believe this one, and this revealed right away the age of the people who answered this survey, what about 50s-60s old guys and gals?
Every year they have to top the previous year. A few years ago we had the Tupac hologram, and what could be next? More celebrities paid to pause for selfies with complete strangers? Looking at my Twitter feed, people really love those! In fact some people go to Coachella just for the celebrity sightings.
This new study led to the conclusion that syntactic processing areas are not specific for language but are involved in a larger domain of communication, as there is a neural overlap between music and language processing.
I profoundly dislike the term conspiracy theory, it evokes a crazy middle-age guy/gal in front of a computer with a lot of time on his/her hands, a tinfoil hat on the head and a basement filled with food items to survive for a year
Art is now used as an accessory to promote music, it’s not an inspiration, it’s a promotional tool, that may or may not work. I am tempting to think that mainstream music is so weak right now that this is a need, a requirement to get all these artifices to attract attention and interest. Gaga and Jay Z take the high road dropping more famous painters in songs than the Met owns
Energy bars, check, sunscreen, check, iPhone, check, Bib number on the t-shirt, check, gums, check, sunglasses, check,… I have run a few Los Angeles Marathons, but I always worry about forgetting something, it’s a real trip each time, 26.2 miles from the Stadium (The Dodgers stadium) to the sea!
‘Depressing= a mega-corp owns a record label to push violent-msg rap to help its prison-mgmt co it owns 2 grow new inmates’. So I did a bit of research. I am very probably late on the subject, it’s an old story which apparently surfaced around 2012, but this is still a story running around many rap blog
