Daily reminder that David bowie was the definition of style over substance. While he was very good at this, his music was largely unremarkable, a mere sign of the times. If you listen to David bowie in 2017 and act as if its somehow any better whatsoever than current modern pop music, you're a total fucking musically clueless tool, and probably an insecure Sup Forumsdrone on top of it. There is absolutely nothing separating bowies quality/brand of pop music from modern pop, and you're a gullible image oriented moron if you try to deny this.
>but he was so eclectic! Muh album themes muh theater
Under this same logic is the reason terrible artists like lil pump and designer are famous today. They are also "eclectic".
Christopher Barnes
This is now a David Bowie discussion thread.
Camden Jackson
>There is absolutely nothing separating bowies quality/brand of pop music from modern pop >le wrong generation, amirite? xD Fuck off, nerd.
Camden Fisher
>eclectic Well I think the point is that he was eclectic in a time of rigid boundaries. Now that all music tends towards eclecticism it is less remarkable. Certainly as you say most modern pop owes a huge debt to Bowie.
Ironically, Sup Forums's musical illiteracy hinders them most when they're attempting to describe straightforward pop.
James Gonzalez
he literally said the opposite. he's calling out defeners you moron.
Isaac Long
Mick Ronson was a talented guitarist.
Carter Richardson
He's saying Bowie's music is shit because it's like modern pop, implying modern pop is inherently bad. Back to remedial english, pal.
Nathaniel Myers
What's your favourite Bowie album OP?
Hudson Nguyen
he didn't say it was bad, he said it was "style over substance" and "unremarkable" which for the most part it is (statistically speaking), but it can be enjoyable nonetheless. plus wrong generationers suck bowie's cock by definition.
Dylan Martin
Style is substance you fucking mong. If you listen to music for any other reasons besides aesthetics you're a fucking dipshit and probably a boring person.
Music is about what sounds good and that's it.
Kys.
Asher Price
Why does Sup Forums dislike Reality?
Cameron Phillips
>Under this same logic is the reason terrible artists like lil pump and designer are famous today. Wrong generation fags hate modern pop because it is exactly that. He thinks Bowie is like modern pop, so he doesn't like it. >(statistically speaking) You're a fucking nerd, too.
Henry Phillips
>t. brainlet
Bentley Sanders
Guys I found the Scaruffi ass licker
Ethan Gomez
you win the discourse award
Dylan Perry
>this is musical literacy
Ryder Long
I thought summer was over...
Michael Reed
How? I said that Bowie was just a pop artist of his time. Just like nowadays there are current pop artists. As his music wasn't anything special, he's been replaced by more newer artists. I'm not saying modern pop is bad, how did you interpret it that way?
Levi Carter
for you
Gabriel Clark
>You're a fucking nerd, too. trying too hard to be a chad buddy. you do browse Sup Forums so we already know you're a numale who got bullied as a kid. what're you trying to prove? that you're a brainlet on top of that?
John Walker
You need to go back.
Grayson Moore
>As his music wasn't anything special, he's been replaced by more newer artists. What? There will always be new artists to replace older ones. This has and will continue to happen in every single genre, forever.
Jayden Watson
No, I just don't pretend I can use statistics can say anything about subjective art.
Jason Stewart
Yes, and Bowie's music was completely unremarkable pop. There's absolutely no reason to remember it besides nostalgia - the only other reason would be if you're just in it for the aesthetic (my entire point of his modern fanbase).
Jeremiah Scott
are you dense? if we admit that the quality of music can be quantified then "most of it" has to be unremarkable >hurr durr art is subjective cunt
Nicholas Mitchell
It doesn't matter if you think there's no "reason" to remember it. Bowie's an icon and his music will be remembered anyway. >the only other reason would be if you're just in it for the aesthetic You mean listening to it because you like the way it sounds? That's why people listen to music at all. I'm 24, it's certainly not nostalgic to me. I just like it. You have no reason to like it, that's fine. Doesn't mean no one does.
Christian Ross
Nobody really cares about Bowie's aesthetic apart from a few tumblr fangirls who paint a lightning bolt on their face and say they're Ziggy, even though it's Aladdin Sane.
Apart from his 80s albums his music wasn't unremarkable pop at all, he did drum n bass, jungle, industrial, electronic, jazz, soul, glam, ambient etc
Connor Turner
>words are somehow less descriptive than specialized notation used only by guitarists
Kayden Myers
>Nobody really cares about Bowie's aesthetic
Hudson Green
Most of it? I guess in the grand scale of all music, sure. But to say that a household name like Bowie is unremarkable is plain wrong. Unless art is subjective.
