What Noise Is Not.

[banned]

I've said already that, while noise may not be popular (it got more mainstream attention in the 90's than it does now, barring that adult swim noise compilation), it's definitely considered passe with the stereotypical millennial, Internet-meme-as-legitimate-social-commentary crowd. "The children are the future", and everything seems to be a joke with them. Nothing surprises most "hip" and "with-it" people anymore. It's hard to deny that they do make up the market share of today's pop-cultural consumption-defecation cycle. For instance, I got invited to a co-workers Superbowl party, and every ad I saw during was just a bunch of 80's/90's references trying to pander to exactly this crowd. Ultimately, depending on your definition of the word "popular", noise could be considered popular* indeed, if only because "NOISE" in its most distilled, meme-cliche sense, is another discarded Internet joke that most "people today" recognize on some level, regardless of their sympathies.

It's very difficult for me to understand who I am supposed to be trying to relate to or communicate with authentically where "noise" or "music" as I render them are concerned either way. That is, beyond taking willing participants along for the ride. Their reasons are their own. I don't really care. If they're into it, fine. If they're just posing or having a laugh, that is fine too. I've said before as well that what I do is ultimately a crude folk/outsider form of expression (in using what limited cognitive assets are available to me) at its highest level, and a kind of pornography at its most base level. It's okay with me not to rationalize it or try to elevate it beyond it's most base level. Because "appreciation of noise" is a very base thing. It tingles in my large head the way the sight of a [censored description of something vulgar here] tingles in my little head. That's always been the meat of it, no pun intended. Because it feels good in my ears and in my head, just like it did when I was little, to hear gravel crunching under the tires on our long, pebble driveway. I think everything else is secondary, and a way of coming to terms with my own limitations. It's not for any of you, but I'll gladly take your cash for it.

*Popular:
2. (of cultural activities or products) intended for or suited to the taste, understanding, or means of the general public rather than specialists or intellectuals.
"the popular press"
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"Noise" has not been a "specialist" enterprise since the late 70's at least.

good post! i don't have any issues with young people, but it often comes off like ironic appreciation of what everyone else is doing, and literal XYZ. that's fine, i'm just not the sort to make a pretense of fitting in

[banned]

you know the type tho -- everything's a joke except their own popularity.

serves me right for putting up with it

[WhiteWarlock]

well this thread isn't "LOCKED" yet.... slackers

[RUBBISH]

well this thread isn't "LOCKED" yet.... slackers

Motherfricker ill type in all caps at you! And commumism at you.

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On a side note I just spent the last several hours hanging out with the under 30 years old hillbilly neighbors..that was fun and enlightening. They didn't get the noise video I showed them but the country rap was ok...it fit the scene.

[penis man]

Hipster 'wave' shit with reverb vocals and lofi beats...
THAT SHIT IT NOT NOISE