While the replacement of solo instrumentation for ‘Bass Drops’ and Synthesizers is admittedly horrific, it does say something about the modern-day music industry and the way people listen to music. Where once, technical skill and creativity was something that people praised, now it’s left in the shadow of studio-manufactured sound that’s not created by a band with guitars and drums, but by a well-paid executive using algorithms and documented studies. This sound, created through equations and sung by people who are little more than familiar faces, dominates Pop radio. It’s something I affectionately call ‘Formula Pop’, a style of music that is neither an artistic expression nor necessity
Category: Reviews
Ant-Man (2015) – Review
One of the things setting the Marvel Studio movies apart from the DC films is their willingness to make fun and exciting movies with their lesser known heroes.
Battlestar Galactica: The Magnificent Warriors – Review
In The Magnificent Warriors we find writer/creator Glen A. Larson still lifting elements from popular movies, and in this case it’s back to westerns with a lame rip-off of The Magnificent Seven.
Crossroads of Twilight – Robert Jordan: Book Review
Warning: There will be spoilers; one cannot speak of Crossroads of Twilight without referencing the climax of Winter’s Heart.
Parallels (2015) – Review
The idea of a “multiverse” is certainly nothing new; we’ve seen countless movies and books about alternate Earths and parallel universes, but in Parallels, a movie directed by Christopher Leone and from a story by Leone and Laura Harkcom, we are given a nice science fiction mystery that raises a lot of questions.