Art that is very emotional, does not endure. No, I have used the wrong word- not emotional, but sentimental, sentimentality in art is poisonous, it evades actually confronting emotions. Like Yanni’s compositions and Sarah McLaughlin songs and anything you can buy at Precious Thoughts. You come across them the first time and it makes you rise up and think- yes, that’s how I feel! After a while, you realize that you have moved on, those feelings are now mingling with the days in between and the thoughts in between and you feel something else. But there are no songs about these feelings in between, so you keep listening to the same ones- about the banalities of anger and hurt, or about how you’ll find the one, about how you’ll get over him, about how you’re stronger now or all about love, all entirely rubbish. I want a pop artist that talks about the in between, about the limbo feelings. Because that’s what an emotional nature actually carries around- a multitude of limbo feelings that are constantly mixing and mingling into each other, like a sea that’s fed by a hundred rivers.
Looks like pop culture is to crude to represent your state of mind. You are maturing.
ReplyDeleteThe mind constantly lives in a state of Limbo. Unfortunately apart from mashups there exists very little by way of music or anything else that best describes that state. Because it is a passive commonplace feeling. Not enough fodder for making a grand gesture through a song or art. Usually intensity of feeling is the core there.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you with your innate ability to turn the mundane into the exotic could find a way to express that.
And here's another train of thought - isn't that why art exists? To pull us out of limbo? to put a different unilateral perspective on things? Make us see past the mundane? Art here ofcourse being used highly generically covering multiple forms - dance, drama, music, painting, etc.