Comments on: Fembots

By: zara

zara — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:12:09 +0000

True, but if you ever pay attention in your lit classes you’ll find that the Modern period was a specific cultural place in time. TS Eliot and Ezra Pound were the best-known Modernist poets … they, and artists like Picasso, chronicled the breakdown of Victorian civilization and mores before and during the first world war. Anything after the Modern period (I believe it ended before the 2nd world war. Or thereabouts) is considered “postmodern.”

Right now, the latest music is post-postmodern, but they’re going to have to come up with something. Basically calling something p-pm implies that we’re a copy of a copy of the original :D And maybe we are.

By: Icka

Icka — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:24:05 +0000

I am going to make a post-your post-post.

modern

â€¢ adjective 1 relating to the present or to recent times. 2 characterized by or using the most up-to-date techniques or equipment. 3 (in art, architecture, etc.) marked in style or content by a significant departure from traditional values.

â€¢ noun a person who advocates a departure from traditional styles or values.

â€” DERIVATIVES modernity noun modernly adverb modernness noun.

â€” ORIGIN Latin modernus, from modo â€˜just nowâ€™.

So, technically, isn’t the latest music always modern? And in a way, since the present is constantly becoming the past, isn’t all music post-modern? Oh, what a world!

By: zara

zara — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:09:26 +0000

No I can’t, because I was just kidding. I don’t know when something becomes “post” — it just seems to happen. Post-modern comes after the Modern period, but why is it called post-modern? Why not give it its own name (the Confessional period, for instance, ha ha)? And why are we now in the post-postmodern era? It’s like Modernism was the last period of cultural time that meant anything. But I was just kidding about post-folk, unless you consider “folk” as a time period, which I suppose could be the late 19th-early 20th centuries, before the radio began to homogenize everything and make it super-accessible.

By: Leaving Liverpool

Leaving Liverpool — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:22:35 +0000

Uh, I don’t want Icka to held responsible for such a nerdy comment. The above comment is mine.I take full responsibilty.
-A

By: Icka

Icka — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:19:17 +0000

So when does folk become so “post” that it is no longer folk? And what does folk really mean anymore anyway, since most modern folk singers are aping “folk” singers who were aping other “folk” singers (I know the Clancy Bros. no matter how good they were, haven’t been around since 1806) who were aping the original folk singers? Can you answer this question for me, Zara? Or point me to someone who has tried to answer this question.

By: zara

zara — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:02:19 +0000

Luckily you weren’t writing their presskit then! Those guys said their live show was “frenetic.” Which of course is not always a compliment. Heh.

By: James

James — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:19:05 +0000

I saw them at one NxNE at a wonderfully wretched venue that no longer exists (I’d have to check my notes to get an exact date). I was phenomenally unimpressed with their live show at the time. They have improved, but not nearly enough.