From Tomas Jirku Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 16:24
From Tomas Jirku Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 16:24
> alt-rock. IMO that's a great thing, because no matter how bad pop hip-hop > gets, at least you can dance to it, whereas with 3rd Eye Blind, there's no > recourse except hiding in a corner. here in canada, alt-rock is much more prevalent than hiphop. thank god. i'm much rather listen to Weezer or Pearl Jam than Mace or TLC. i don't want no "i don't want no scrubs". > I ask because it seems like British hip-hop will never get to be > amazing unless it acquires a mass popularity there. I mean, an artist > here this comment is ridiculous! stylistically, nothing requires mass popularity to be amazing. you obviously need to look deeper to realize that all "amazing" genres exist despite and before mass popularity. maybe you were introduced to techno/IDM by the chemical brothers or prodigy. > or there, sure. But the reason for US hip-hop's continual self- renewal > is that it has so many fans, and thus so many creators. Same way with it is becuase of this that hiphop and techno is so trite and watered down. tomas