Thought #64 - Deadmau5

This guy and his fan-base would be a good case study for the power of social influence on music choice and its perceived credibility regardless of way the music actually sounds, especially when that sound is so close to one perceived as not credible.

In short, dude sounds like straight 'ump-ts-ump-ts-ump-ts' Dance music, which is generally scoffed at, yet people seem to like to pretend he's something more credible than that.

Maybe that's just post-modernism for you, and that whole self-referential cycle of irony and worn ideas being worn again, making everyone like "oh this is nostalgic; this is a novelty; this is a cultural reference; this is an homage!" It's like the new-wave Grindhouse films; out of context they'd just be high-budget B-movies. That isn't to say I don't like some of those new-wave Grindhouse films, but I don't pretend not to like B-movies either.

Now, I must admit that I copied and pasted the majority of what has been said up to this point from something I said in an e-mail with a dude that reads this blog. I should also probably admit that I probably wouldn't admit that if he didn't read the blog. Wudevvah!