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Chargement... Elliott Smith's XO (33 1/3 series)par Matthew Lemay
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A lot about the words, very little about the music. Still, there's quite some digging done re. the words and different versions of the lyrics. ( ) Not a bio of either the album XO or Elliott Smith, rather an exploration of how the public persona of Elliott Smith was crafted following a readily available template, yet authored by no one person, following Smith's Oscar-nominated "Miss Misery" and the idea of "weepy sad bastard music". This persona is largely disputed not only by Smith's songs, but by Smith's work rate and professionalism, and generally in the fact his talent was fashioned as much from intent and preparation as by anything innate. LeMay demonstrates this ably enough, considering in detail Smith's songcraft and his professional life, addressing aspects of his personal life primarily to discuss how the public persona exaggerates and distorts them. LeMay argues in the first part of the essay that the emotional content of Smith's songs (especially lyrically) increases as the specific autobiographical elements are removed. That is, as Smith refines the structure and lyric of a song (analysed across various performances both live and in studio), it becomes less about a specific situation or experience, yet the emotion is enhanced. Also, analysis of Smith's evolution as a songwriter is linked to evidence in specific songs, recorded for or at the time of XO sessions. suggests Smith is not a folk / singer-songwriter. Smith is quoted as saying folk is an aesthetic choice usually linked to a single moral in a song, and his own songs are deliberately not like that. The second part of the essay looks at the "cultural construct" of Smith and how it informs reception of XO and Smith generally. // Look into Negus & Pickering, Creativity, Creation, And Cultural Value; posits a "myth of creativity" ... that "people do not -- as artists, writers, musicians -- have some pre-formed condition that they then seek to express in an art form and communicate to others. The contours and characteristics of experience are given meaning and value through the process of expression and communication" . These ideas link to definition of genre as "a series of culturally agreed upon expectations" which preclude some motivations or content, e.g. pastiche artists like Beck are not expected to be emotionally confessionalist. [108] aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith's XO should not be one of them. Smith's 1998 major label debut defies the "tortured singer-songwriter" stereotype, and takes up this defiance as a central theme. At a time when Smith was being groomed for a particular (and particularly condescending) brand of stardom, he produced a record that eviscerated one of the central assumptions of singersongwriterdom: that pain is beautiful. XO insists that romanticizing personal tragedy can only leave you "deaf and dumb and done." And it backs up this claim with some of the most artful and intelligent music of its day. Matthew LeMay writes an original take on a widely beloved album, steering clear of the sensationalist suicide angles that have dogged most analysis of Elliott Smith's extraordinary work. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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