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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: theinevitable on October 31, 2008, 06:08:29 pm
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There is a struggle going on in my brain.
On the one hand, I am reading interviews with this lady, and she seems so great. She talks about how she didn't know what she wanted to do until one day, she decided she wanted to make music. How she spent half a dozen hours practicing guitar every day until she could play the kind of thing she wanted to play. How her friends and family told her she was wasting her time.
And now she makes these weird, cute songs with bizarre guitar parts. She is adorable on stage, as she seems to be paying incredibly close attention to her guitar playing (and rightly so) while trying to sing as well. She seemed very nervous. These are all things that are important to me. I am really into the idea of like... people devoting tons of time to something that is maybe really weird and idiosyncratic, but it comes out the way it is in their brain. "I spent years playing the guitar in obscurity so that I could make the exact weird songs I want to make" is the story that I want to hear.
At the same time, I don't really like any of her songs (maybe one?), and I find the two-handed-tapping guitar thing incredibly boring. I think that because of its flashy looks, people assume it's really hard and complicated and awesome, when actually... its just kind of a weird way to play guitar. Plus, she is too pretty to have been as much of an outcast-loser as she claims.
Also I feel like maybe the reason people like her is that they think it's novel that a cute woman can play guitar well.
Anyway. (http://krs5rc.com/krs/bands/marniestern/audio/Transformer.mp3)
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The first 10 seconds of that song have been THUNDERSTRUCK.
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I haven't listened to this yet and can't from where I am right this second, but the description sounds alot like Kaki King, who is pretty good.
Kaki King has alot of amazing instrumental tracks, but I find her vocal songs a little dull. Her vocal melodies felt a little flat while her guitar melodies were mad vivid. Also the tapping.
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The first 10 seconds of that song have been THUNDERSTRUCK.
Ha ha.