I gotta get this off my chest: Electro swing
Jan 19, 2020 23:30:16 GMT 10
Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2020 23:30:16 GMT 10
I'm sorry, but I can't stand electro swing. It's not that I hate the sound of it necessarily, it's fine, I guess. My problem with it is the fact that it's supposed to be a throwback to 1920s and '30s swing jazz.
Normally, I don't care if a genre of music is nostalgic in that way, and in fact I often give music a lot more leeway in that regard than, say, movies that try to evoke earlier eras like the '80s or '90s. But the problem is electro swing sounds virtually nothing like the genre it purports to emulate, not even a bit. I do listen to bands like Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and the like - I mean, these are actual famous swing jazz bands, the things people would've been listening to in these eras and even a little later - this is the sound of swing jazz.
But then you take any old electro swing song and see how it compares:
My problem with it isn't necessarily that it sounds different from swing jazz, but rather that electro swing is a genre that purports to play tribute to swing jazz but actually sounds nearly nothing like it. What bothers me is it sounds like a tribute to swing jazz by someone who has never actually heard a swing jazz song. As a result, it's almost as if they're making music that sounds like what someone who has no familiarity with the source material might think it sounds like, based on some cartoonish clichés and misconceptions about the era.
It's like they figure nobody else has listened to it so nobody will know the difference, right? It comes off as sleazy and cheap.
Sorry, rant over. Thanks for listening.
Normally, I don't care if a genre of music is nostalgic in that way, and in fact I often give music a lot more leeway in that regard than, say, movies that try to evoke earlier eras like the '80s or '90s. But the problem is electro swing sounds virtually nothing like the genre it purports to emulate, not even a bit. I do listen to bands like Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and the like - I mean, these are actual famous swing jazz bands, the things people would've been listening to in these eras and even a little later - this is the sound of swing jazz.
But then you take any old electro swing song and see how it compares:
My problem with it isn't necessarily that it sounds different from swing jazz, but rather that electro swing is a genre that purports to play tribute to swing jazz but actually sounds nearly nothing like it. What bothers me is it sounds like a tribute to swing jazz by someone who has never actually heard a swing jazz song. As a result, it's almost as if they're making music that sounds like what someone who has no familiarity with the source material might think it sounds like, based on some cartoonish clichés and misconceptions about the era.
It's like they figure nobody else has listened to it so nobody will know the difference, right? It comes off as sleazy and cheap.
Sorry, rant over. Thanks for listening.
