> "Chappell Roan"
Just now listened to some of her music,
two of her pieces
Good Luck Babe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKqOmSkGgM&pp=ygUcY2hhcHBlb...
and
Pink Pony Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR3Liudev18&pp=ygUOcGluayBwb...
So, with the definition of art as the
"communication, interpretation of human
experience, emotion" what I saw in those
two pieces was that they were intended for
some teen girls and young women -- single,
lonely, generally afraid of their
circumstances, don't understand what they
see of reality, eager for sex but afraid
of it, lost, i.e., missing any good
cultural, social, or intellectual
foundation for understanding reality or
facing life, ....
So in the music, the costumes and stage
shows are rapidly changing, outrageous,
meaningless, fantasy, scary, i.e., are
communication, interpretation of those
women's experience, emotions, rapidly
changing, outrageous ....
In simple terms, those women have
circumstances that yield strong emotions
that the music communicates.
"Communicates"? Why? As common, to the
audience comfortingly confirms that they
are not alone and instead like many
others.
How could this be? In the past the women
lived in a culture based on strong social,
practical, economic, religious, parenting
forces. Now (1) for millions of those
women the culture is weak or gone and (2)
the Internet permits getting confirming,
reinforcing communication, interpretation
of their scary circumstances from the loss
of the culture.
In short, the music really is
communication, interpretation of the
experience and emotions of those women.
To me it seems that Taylor Swift did much
the same, i.e., similar audience, but
Chappell Roan is stronger, louder, more
outrageous for an audience with stronger
emotions.
As a young man, the teen girls I knew,
right, had the anxieties from their
circumstances but much more constrained
and less scary than now.
The music, for me, a man: Get rid of the
sets, costumes, dancing, and words and
take just the background music (a lot of
drum beating) and the singing. In places,
the singing is pretty good, i.e.,
expressive, but really the singing, as
art, is all nearly the same, that is, the
same vocal content for the same
communication, interpretation of
experience and emotion.
I expect that even the current devoted
audience will soon, a year or so, give up
on the current Chappell Roan -- for a
cruel joke, "A one trick pony.".
From Vivaldi and Bach through Beethoven
and Brahms ... Wagner, Tchaikowsky, ...,
Barber there is a lot of effective
communication, interpretation of a wide
range of experiences, emotions, that is,
really good art.
For level 101, a major key is glad and a
minor key, sad. Then changing keys,
selected chords within keys, pitch,
volume, variety of sounds from the variety
of instruments, combinations, ..., give a
lot more tools for expression than used by
Chappell Roan and, thus, permit a lot more
music, art.
Next, the tools were just means, and Bach,
Wagner, Tchaikowsky, ..., were really good
in the artistic content, that is, again,
communication, interpretation of human
experience emotion.