So You Think You Can WTF?
Winning the Pulitzer Prize seems to have... opened certain doors, shall we say, for a certain composer of head-banging music. Via Loyal Reader Grrg, who suggests that this was not quite as good as the Meredith Monk singoff on American Idol.
Labels: reality television, Reich
posted by Dan Johnson at
11:50 PM
11 Comments:
very pathetic - and a little aggressive.
Someone's getting a nice big ASCAP check next January!
Is it weird that this somehow gives me hope for popular culture?
finally the music makes SENSE
Wow, can Reich sue for this? Words just fail to describe this.
Can Steve Reich *sue* people for dancing to his music on teevee?
Um, no. Jesus. People need to chill.
Also: what Zach said.
Well, some music just is not suitable for dance. Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OwdlKiB_ro
Arvo Part is great, the dancers are decent, but the two just don't seem to jive.
Dunno—ACME, I think that Pärt dance piece would look a lot better without those edits in the YouTube version. It actually seems pretty awesome to me, if only the video and audio were synch'd.
And Reich has been the basis of some really excellent dance pieces (e.g.); it's just THIS dance piece that is terrible. And who are these JUDGES, jeezus.
I forgot to note the paradox here: everybody's least favorite Steve Reich piece (esp. Steve Reich's?) is now sure to be, by default, the world's most popular Steve Reich piece.
word, dan. i hate that by-default phenomenon. "pervasive" in pop culture often has more impact than "good".
How could you ever be sour about Steve Reich on prime-time TV?? Ease up peeps!
why such the negativity and pessimism from certain people here?? new music was heard on a prime time television show which is right smack in the middle of mainstream popular culture...and the audience didn't run out or boo! we should remember to be happy when light is shed on living composers' music in popular culture. the more exposure, the better!
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