All work and no play

First: Check out this hip-hop dude encouraging you to "Don’t Copy that Floppy" (I’m sure all his street-cred was lost in making this video). But even though we don’t use floppies any more, as a metaphor for today’s file-sharing and music ripping, the message is just as important today as it was back then.

Second: Check out Mr. T talking about his Mama in the heart-warming and apparently deep-felt: "Treat your Mama right".

Third: Delete all your free media files and phone home.

Pop music and popular culture is an important cultural factor these days. It is a phenomenon of the masses – defined by virtue of the number of people that hear, see, read og talk about it.

Popular culture changes over time. It’s about trends, some short and other longer-lived, but always changing.

But what makes a hit, a great song, or a great band?

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This dude 50 Cent sometimes sound more like a cynical record company executive than an artist with artistic integrity. In this article: Dagbladet – fredag: mannen med ni liv he explains how he, in the “How to rob” single purposly wrote his rhymes just to draw attention to his first album release a few years ago.

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I had my second great music festival moment (this year) this weekend at Øyafestivalen. It started in the morning with the great news that my girlfriend got accepted at SFGD. And it continued in the afternoon by enjoying a beer on the balcony, walking down to the festival area (just a ten-minute walk), in great weather, buying a beer (at not too outrageous prices!) and enjoying the great music under a perfect summer night, with temperatures in the very high twenties (that’s 80F), which isn’t all that common here in Norway. So this weekend’s been great. Looking forward to the next year’s festival (which is probably, due to the success of this year’s festival) going to be extended one day.

The cover story in the up-coming edition of Der Spiegel is about explaining music in scientific terms. The goal is to find out what music really is, and why we react to music the way that we do.

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