#Popular music

[rosiexjo]

Girltober Day Twenty: Florence + the Machine

[rhapsodynew]

Behind the scenes of Sergeant Pepper.

What would they do with modern capabilities?! The guys were super creative and talented! 😃

[stone-cold-groove]

Ringos.

[power-chords]

[citizenscreen]

“American Bandstand" began broadcasting nationally #OnThisDay in 1957.

The show that evolved into "American Bandstand" began on Philadelphia’s WFIL-TV in 1952. Dick Clark took over as host in the summer of 1956 and pushed for a national audience.

[wiserebeltiger]

Anyone else feeling this lately?

[grandboute]

Alan Stivell - Chemins de terre (1973)

[jadeseadragon]

British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull with her boyfriend, Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, c. 1966 to 1970.

AFP/AFP

[victusinveritas]

Mapping Europe’s Most Successful Music Artists by Country.

[rosiexjo]

Girltober Day Twenty Six: Aurora

[rhapsodynew]

Autumn is beautiful...The golden autumn has come!

[drawgirl103pink]

Rottmnt Leo ai cover~Life Less Ordinary by Carbon Leaf

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Tin Pan Alley hit: this sheet music is for the song “Someone Is Losin’ Susan" by Roy Turk and George W. Meyer. It was published by Henry Waterson, Inc. in 1926. The cover features an inset image of Nita Bernard, who introduced the song. The cover art was by artist and designer Albert Wilfred Barbelle (1887-1957). With a prolific career spanning over forty years, Barbelle created numerous works of cover art for sheet music and albums.

Photo: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

[emilyscastlevania]

Missing @thebandghostofficial 🧛🏻‍♂️

[wiserebeltiger]

The amount of trauma people have gone through with the pandemic, has caused people to realize that “light entertainment” (TV, blockbuster movies) won’t cut it. People have gone through some serious shit. They demand poetry, dense novels, and religious texts, to give them the insight and emotional support they need just to survive and not have a mental breakdown, the way the world is today.

A culture entirely based on DISTRACTION and ESCAPISM simply will not do.

People understand the psychology now. How Hollywood diverts. Among other functions.

We drop the old out of ballance “narcotics is the biggest thing” American culture, not out of moral injunction but out of necessity. We are going crazy and starving otherwise.

One reason TV is in decline, and seems destined to become no longer prestige, is that even the best prestige TV will not give you enough substance. Trying to shunt some intellect into a commercial medium “a little spectacle a little substance” is a mixture that no longer works. TV will just be TV. Art will just be art. We want the full thing, unadulterated. Well, maybe a little adulterated.

In this sense, the media landscape is starting to resemble the 1930s: I go to my movies for escapism (mostly), and I go to my “art” for the depth, substance, social commentary, harsh reality.