In the latest issue of Interview, Elton John tells Ingrid Sischy, "The Internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating other stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records - which is sometimes okay, but it doesn't bode well for long-term artistic vision. It's just a means to an end. Here we're talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music, and that's not going to happen with people blogging on the Internet. I mean, get out there. Communicate. Go be with people and talk to people. . . . Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the Internet. Let's get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home blogging." Thoughts?
This week's music video of choice is one born out of the Internet's music movement. It's a second clip for Kanye West's "Can't Tell Me Nothing" - commissioned by West, directed by comedian Zach Galifianakis, starring Galifianakis and Will Oldham. It's an odd, perplexing clip, deemed "WTF-worthy" by MTV. It's a bit of of a nod to West's sufficient fanbase that identifies more with Pitchfork Media than Yo MTV Raps.The scoop: "Kanye's trainer, Harley Pasternak, is a friend of mine," Galifianakis told MTV News, "and he showed Kanye some of my videos. Then Kanye came to a stand-up show of mine and asked me afterwards if I would produce and perform a video for him. I was flying to my farm in North Carolina the next morning [and] I told him that if I could shoot it there, then I would do it. There was no audition. I did whatever I wanted. He told me to just do what I thought would work."
2 comments:
I think that Elton John sounds OLLDDDD. I don't think he gets that the internet has replaced the street, you know ? I don't know what the new rules are, but the old rules are surely dying.
I don't know why Elton John doesn't realize that you can do both. It's not that hard.
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