Aaron and I had a great talk about this. Who is The Man? In the movie, The Man is a woman – the principal of the snobby prep school. That’s a good start. But the man need not even be a person; the man can be a system, like the expectation that the kids will behave and get good grades and play only proper classical music. That’s ultimately what they’re sticking it to. Aaron and I are thinking that maybe this is a key difference between rock music and pop music: rock music is about sticking it to the man, and pop music is about dancing and being in love. Aaron also thinks that rock’s sticking-it-to-the-man shows in the music itself, because it breaks the rules of proper composition and performance: sometimes the singers yell instead of singing beautifully, and sometimes the chords are parallel fifths. Great stuff.
Monday, August 20, 2018
The Man
Somehow none of us had ever seen the movie School of Rock, and when rock band camp came around, it was a must. So much fun!! I love knowing that the kids played all their own instruments, I love how their musicianship is visibly due to their classical training, I love how Jack Black respects their skills while also wanting them to let loose, and I love what he has to say about the nature of rock: that at its heart, it’s about sticking it to The Man.
Aaron and I had a great talk about this. Who is The Man? In the movie, The Man is a woman – the principal of the snobby prep school. That’s a good start. But the man need not even be a person; the man can be a system, like the expectation that the kids will behave and get good grades and play only proper classical music. That’s ultimately what they’re sticking it to. Aaron and I are thinking that maybe this is a key difference between rock music and pop music: rock music is about sticking it to the man, and pop music is about dancing and being in love. Aaron also thinks that rock’s sticking-it-to-the-man shows in the music itself, because it breaks the rules of proper composition and performance: sometimes the singers yell instead of singing beautifully, and sometimes the chords are parallel fifths. Great stuff.
Aaron and I had a great talk about this. Who is The Man? In the movie, The Man is a woman – the principal of the snobby prep school. That’s a good start. But the man need not even be a person; the man can be a system, like the expectation that the kids will behave and get good grades and play only proper classical music. That’s ultimately what they’re sticking it to. Aaron and I are thinking that maybe this is a key difference between rock music and pop music: rock music is about sticking it to the man, and pop music is about dancing and being in love. Aaron also thinks that rock’s sticking-it-to-the-man shows in the music itself, because it breaks the rules of proper composition and performance: sometimes the singers yell instead of singing beautifully, and sometimes the chords are parallel fifths. Great stuff.
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