Music is not ART.

Hello again dear reader. Now, I'm sure that if you love music as much as I do there is nothing, and I MEAN nothing more irritating and annoying to my ears than so called pop "star's" that use the noun ARTIST...(cue ear bleeding scream.) to describe themselves and in particular their "music". This cuts me to the bone with anger. Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana, (www. Youtube.com) Michael Skinner from the band The Streets, ( MySpace Blogs) Cristina Milian, (MySpace pop-up page header) to name a recent few, and as recently as last night on the television (12/11/2008 Channel 4) there is a trailer for a programme on the life of the late Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana...The trailer in rather hushed and somber reverential tone's speak's of the singer as the "ARTIST" Kurt Cobain. These people are "Recording artiste's" and NOTHING more than that...

They are "singer's and "dancer's", and how they can compare themselves to the likes of Rembrandt, Piccaso or Van Goch makes my blood boil...There is no question these individual's were true artist's, and the fact that they could create and compose and capture an emotional intense perspective on human experience is, shall we say, peerless. You can include your own choice here at this juncture, dear reader. I myself do not, and will not say, that this artist is better than that one, far from it. If we cannot appreciate someone's obvious skill (even if you lay brick's, or, if you are a plumber) and talent, then you are truly are a snob! This is not a new phenomena, far from it. Madonna, Sting, even Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin call themselves an artist when the obviously are not. As for Hirst and Emin they are nothing more than thieves in the house of love. Throughout the centuries charlatans have done as they do and history, either today or the next would be nothing without their existence after all...

Music as art? I don't think so. If anything, all that is required from music is to make human beings Dream. Imagine, if you will, a titan of music such as Mozart sitting at his desk composing his phrases and delicate structures, all he wanted to do was transport a series of musical picture's with his chosen keys and chords and deliver the said pictures to the mind of the listener, to deliver... THE DREAM OF IMAGINATION nothing more. He did not possess the skills of a painter, or, the hands of a sculpture, or, for that matter a state of the art recording studio, much like the studios at Industrial Light And Magic owned by George Lucas at Marin County in San Francisco. (imagine this GENIUS there today...Wonderful) The invention of the film camera at its conception made it far easier for THE DREAM OF IMAGINATION to become a reality on the screen. One of the human senses heightened at the expense of another, But, as I have said music is not art, it does not possess the solidity of marble or bronze or wood that a piece of sculpture contains. The materials one uses as a painter, the brush, the ink, the fingers, the rag, the oils, are REAL. These are the tools to capture and contain the true emotional power that only real art can deliver. Music is not art...How can a dream become so..?