jan 2012

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Monikangkana
Guwahati India

“so johnlennonesque!”

Rsevchuk

“i love your music”

Ciara Bennet
Gender: Female
United States

How to Change Your Life with Music
(if you're part of the 60%)

60% of the visitors to PopMusic.com have searched for something like "pop music". 40% are returning...

This message is for the 60%. You just googled "pop music". (If you returned, you're probably looking for Au§tin's latest exploits - go here and here)

Okay (for the 60%) - Why did you google pop music? "Pop music" used to refer to music that was popular. It became popular because it was good. People heard it, disc jockeys heard it, people liked it, it spread around the world.

Today, cynical corporations like Sony have so much power that they suppress real music, made by real people, as it doesn't serve their interests (you can't manufacture it, reliably, like chocolate chip cookies). Instead, they dish up contrived, fake "music" that isn't really, even, music. Max Martin (who produced and wrote everything from Britney Spears' Oh Baby Baby to Katy Perry's Last Friday Night is depressed and borderline suicidal (well, everyone in Sweden is - it's always dark...!) - because his talent - and he's a genius, of sorts - is suppressed by market forces. He's forced to be an obedient servant to the corporations who pay him, rather than making....real music.

Of course, there aren't, really, market forces...there's just you. (And others, but let's deal with you...)

Maybe you're a girl, and you've got a crush on...whoever the person after Justin Bieber is/will be.

Maybe you're a guy, and you just like the infectiously catchy beat of...whatever...

That's great...that's fine...but consider: Do you know what "music" even means?

"Music" is derived from the word "muse". These were greek...um...mythical things...like..oh, who knows. Look it up! The point is...music is supposed to be something inspired...by the spirit of the world, by emotion, by...something beautiful and true. Hearts, souls, spirits. Here is an example of someone who makes "music" - inspired by the muses….

But the truth is, people like Max Martin - who hates himself for it, we've been told - sit around all day trying to...fake it. I mean, you do it long enough...you know the right chords, you kind of think "What is so brainless and stupid that it will please disc jockeys and radio stations around the world".

That's not music.

PopMusic.com, however, is dedicated to one thing. Making music - real music - popular. Making pop music be popular, yet also be real music. Made from people's hearts, souls, etc. So...here are some thoughts from Au§tin, the most popular artiste (sic - artiste is a performing arist!) in PopMusic.com's history, with over 5 million views/likes/comments/fans (combined). The Beatles, the most popular pop group in history, only sold 100 million albums. Arguably, then, Au§tin is 5% as popular as The Beatles (people don't buy albums anymore, so you can't really do a 1:1 comparison!) All through the power of the magic, really, that hundreds of thousands of people, every hour, google "pop music".

Please help make pop music...um...be music again! thanx...join now!

please connect with FB (or gmail etc.) for free, cool music from Au§tin- thanx

“ Austin Washington love youuuuu”

Sevaloli
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Sign: Capricorn
Washington DC, United States

"you are cool"

Daliza
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Sign: Aquarius
fl Falkland Island

“ fucking sucks ” [Austin: Can't win 'em all! But, then, she's Gemini, maybe she'll change her mind. And, um, I don't think that's her real pic! :D]

Cassandra
Gender: Female
Age: 13
Sign: Gemini
Rockville, CT, United States

“this song is cool”

mizzghetto
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Sign: Capricorn
Ha9 9ej, United Kingdom

Hi my name is elise and im 11 years old. i think you guyz are so talented and you rock! i hope you guyz make a cd so i can buy it and listen to it everyday! bye peace out~ELISE~

- Elise

Your music really made me think. I've been in some trouble, and haven't been able to decide what to do. After listening to Falling Out of Time it clicked. I know what to do! Thank you so much!

I'll be one of the first to buy your CD's!

Love and Cookies,

- dimples

Austin rulez! i think u r tottally cool!! work on your album and release it soon!!

i really like your music! put more on this site i will visit it often now !

- webSURFER

Can I have an autograph? You guys are going to big!

- Sarah

january/february, 2012 Is this Pop Music? And if it is, should I be ashamed of it? by AW

Hi, it's Austin. I've been told that, because I'm supposed to be a "serious" writer now (as of the last few months!), or my ideas are meant to be important or something (I've just been published in a magazine advising business leaders on morality, and in a learned journal advising educational leaders to model their programmes on my experience at Oxford University [link coming]), that it is beneath my dignity to make simplistic "pop" music.

But aren't all great ideas simple? "Do unto others..." "Stay out of foreign entanglements..." "Da dooh ron ron..." (well, maybe not that last one)

I don't want to be a pop singer or pop star (I just happen to be friends with the owner of this great domain! PopMusic.com!) I would love to perform my songs sometimes at some huge music festivals in front of hundreds of thousands of people, but can't imagine doing so in front of fewer than that, and would have no patience with having a "tour" or selling tickets - I just couldn't care less...) The argument (well, words) dilettante and hobby come to mind, but if you look at the story of, say, this song you can see I don't subjectively experience the music I make that way (as a hobby) - I find music life-changing, and almost life-saving. I learned to read music before English. In the summers, when I was staying at George Washington's brother's house (still in the family) and everyone else was out at the pool, I'd be inside - like, I was four years old - banging on the piano. Making stuff up. Composing music? Does that make me a dilettante? I don't think so....but what do I know?!

To me, music is as important as writing, or thinking, or speaking, or whatever supposedly serious things I'm known for. It's even more vital to me, in some ways. Making music changes my feelings about the universe, my life, and the world, when I do it. "But so what?" you might ask. Well, people have told me it's changed their lives (or at least changed a bad day to a good one, or even helped make an important decision), too. So, that's why I give it away to others. And, anyway, I can't not make it.

But because popular music and songs are associated with people like Justin Bieber and John Lennon (great people with great hearts, no doubt, but small brains - or, at least, people who make music associated with an audience who can't genuinely appreciate "great" things. That's what my friend said, actually - it's in response to that that I'm writing all this! It sounds snobbish of her, I know, but there is a difference between "Baby Baby" and even "Imagine" compared to, say, something by Tchaikovsky. If you can't accept that, that's fine, but just stop here because you'll disagree with all of this...anyway, I'm not sure I agree, myself - there is great beauty in simplicity, after all - I just made this page because my friend chastised me for half an hour, saying all this music is beneath my supposed dignity. Whatever.)

My overall point being - I've been told to be embarrassed that I make songs like this, or that I really have to at least do it under a pseudonym, to hide that it's me doing it, because my ideas, my principles, my "career" as an author and purveyor of thoughts and ideals to supposedly change the world will be damaged, irrevocably, by association with something as simple as a (simple) song.

Thoughts...?

POLL: A - This is idle, stupid, twaddle. B. You are a great genius - kudos. C WTF?!?

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kristoffer
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Sign: Libra
Philippines

"(...)I'm sure you will find a number 1 hit one day!”

Melody
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Sign: Libra
Allston, MA

WOW! I just heard that song and-WOW!- it really moved me. I think you guys are fab! Don't change ANYthing! Keep up the fanTAStic work, sugar!

P.S. If you ever go on tour, pleeeeaaaaaassse try to make it to Georgia, honey!

Love and kisses!

- Lynda

the more i listen the more i like!! :)

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