cellini's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Appeal of Joy Division You know what is probably the most attractive thing about Joy Division? I think that what happens to the successful listener is that he or she applies the inherant sense of great tragedy in most of the songs to his or her own life. And then everything that has gone wrong or seems to have lost it's shine or even simple depression no longer feels like simple shit. It become Great Suffering. Possibly even Great Suffering for Art. It all takes on this sense of grandeur. And of course, suffering for great reasons or in some particularly noble or touching way is much better than simply suffering. That's what it is. It works with music in a way that it doesn't work with, say, painting. I mean, Van Gogh suffered horrible depression as he produced his art and in some way it reflects that but most people can't really immerse themselves in a painting the way that they can is a song or album played over and over again. And most people probably do have to really immerse themselves in an artistic work in order to allow themselves to inhabit it. I'm sure this is all screamingly obvious to everyone else already. Forgive me. 4:20 p.m. - 2009-01-07 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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