Matt7

Well, you also haven't read very well because I don't consider complex music necessarily a matter of quality... anyway, from...

You see that you didn't read well, did you? I don't only consider the technical execution for heaven's sake!!!!!! I quote you the phrase: "But be careful, when I say technique I don't only mean technical execution, so I'm not expecting an artist to blast my ears with super fast solos, etc. For technique, I mean a serious approach, a combination of things that make an artist complete: we need compositional, performative, theoretical technique, etc..."
So, how do we deal with that? And, by the way, I'm not talking about the lyrics... which can be as poetic as we want... but about the music, damn it!!!!! ;)

Alright.. since the only way you have to speak is by judging everything that is different from what you think as nonsense.. I won’t talk.. you also show that you don’t know how to read and understand what I wrote.. anyway.. if you want, you can figure it out on your own... ah.. thanks for saying that my thoughts are nonsense..

as usual perfect. I will try to listen to it.

El Shaddai, it is now widely known and clear that a large part of today’s music is of questionable value. It’s not me saying this, but experts far more “cultured” than I am (not that I consider myself cultured, etc...). What you and I still haven’t clarified is the concept of art, in this case music, since it is the most accessible and easiest form of art to consume. I believe (perhaps you think this is 100% wrong) that there is no art without technique (a phrase that echoes Donato Begotti, one of the leading guitarists and teachers of modern Italian music, a professor at CPM...). But be careful, when I say technique I don’t mean just technical execution, so I’m not expecting an artist to bombard my ears with rapid-fire solos, etc... by technique I mean a seriousness, a set of things that contribute to an artist's completeness: we need compositional, performative, theoretical technique, and so on... If all these "techniques" are applied, then quality art is created, thus GOOD music. This doesn’t negate the fact that sometimes quality can be distant from beauty (ever listened to Ligeti? Berio? Schoenberg? pure art but of difficult assimilation). BEAUTIFUL music moves you, makes you cry or laugh, astonishes you, but in the end, in most cases, especially in today’s commercial music (like Evanescence, for example), we are faced with beautiful products but without any real qualitative content. I don’t mean to say they are musically bad, but that they are easy to conceive and compose with a very limited technical background (I repeat, all kinds of technique). This doesn’t mean that the GOOD and the BEAUTIFUL cannot coexist in music!... there are many bands that create music of very high quality that I also find beautiful, but unfortunately today art is confused with fashion and trends, and an artist is no longer defined by their ability but by how well they can exploit the current trend. I repeat, you can like anyone and I won't dispute that! Of course not, but perhaps now you understand my thoughts better, and maybe I’ll seem less presumptuous to you…!

I don’t decide. From the way you reason, reviews shouldn’t exist either... since anyway no one is capable of judging..!

Tell me where I claimed to consider myself superior to you... the fact that I study music gives me the ability to understand how certain pieces are composed... that’s all... and RIOPETO may be nice, but the quality is lacking.

With what I said before, I obviously didn't want to boast, but to make you understand that, surely it's beautiful music, but to go as far as to call it art!!!!..good music, meaning high quality, technically and compositionally impeccable (not necessarily complex = is another thing). Evanescence makes beautiful, listenable music, but if you go to a music scholar, they would define it as worthless paper.. And it happened to me that, as you say, even Blink makes art for you!!!!! You're right, beauty is subjective, but quality is universal. Only MTV peddles certain music as art (not just Evanescence...).

elshadai, can I tell you something? What makes you say that I have no skills? I’ve been studying music for 11 years, long before your beloved Amy started crooning her worn-out notes... so... the arrogant one here is you, who honestly, in your words, has shown nothing beyond the fact that you like Evanescence... now, since you’re competent, take one of their scores and perform a harmonic and technical analysis for me, let’s see 1) if you can do it 2) if the songs are as difficult as you say.
With permission.

Editors, please, at the beginning of the review, correct that Bevastation to devastation!!!!!
grazzzzzzzie editors, kind and great as always