> > > People of every era have different ideas of what is painfully corny.
>
> While there is some truth in this statement, it is not one that can or
> cannot be proven undisputedly in regard to our discussion. However, I
> surely have doubts that the greatest musical minds of our civilization,
> having created works which have survived their own natural time and place,
> would have produced works that could have ever come across to the
> audiences of their day or this one as 'corny'.
How do you ( Listers ) define corny? Trite, too simple, mawkish?
A friend of mine defines that as everything that is simple in music ( by
that he means easily executed ) and/or has arrangements with
'overly'-pleasant timbre ( like Kenny G, for instance ). BTW, He considers
the piano timbre as 'overly'-pleasant by nature, therefore, unescapably
corny. Don't ask me what he would say about complex music on the piano!
I agree about the arrangement ( but I like the piano ) and I'd add the
lyrics ( the more unpoetic- or pseudo-poetic- the closer to the corny
paradise ).
Using the categories above, my friend would consider Nirvana and Barbra
Streisand, for instance, as corny, while I'd put Streisand only on my corny
list.
Maybe, though, there's no real corny feature but a 'corny gestalt'.
Bye,
Caio Rossi
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