2 hit wonder
Junior Member
Lol, Donny and Marie.
What makes music cheesy?
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Lol, Donny and Marie.
No Way Jose
Silver Member
After watching all the videos in this thread, I have no idea what cheesy means anymore.
IBitePrettyHard
Senior Member
end Goat
Active Member
In a lot of these responses "cheese" seems to be lyrically driven. It also seems to me that solos, arrangements, choreography, and even setting/context can be cheesy.
Let's be clear, too, that a significant part of this is subjective assessment - a lot of popular things are cheesy or become that way when they fail the test of time. I don't think most would argue that the masses are aesthetic champions, often things become cheesier once they become popularized and hence caricaturized in subsequent iterations.
Some of the most lucrative places for musicians to play, one might argue, are pretty cheesy - local bars, weddings, churches, corporate events, et cetera.
"Cheese" is probably distinct from being "objectively bad" (a loaded topic in itself), because the subjective concept of "taste" is central to the assessment, the violation of taste, perhaps in the manner outlined by previous posters, MAY make something "cheesy", but the specific WAY taste is violated is central here, I reckon. Many folks love music they fully acknowledge to be cheesy, sometimes BECAUSE it's cheesy. "Irony" then enters the chat...
Let's be clear, too, that a significant part of this is subjective assessment - a lot of popular things are cheesy or become that way when they fail the test of time. I don't think most would argue that the masses are aesthetic champions, often things become cheesier once they become popularized and hence caricaturized in subsequent iterations.
Some of the most lucrative places for musicians to play, one might argue, are pretty cheesy - local bars, weddings, churches, corporate events, et cetera.
"Cheese" is probably distinct from being "objectively bad" (a loaded topic in itself), because the subjective concept of "taste" is central to the assessment, the violation of taste, perhaps in the manner outlined by previous posters, MAY make something "cheesy", but the specific WAY taste is violated is central here, I reckon. Many folks love music they fully acknowledge to be cheesy, sometimes BECAUSE it's cheesy. "Irony" then enters the chat...
jda
Diamond Member
Leave Marie out of it k?
Well maybe it's Cheese that has a certain sense of Humor and Cheese that doesn't know it's being laughed at
this (considered "Avant Gard Jazz" (??! in above link
I think would be Humor cheese and it reached no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 of 1966
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The difference being, he's deliberately cheesy.
All the way to the bank.
And now he's an EGGGGG
Emmy & five Grammy's
Coryplaysdrums
New Member
For me, it's artificiality in the Artist. You can tell when an Artist is doing something they don't believe in, or are doing for superficial reasons like following trends or trying to cash in on what's currently popular. Basically anything that panders to an audience without substance is cheesy to me.
2 hit wonder
Junior Member
I didn't say Donny and Marie. I just laffed about someone saying it.
I also didn't say that some genres of music are more easily recognized for using formula writing for songs than others. And may have more predictable lyrics and themes equated with projecting a paper cutout, hat rack persona. Nobody can say it was me who said that. /wink
But Junior Brown ain't no clown.
I also didn't say that some genres of music are more easily recognized for using formula writing for songs than others. And may have more predictable lyrics and themes equated with projecting a paper cutout, hat rack persona. Nobody can say it was me who said that. /wink
But Junior Brown ain't no clown.
JimmyM
Diamond Member
I think I’m going with the idea that deliberately cheesy isn’t cheesy. I think it implies a certain cluelessness that, as JDA said, isn’t in on the joke, and Al clearly is.
PorkPieGuy
Platinum Member
I'm not sure how to define it, but I immediately thought of the Lawrence Welk show (I used to watch it on PBS every Saturday night about 15 years ago when my kids were little because they loved it.).
We NEED cheesy music though. Life can't be serious all of the time.
We NEED cheesy music though. Life can't be serious all of the time.
jda
Diamond Member
right, it's satire
Oh would I love to do some satire : )
2 hit wonder
Junior Member
That drum video of the guy with 2 towers of cymbals. Total cheese fest.
criz p. critter
Silver Member
Cheesy is as cheesy does.
classikdrummr
Well-known Member
Anything Produced by David Foster that has that horrible fake sounding Piano( 80's era Chicago for example) Truly Cringe worthy.
2 hit wonder
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doggyd69b
Platinum Member
Pretty much in the eye of the beholder.