Stephen Fry Speech
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Uploaded by PrudenceNeverPays1 on Jun 2, 2011
Stephen Fry argues against the motion 'This House believes that classical music is irrelevant to today's youth'.
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who won the motion?
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@saladshootavvv Another example, just for fun, Van Gogh. Nobody liked his work while he was alive, maybe one or two people. I agree with you, going for how much a piece of work makes or is made for is a bad argument, and only refuses to acknowledge what the work was about, instead focusing on who liked it.
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@mrfishbowls Philip Glass, you fool.
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@mrfishbowls Philip Glass, you fool.
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@mrfishbowls "Favorited them ironically," now that has to be one of the snobbiest things I've ever read.
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@mrfishbowls Now THAT is snobbish.
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@mrfishbowls Watch the video, man.
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@enjoyyourworries Is the different vocabulary perhaps one of greater quality and artistic worth?
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@saladshootavvv I don't believe 'artistic worth' to be a linear entity, upon which all artists are placed. Yes, the great composers have more artistic worth, in the classical vein, than today's songwriters, but they are using different vocabularies altogether, so comparing them is a little misguided.
In my opinion, popular artists are popular because they make their art (and/or themselves) more relatable to the average consumer (emphasis on 'average consumer') in fresh and interesting ways.
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"For the purpose of getting off your tits, and having sex." Ah Stephen, no one in the world could have said this as brilliantly as you lol.
ExaggeratedCool 2 months ago 9
@enjoyyourworries Oh please, by your mentality Kinkade is more beautiful than Monet, Tom Clancy has more artistic worth than Thoreau, and Transformers 3 was a brilliant movie because it made millions. The populist argument is a cop-out and it avoids any real discussion by disregarding the art and only looking at the popular consumption of it. Schubert was hardly known in his time, so to you Rihanna would be a more valuable artist. Fuck off, I find this mentality offensive.
saladshootavvv 4 weeks ago 7