jefftheworld wrote:Why are you folks so desperate for chipmusic to be 'taken seriously'? If you make serious music, then it's totally fine for you to present it in a serious way, but why get all anal about what other people are doing?
'Chiptune' isn't exactly a genre of music. If someone did a ska guitar cover of Call me Maybe I don't think the serious classical guitarists out there would get all angry that people weren't taking guitars seriously.
The serious ska fans and artists probably would be annoyed if they don't like pop. Long live Ska! It lives! BTW, I think the classical guitar ship has sailed in regards to prominence in the public popular eye...
That'd be a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the amount of serious guitar work out there. The guitar has been established for centuries as a serious medium. Ukulele is a bit closer to what chiptune probably looks like to the non-initiated/non-invested. The typical 8bit pop covers are a dime a dozen... they are usually better than the originals, but still...
A ska (or any other genre-based) cover of the song would be more interesting to me personally, because I like to see how different tunes can be adapted to different rhythms and aesthetics and genres. (Coincidentally: My ukulele ska cover of chibitechs moe moe kyunstep )
Chiptune covers are interesting, because they can go from the super faithful, to extremely experimental reinterpretation, but it's just a very strange situation, with chiptune being a relatively new less-established medium compared to guitars and pianos and the human voice and stuff. Edit: I think remixes are coolest when they come from the original artist, though. Like Troupe Gammage chiptuning his band SPEAK's song "Carrie".
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BTW: did you know that there was a piano maker who, upon seeing that the guitar was over-taking the keys in popularity, flooded the market with cheap guitars so people would get tired of guitar music and buy more pianos? </irrelevant>