Tati The Sentinel
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Posted: Oct. 15 2005, 16:07 |
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| Quote (Ian Too @ Oct. 15 2005, 10:25) | | The point of all this is that Mike always wanted to be liked, but not by the people he finds attracted to his music. He wants to be belle of the ball and focus of adulation, not an awkward outsider, liked by awkward outsiders. This is why he has repeatedly compromised his music; adopting new formats and then styles to try and fit in. |
I think that using new formats in Mike's case isn't to be popular outside his fanbase at all,it's a way not to be dated on his own past, especially if your past is consider ab fab and classic. He's not the type of artist that is going to act like Yes nowadays,working on the very same stuff they did in the 70's,the very ol' boring thing.
I've never considered Mike's music as hugely popular like Pink Floyd,Yes,Genesis,all those prog artists from the 70's. It has got something that most people can't get into,I really don't know how to describe it in words. As well as his music,his persona is above average,and to understand his music,even the simple ones,are not for most people,IMHO.
When he says he don't listen at all to current music, I don't believe it, since I've read some interviews that he does said he was taking a look on what's on the music scene(eg, a interview that was on MO.com about Maestro and he said he was listening to BBC Radio 1 when it's playing dance music and he liked the tunes).He listens to it, get some ideas he finds interesting and create tunes based on that in a mikeoldfieldian way.That's it.
I personally feel that in the last few years, he had lots of moments to be Michael Gordon Oldfield and has left Mike Oldfield in hibernaculum mode on...living the life like he always wanted to live,as a normal person like each one of us here.But he's a normal person,but what he does for a living is something everybody knows about it in the world !
About the Warner subject,maybe that DVD-A of TB 2003 was considered his third album to be released under that contract.Dunno what really happened and if the real reasons for Mike leaving Warner and going to Mercury will be revealed to the public.
My pennies on.
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"But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014
"I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011
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