Showing posts with label Erotic literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erotic literature. Show all posts

Friday, July 13, 2012

50 Shades - A Musical Debate


This is all the arguments I have heard or read both for and against this book  in one song! SOme people like it, others abhor it and still the debate rages on.  I have heard these arguments for almost every single series that hit the charts rapidly.  There are all kinds of entertainment. Some like this, others don't.  HAVE YOU READ FIFTY SHADES? How do you feelabout it?

I read all three (my husband read two) and I really enjoyed them.

So these young (-er than me) people are doing these musical bits online.  Fun! I like it when I see creativity, and folks working together!

http://youtu.be/leT-4Y1l7NY

This next bit is the music Grey plays in his car as he and Anastasia are getting to know each other.  It is a rarely choral piece written during the reign of Elizabeth I.  Sung in latin, it is a musical frame for the words: respice humilitatem nostram (be mindful of our humiliation). I think these early choral pieces were meditations on religious ideas. But, having been FORCED to listen to choral music much of my youth, I have a hard time with it.  This is actually lovely though.

Spem in Alium
, by the English Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis performed by, The Tallis Scholars in 2003.




http://youtu.be/7Cn7ZW8ts3Y

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

ONLY THE DIRTY BITS


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Lizzie Crocker at Newsweek's online outlet The Daily Beast has written ‘50 Shades of Grey’ Speed Read: 14 Naughtiest Bits  wherein the book  is excerpted 14 times.  The whole fan fiction thing is rehashed a bit. But, if you don't want to pay the steep price of the book check out the article to see if you like it.

I am not fully cognizant over the controversy regarding the fan fiction.  I've read that it was wrong because the writer garnered fans through her fan fiction and then absconded with them to her own kingdom of sex, pain and pleasure.

One thing blogging has taught me is that YOU don't take anyone anywhere.  If they want you they will come, if they don't, well they won't bother.  Seriously if we download so-called mommy porn on our e-readers for its anonymity then why, in our anonymity, would we rush to another website because someone wanted us to.

I have also read that the characters were inspired by Edward and Bella but honestly I can't imagine a less similar character scenario.  I hope it is the case that the fan fiction forum gave the author of FIFTY SHADES the feeling of freedom to let go and write. And, most art is conceived in reference to some other art.

Maybe I have only skimmed the issue. But, it feels like the same kind of angry envy that was directed at Amanda Hocking after her success.  The world of publishing has been altered by the internet; in this strange new world new things are going to happen that won't please everyone. One post I read in Erotic Novel '50 Shades Of Grey,' Fan Fiction And Copyright says that a problem is that 89% of the book was previously available for free as fan fiction and because it's provenance is denied, this has lead people to shell out the $10 for the story.  That strikes me as more of an ethics issue than one of legality.  I wonder what Stephenie Meyers thinks about it? And, I remember people saying her books had been largely derived from others.
Fifty Shades of Grey at SeaTac newsstand
Fifty Shades of Grey at SeaTac newsstand (Photo credit: rachelkramerbussel.com)

Greater minds than mine have, I am sure, cogitated over this.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT?  If you want to forum here about it, tell me and I will respond here rather than via email.