Thread 128324941

No one in the western world lives an interesting enough life to be able to write music like this anymore.

What was his life life like? Don't know his story.

>>128324960
I think it’s more so that the world around him was much more interesting and dynamic back then. Before globalism made everywhere look the same.

>>128324973
What is interesting to you?

>>128324941 (OP)
Nobody before Tom Waits lived a life like that either. He was/is lightning in a bottle

>>128325006
read some books, anon

>>128324973
>Before globalism made everywhere look the same.
Would you accept a return to Tom Wait's era when crime rates were higher and people in general were bigger party animals than they are today? You want a more interesting world, but do you want the consequences of such? For what it's worth, I wouldn't mind a return to this era, I think scelerophobia has turned the world into a bunch of bitchy, shut-in retards who are barely functional in the real world and get triggered and flock to social media at even the slightest hint of discomfort, but is this what you want? I only ask this question because there's a lot of overlap with people who use the term "globalism" and people who are obsessing over these things

>>128325085
I woulda been a murderer back then :)

>>128324973
*Globalization

>>128325074
Tom Waits is a product of specific locations and specific times

>>128325399
also a product of plenty of music and literature

>>128325417
You could put someone on a "media diet" of all the same shit Tom Waits read and listened to, but you won't get Tom Waits. Je ne sais quoi.

>>128325443
Pierre Menard tried something like this (in literature) and it actually worked.

>>128325443
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s914DignUcg

It’s because people don’t go outside.

>>128325085
in that time when people smoked everywhere and thought we would all die in World War III and had far less technology and a lot of things now taken for granted. and when music could only be heard on the radio or by buying an expensive album that probably had 2 good songs and 8 filler tracks.

>>128324941 (OP)

Tom Waits himself was just larping as a 1920s black guy

>>128324941 (OP)
Just go live in New Delhi for a month.

>>128325564
And when there were millions of people walking around who'd lived through major wars.

>>128324960
He was born at 30 years old.

>>128325618
That’s why I said western world. When white people are poor and sleazy, they are SOVL, but when brown people are it’s just part and parcel.

>>128325629
Plenty of veterans of the Iraq War and Syrian Civil War walking around Europe today

>>128325864
Aye but music is haram for them

He's a larping faggot. Grow the fuck up, retard.

>>128326370
You know I somehow can't picture Cardi B singing "The Weight" either tbqh.

>>128326413
this, Waits' entire career amounts to a rich guy slumming looking for song material.

>>128325678
What?

>>128325554
Have you seen what outside looks like lately?