{"id":12666,"date":"2023-03-21T22:36:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T22:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12666"},"modified":"2023-03-21T22:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T22:36:38","slug":"influence-over-artistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/21\/influence-over-artistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Influence Over Artistry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20230321-electro-pop-master-m83-we-re-losing-the-mystery-in-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from France 24<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Electro-pop master M83: &#8216;We&#8217;re losing the mystery in music&#8217;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M83 &#039;Midnight City&#039; Official video\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dX3k_QDnzHE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony Gonzalez, the man behind M83, the group that helped define electro-pop, fears for a music industry that increasingly wants artists to be influencers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M83 has had a string of global hits and critically lauded albums, with the 2011 song &#8220;Midnight City&#8221; clocking up more than 800 million listens on Spotify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the words of music site Pitchfork, the group&#8217;s mix of dreamy electronica and emotive rock has &#8220;become the base stock of most popular indie acts&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M83&#8217;s new album, &#8220;Fantasy&#8221;, is another ecstatic slice of electronica that mixes futuristic sounds with nostalgic emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s about &#8220;escaping the daily routine, the macabre news environment, and leaving some place for the imagination and dreaming,&#8221; Gonzalez told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20230321-electro-pop-master-m83-we-re-losing-the-mystery-in-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at France 24<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from France 24 Electro-pop master M83: &#8216;We&#8217;re losing the mystery in music&#8217; AFP Anthony Gonzalez, the man behind M83, the group that helped define electro-pop, fears for a music industry that increasingly wants artists to be influencers. M83 has had a string of global hits and critically lauded albums, with the 2011 song &#8220;Midnight City&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}