lengthtoavoid wrote:
Hoped it would be a more trad wave...awwww well. I am not keen on seeing this movie after the whole trailer footage I saw...not in the least.
I'm pretty sure the target audience is mostly young girls and they'll probably love it.
I welcome whatever exposure ska can get from this movie. And if that means a million little 14 year old girls start coming to shows, how would that be bad? Mike Mason wouldn't complain about that.
And lastly, I am on the record as rejecting the ska "wave theory". Bucket of The Toasters came up with the idea on the spur of the moment to make a point to a big time journalist and now the concept has taken on a life of its own. BUT IT ULTIMATELY MAKES NO SENSE. Ska has had far more than 3 periods of mainstream popularity and even if you want to make a counter-argument, which is fine, then I'd simply argue that THE 3rd WAVE HAS NEVER ENDED.
The vast majority of really good bands and genres of music are not on MTV or mainstream radio and do fine anyways. Ska is simply in that big category. Our 15 minutes of fame on MTV is best forgotten, as it was hardly representative of the scene at that point anyways and it created huge distortions in understanding the music. Mainstream media by definition tends to do that. Ask your neighborhood skinhead.