Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The People’s Temple and the Slippery Slope of Authenticity
Aug 5, 2011, 3:51am
The Passion of the Weiss
The Passion of the Weiss
Douglas Martin knows Jim Jones. The REAL Jim Jones. There’s this thing that a lot of obsessive music fans often do when thinking about bands and songs: grapple with the concept of “authenticity”. When evaluating an artist’s work, we question whether it’s “genuine” or “honest,” or adding anything to the musical landscape. Some feel that new music should add something “new” constantly, something that makes them stand out from the loads of music that's already been released. For others, there’s an X-factor, an intangible that makes a band’s music feel “real” without necessarily reinventing the [...]
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