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Not only that, but this article's claims are nonsense: "Such advances have made it easy for those with limited talent to sound professional. YouTube videos
by caminante 10y ago
Not only that, but this article's claims are nonsense:
"Such advances have made it easy for those with limited talent to sound
professional. YouTube videos abound that purport to show DJs miming
their mixes—their hands a whirl of activity over the controls, but
never actually alighting on any of them. For many, this confirms a
long-held suspicion that some now simply turn up with a pre-recorded
set, press play, and rake in the cash."
Nobody cares if the DJ's beat-matching. Any paid DJ can do so. It's about the production and entertainment.
P.S. Alighting's not a verb.
edit: Alighting CAN be a verb! ("to settle or stay after descending")
- pm215 10y agoYes, 'alight' is a verb; listed by the OED as 'alight, v. 1' sense 4b "To descend and settle; (of something in flight) to land. Freq. with on, upon. Also fig.". Citations back to 1330 with ones obviously like the modern usage back in 1610, eg "c1610–15 Life Holie Hilda in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 57 A greate number of birds alighting in her fields of corne, and deuouring it shrewdlie." Latest cite 2006, so not obsolete or archaic.
- vorotato 10y agoThe word landing would probably be clearer.
- caminante 10y agoHa! Thanks. I re-read the author's paragraph. On first read, I thought he's using alight in the sense of "lighting." In that case, it's not a verb. I assumed this because even show DJ's who are "just pressing play" still touch the dials. It's just that the board isn't plugged in. edit: it appears there's a non-OE meaning that I overlooked too [0] from mis-interpreting the text. [0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/alighting http://www.dictionary.com/browse/alighting