The Freefly headset sells for as little as £67, so if more artists follow Björk's lead, perhaps this sort of intimate, intense, experience could become commonplace – the music video as something truly immersive, an all-encompassing, focusing experience, rather than one distracted tab on your laptop screen.
Using commonplace pop music tropes as an antidote for heartache is generally generally only seen as acceptable in the adolescent-thru-young adult demographic, more mature individuals being expected to handle such trials in a manner more becoming of their age and experience.
While the concept of harmony in that time was not necessarily the same as the concept of homophony as understood by modern scholars, it is generally accepted that homophonic voice harmonies were commonplace in African music for centuries before contact wwith Europeans and is common in African music today.
The new album brushes against electronic elements that have grown commonplace in world music.
These formerly alien sounds have become so commonplace in popular music that listeners often don't even notice.
It feels similar to the challenge the black community has, fighting against the N-word as an insult even as it's become commonplace in rap music and in casual conversation among black friends.
They are also shockingly commonplace, "the elevator music for the Arab world," as David Ignatius, an international affairs columnist for The Washington Post, puts it in "Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence," a PBS documentary that is broadcast tonight.
Despite their conservative cultural and musical leanings — their initial '50s hits were recorded without drums, which were then commonplace in country music — the Louvins' greatest acclaim came with the advent of rock 'n' roll, when rebellious sentiments and loud backbeats were in ascendance.
If there is nothing as instantly lovable as everything in Prokofiev's score — no captivating long-lined melodies, no harmonies tinged with just the right acidity to keep them from becoming oversweet or commonplace — Mr. Feeney's music does build up to real dramatic tension with the Wolf's appearance.
In fact, tributes to American soldiers have become so commonplace in country music over the past 20 years that, these days, it almost sounds normal for Cole Swindell to randomly proclaim, "I'm raisin' my glass to those savin' our ass overseas!" in the middle of a derivative breakup song.
