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About a year and a half ago I joined the brony community, but it wasn't until this spring when I attended a brony convention that I really discovered how amazing the brony music scene is. Previously, I had been more or less avoiding it. Music isn't quite like art or comics that you can glance at, form an opinion on, and go on to look at other things. Particularly when you're someplace where you don't want to play music and distract others around you. But after experiencing a brony concert and hearing bronies singing some of the more well-known songs, I realized this was too important and too impressive a part of the community to ignore. A few months later and I have nearly six hours of brony music on my iPhone. Moving on to my main point, this got me wondering why music isn't a bigger part of the AFOL community. I've been to Brickfair several times, and I find music is conspicuously absent from most of the event. The folks from BZPower at the BIONICLE table occasionally bring a stereo to play music, but there is never any live music or community-generated music. This year, some BZPower members who have their own band are hoping to possibly hold a concert at a BZPower picnic one evening during the convention weekend, but their music generally isn't LEGO-inspired. The best explanation I can come up with for this dearth of AFOL music is that LEGO, as a hobby, is already a form of creative expression in and of itself. When it comes to creative expression among LEGO fans, MOCs far outnumber fan art, fan fiction, fan animations (even those generally are using the LEGO products as their medium), fan comics and fan music. But even in the BIONICLE and Ninjago fan communities, which have had a wealth of other forms of creative expression (and which have had well-promoted official promotional songs), music seems to be conspicuously absent (the closest we got in the BIONICLE community tended to be fan-made music videos of the official songs). Besides, it's not like other creative hobbies don't have their own musical expression — my mom is a quilter and has at least a couple albums of quilting-inspired music. Are there any musicians here on Eurobricks who can offer some insight into why this might be? Perhaps you have other passions you prefer to write music about, or perhaps you find the LEGO building experience hard to express in music and lyrics, or perhaps you just don't think AFOLs are interested in listening to music by other AFOLs? Do you think that the kind of creativity that the LEGO hobby inspires simply doesn't overlap much with the kind of creativity it takes to write good music? Do you think there's something more that the LEGO Group could or should be doing to encourage its fans to explore their musical talent? Do you think fandom-inspired music is a silly concept to begin with? I'd like to hear some other people's thoughts! EDIT: Also, on an unrelated note, does anyone know why when I went to edit my post I found HTML bold tags in the middle of every instance of the word "expression"?
