> Not in the case of Zimmer. That´s exactly the problem you see. The
> technical facility of his music and the naivete of his methods can be
> repulsive even inside the film music industry. These facts are hidden
> besides all the orchestral grandeur. Try listening to the music of the
> Pirates played by a rock band. You will conclude that the difference
> between Zimmer´s music and pop music is not that big. The reviewer quickly
> understood this. Anyone with some musical background can see this.

Huh? Try telling my cousin that. She's a big fan of rockin roll and she looks heavily down on film music. In fact she calls it background music because thats all it amounts to her. Actually speaking of rock bands, I heard Metallica perform the Imperial March at some award show. And it actually sounded as if the Imperial March was an acutal rock song. In fact I hear many peices of classical music video game music and film music get translated by rock bands. You have to remember in the end...music is music. Let me also add that fans who listen to rock or rap do not consider their music to be pop! If I was to say somthing like that I would be slapped dead! So if you look at it, people who listen to pop music consider our music to be background music. And we who listen to film scores consider all of their music to be pop trash! But in the end, whatever your preference is, music is music.

Back to my cousin. If I was to let her listen to a Zimmer score (including the priate scores) she would most likely consider it to be nothing more than boring background music and pop in one of her rock cds. This is because a person like Jessica or the average Joe who listens to pop music would find Zimmer's music to be too complicated and uninteresting (my brother, my parents, my friends, people who listen to pop music in general, etc)! So in a way Zimmer is stuck in music limbo. The point is, there is a major difference between Zimmer's music and pop music. But at the same time it is possible for other forms of music to translate themes and music composed by both intelligent and simplistic composers.

But what makes music, music is not becuase of the acutal sound. It's becuase of the fans behind the music. Still...I can respect your opinion on Hans Zimmmer!