> I absolutely cannot hear any of the ugliness or emotion or narrative or relatability that Siderea and her commenters are discussing: this just sounds like background noise to me. My capacity to appreciate music is *greater* than for visual art, but apparently not great enough.
Yeah nope I can't see it either. Sometimes I feel like classical music makes as much an art of understanding it as of making it; they have so much opaque-to-me nature.
>This is *exactly* the kind of song that outlives everyone who knows what it means. And those who do not remember history...
That was basically an explicit design goal, right? To write a song for the virus that sounded like those old plague-themed rhymes that everyone remembers as noone remembering the origin of?
> That's right: a No Frills ad consisting of a two-minute rap about appropriate grocery-shopping etiquette in a time of COVID-19.
This song is objectively awful and no level of pro-social content can make me actually like it. I agree it makes a good piece to demonstrate something of the era, but that's nothing like quality.
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Yeah nope I can't see it either. Sometimes I feel like classical music makes as much an art of understanding it as of making it; they have so much opaque-to-me nature.
>This is *exactly* the kind of song that outlives everyone who knows what it means. And those who do not remember history...
That was basically an explicit design goal, right? To write a song for the virus that sounded like those old plague-themed rhymes that everyone remembers as noone remembering the origin of?
> That's right: a No Frills ad consisting of a two-minute rap about appropriate grocery-shopping etiquette in a time of COVID-19.
This song is objectively awful and no level of pro-social content can make me actually like it. I agree it makes a good piece to demonstrate something of the era, but that's nothing like quality.