/music/ - Music

this makes me feel sad. i wish life felt like this music

Post music that does interesting time signature stuff

why do leftists always make banger songs?

The "nerds in hip-hop" discussion is ridiculous because they all end up abstracting "nerd" to reflect various types of intelligent and/or intellectual expression they don't like. So it almost always funnels down to a "rap is for ignorant incoherent blacks always on weed and crack" logic. If it then circles back to its original premise of "white nerds and execs took the culture out of the game" then that's a nothingburger convo, taming down the aspects of services that don't match bourgeois tastes is inevitable, since all art is made for bourgeois audiences anyways.

Hip-hop is already far too globalized, subsequently curated and promoted to cater to middle-class tastes and sensibilities world over; it's too far gone. These days any conversation that takes hip-hop back to its social roots is hardly insightful yap about how art is consumed in bourgeois society, or other uninsightful, unnuanced, corny social commentary that often devolves into leftie hotep type racism or the milquetoast rightoid kind, especially since these tend to be the only types that fixate on the question, obviously without inquiry.

Is experimental music inherently leftist music? If so, what makes it so? Can anyone name a right-wing experimental musician? No, Zappa doesn't count. (I suppose Italian futurists would count, but that was over a century ago)

post conservative and rightoid music of any genre.

Geddy Lee seems to have a Stockholm Syndrome about Germans, as he let the German drummer into his space.
Do you remember? They were first an edgelord band that loved Ayn Rand and hated people but now they are democrats.

Do you believe music has the power to change the world?

**“Sexual identity is dead,” says Foucault. If pretextual nationalism holds,
we have to choose between precapitalist textual theory and subsemanticist
deappropriation. Therefore, the subject is contextualised into a capitalist
neodialectic theory that includes culture as a totality. **

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post rare nonos or other leftist modern symphonic that you vibe with

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okay look mods this rule works for the main board but not for culture sharing boards. I mean, really.

Call me woke, but I do believe XXXtensioncord’s popularity is what inadvertently lead to the rise in Gen Z conservatism.

X was frequently lambasted for being a wifebeater, misogynist, homophobe, New Age woo believer, social conservative (he spoke out against anti-racist activists), and pretentious asshole. The mainstream media didn’t want to touch him because he was too controversial. Yet, the more he was “cancelled” and despised for all his ills, the more it added to his allure among zoomers. X’s image was that of a deeply disturbed troubled genius whose pain and anger lead him to violence and nihilism. He was cold and cruel but that’s exactly what made him so appealing as a rapper to begin with.

This, I believe, was the gateway drug that turned a lot of zoomers (in particular, zoomer men) into far-right conservatives and fascists. All those zoomers who were listening to X back in 2017-18 while in middle school or high school voted for Trump in last year’s election. They are the same people who listen to Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, and Jordan Peterson. It’s identical to how all the Gen X nonconformists who idolizes Kurt Cobain went on to become a Big Tech innovators or how millennials who spent their teen years listening to emo rock ended up becoming SJWs (since the essence of emo music is trauma and mental illness/neurodivergence). It’s all because X was cancelled time and time again before he was clout martyred, then smeared over and over again after death. Zoomers who loves him saw that and began internalizing X’s persona as well as resentment towards a morally-obsessive cancel culture.

It makes perfect sense once you think about it.