Unpopular views about music

Rick The Stick said:
Disturbed is what non-metalheads think metal sounds like. Every song of theirs sounds the fucking same. There was a great meme vid called like "the greatest hit of Disturbed" that demonstrated this perfectly. They're a one note band who's biggest spike in relevancy since the monkey noise in Sickness was a cover of a fucking Simon & Garfunkel song. That was also autoutned to shit, no less.

Lol. Lmao even.
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Rick The Stick said:
Disturbed is what non-metalheads think metal sounds like. Every song of theirs sounds the fucking same. There was a great meme vid called like "the greatest hit of Disturbed" that demonstrated this perfectly. They're a one note band who's biggest spike in relevancy since the monkey noise in Sickness was a cover of a fucking Simon & Garfunkel song. That was also autoutned to shit, no less.

Lol. Lmao even.
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YAMA NA MA YAMA NA MA
YAMA NA MA NA MA!
 
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This touches on the Classical side...

My cousin was visiting me and we took the train to Seattle. While in Seattle, we attended a classical music concert where I committed a racism according to one person.

My Japanese cousin thought it was perfectly reasonable.

My racism?

I think that certain roles should have preferences for certain races as it breaks immersion otherwise.

While my objection is the use of Blacks in many French and Italian operas, I also believe that if you cast a story in Japan (i.e. Madame Butterfly) the ideal soprano should be Japanese if they are good enough then the most talented foreign singer.

In essence, as long as their is not a significant quality difference the roles should go to the person that fits the story the most.

But just because I felt a Black guy singing French / Italian operas breaks immersion, I am a racist.
 
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LaxerBRO said:
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yeah the classical side isn't safe from this, unfortunately. I watched a video recently about why contemporary classical is becoming irrelevant and one of the reasons the guy gave is that there aren't enough black people and women. The other day I also read an essay about how the idea of tonality is actually racist. I hate these people so much.

I weep for classical music. It's bad enough that atonal modernists took over, and then now wokeshit has to enter the picture too.
 
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Lowlife Adventures said:
The other day I also read an essay about how the idea of tonality is actually racist. I hate these people so much.
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This is not so much a Classical Music thing as a "New Musicology" thing. It has, fortunately, no traction outside loony-bin academia. Orchestras and soloist will continue to play mostly crowd-pleasers as usual.

Affirmative casting will lose their novelty, and I expect few if any of the many young Black musicians shilled by Decca will survive 5 years.
 
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Ron Jeremy Stan Account said:
I actually found Amy Winehouse to be somewhat attractive when she was alive and in the news. Not in a homely trophy wife sort of way, but rather a crazy ex-girlfriend that I occasionally smash on the side kind of way. Does anyone else feel that way?
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I mean she was cute when she had weight to her frame, then she became a crackwhore that dressed like a B-52's reject.
 
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Lowlife Adventures said:
The other day I also read an essay about how the idea of tonality is actually racist. I hate these people so much.
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These retards literally say math is racist. You know, the stuff we need to figure out how to build buildings that don't just collapse, killing everyone inside them.

They're literally saying "the uwu pee oh sees we worship are too stupid to do math so we need to do away with it."
 
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LaxerBRO said:
This touches on the Classical side...

My cousin was visiting me and we took the train to Seattle. While in Seattle, we attended a classical music concert where I committed a racism according to one person.

My Japanese cousin thought it was perfectly reasonable.

My racism?

I think that certain roles should have preferences for certain races as it breaks immersion otherwise.

While my objection is the use of Blacks in many French and Italian operas, I also believe that if you cast a story in Japan (i.e. Madame Butterfly) the ideal soprano should be Japanese if they are good enough then the most talented foreign singer.

In essence, as long as their is not a significant quality difference the roles should go to the person that fits the story the most.

But just because I felt a Black guy singing French / Italian operas breaks immersion, I am a racist.
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Ideally, yeah, you'd get people who look like the characters in question to perform them, but opera has always had the problem that the talent pool for the most technically demanding parts is pretty small. Hence the perennial jokes about the fat lady playing Brünnhilde, beautiful semi-divine Valkyrie. Sure, the 275 pound chunker there on stage might not exactly look like the part, but if she's the one with the lungs, you've got to take what you can get. If this means Parsifal gets played by a Chinese guy, while the cast of Oslo's performance of The Mikado has to go through a lot of hair dye, well, them's the breaks. That's also just part of the difference between stage performances and film performances - there's necessarily less ability to replicate reality 1:1, so you've got to trust the audience's suspension of disbelief and investment in the story a lot more.

But it's pretty easy to tell when casting choices are innocent vs. when they're ideological. Is the Atlanta Opera Company casting a black guy with a great big voice as the Duke in Rigoletto? That's fine, and anyone who strenuously objects is just being annoying. Should the Seattle Opera cast a black trans "woman" as (the surpassingly beautiful and very soprano) Gilda in the same opera, well, fuck them.
 
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Sure, the 275 pound chunker there on stage might not exactly look like the part, but if she's the one with the lungs, you've got to take what you can get.
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It's the fat lady for a reason. You almost need to be fat to have the acoustics inside you to hit those notes and hit them loud. Sort of like sumo wrestlers, it's a very physically demanding thing, and it's rare both to have the weight necessary and the good health necessary to do what's essentially a vocal athletic performance on a nightly basis.

Also possibly unpopular, I don't know. . .men have a better vocal range than women for music. And most women with a great tessitura waste it on utterly worthless pop trash, like Mariah Carey.
 
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Jazz is fucking garbage!

Rock music is four chords entertaining thousands
Jazz is thousands of chords entertaining four People

"If you really want to be a musician and you are prepared to really work hard at it, but you don't have the gift and you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do"

Couldn't have put it better than Stewart Copeland
 
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CrackandSack said:
Jazz is fucking garbage!

Rock music is four chords entertaining thousands
Jazz is thousands of chords entertaining four People

"If you really want to be a musician and you are prepared to really work hard at it, but you don't have the gift and you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do"

Couldn't have put it better than Stewart Copeland
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Not too familiar with Jazz but I'm inclined to agree if we're talking about the Free Jazz period onward. On the topic of jazz, I remember listening to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue after reading about how great it is and finding it underwhelming.
 
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