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Originally Posted by mankycaaant
why do so many of the new members come in with these overly pretentious threads about the meaning of life, exchanging the last word with the term music, in an attempt to sound profound.
Why does there need to be a deeper meaning. Why do we need do delve into the subconscious mind in an attempt to better understand why we like a certain chord progression, why must we ponder whether or not the government conspires via radio-friendly songs in an attempt to get us to buy into foreign invasions?
This ain't a psychology forum. why do people give time to these threads and neglect to talk about, y'know...actually music?
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Why are you so aggressive all the time?
It is a decent question, maybe he is not trying to "sound profound" but actually have people contribute to something that he is trying to figure out in his head.
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Why do we need do delve into the subconscious mind in an attempt to better understand why we like a certain chord progression
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WHY THE **** NOT
He is talking about music. Just not about a particular band or genre. It is still relevant.
And now to reply to the opening post.
Are you referring to technical western rules in music, as in keys and progressions or different rules? Like unsaid rules, like what is right and wrong as a collective? I think that society does create boundaries, and in many cases they are bad ones, and I don't just mean musically speaking, it is present in art and in architecture as well(one of the ones that society has affected for the worse and vice versa)
I like the idea of music being something that is fun for people to create and for people to listen to. From my experience the most talented musicians that I have met were the ones open minded enough to embrace new things, and make mistakes.For instance, I have a friend who has a music studio(his band is linked in my sig) and he was given an old piano for the studio, the guy asked him would he like him to tune the piano, and my friend said no. The piano doesn't sound perfect, but playing on it adds an ethereal and spooky quality to the music. Once a musician accepts that there is no rules in music, he/she is free to explore more exciting territory.