I still don't understand why, man. If it's an astounding body of auditory beauty on it's own, why is not music? Why is birdsong the one exception? Because it has song in the title? I mean, appreciating it, appreciating it as a musical medium, and liking it...are they they same thing?
Windsong, telephonewiresong, speechsong, ambientnoisesong...are those music?
Imagine if the tables were turned. You were the artist, not the listener. Someone says "fu
ck no man, it's not even music!" Would that discredit your stance as music even though incredibly intelligent, sexy, and inspiring people such as myself are like "well I mean I guess it's music, but it sucks Beelzebob's anus, for quite a long time." Obviously a ridiculous example (even if it reminds me of 4'33"
), but could still be theoretically applicable.
But seriously, why should a listener be the one who decides whether something is music or not when they put no work into the piece? Sure, it might suck, but fu
ck, it's still some sh
ite music to begin with. I don't go around saying a Kenny G solo saxophone album isn't music because nothing is happening, it doesn't interest me in the slightest, and makes absolute (and nonexistant) silence preferable (for a man who thrives on music), I'm still going to say that it's music.