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Old 10-18-2015, 03:25 PM   #2963 (permalink)
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tl;dr: I don't give a damn about no definitions, I'll up and make my own if anyone calls me out on it.

I'm sure that commenting on this will just cause you to dig your heels further in the sand, but just use a different word dude, or throw in a descriptor to clarify what you mean. For example "there's no melody" can easily be changed to "there's no coherent melody." If you were in a music class and threw out your little construct of melody on a test asking you to define it, you would get that question dead wrong. Since you're talking about music, it's probably a good idea to use musical terminology correctly as opposed to creating new definitions for them.
I'd say it's like Creationists saying evolution is "just a theory", without bothering to figure out what an actual scientific theory is. I don't think anyone would bat an eye if TH said Gorguts wasn't melodic, since that's a technically objective statement that people still treat as a subjective opinion, but saying that music doesn't have melody is claiming something objectively.
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