The Art of Music
Ever wonder why people tend to go 'ga-ga' over guitarists and other so-called 'musicians' and 'artistes'..
...prancing about on stage or on the silver screen playing chart-topping 'tunes' - which are basically combinations of notes put together that do not sound 'offtune' - at superspeed with a generous dollop of noise and feedback thrown in for little reason?
Simple, these days, it isn't about the music in itself as it once was. It is more to do with providing the increasingly cretinised masses with that which they are deprived of - a sense of power, self-significance and prominence. So the louder and faster they play; the more they gyrate their bodies or throw themselves off the stage into shrieking hysterical 'fans'; the less appropriately-dressed-for-work they look, the more the shrieking amongst the maddening crowd. They sell significance by the barrow but it is worth little more than a spadeful of dust whn we see what this translates to within us. After a quick fix from a well-known 'artiste', we are yet again empowered to be disembowelled in the next working day. In other words, we are not empowered to 'rock around the clock' but to GET 'rocked around the clock'. But if we really scrutinise these artistes, we'll realise that they have nothing significant to say, represent nothing significant, and that their lyrical and musical production is as deep and complex as a puddle formed in that dent on the road after a passing cloud.
The question to ask when we like something is...
...whether it is because of its intrinsic value or because it purely compensates for some sense of deprivation we are encumbered with. It's something like taking a pill for an ailment. We don't take it for its intrinsic value but because of its serving as a remedy for a malady.
I'll leave you with a real tune by a group called, 'The Cousins', that exhibits the value of a tune in itself. The tune is not relegated to the position of an accompaniment for the musicians' egos - as it is today. Rather, these musicians are simply its bearers. Be warned, it is relatively devoid of paracetamolic value unlike those churned out by the 'artistes' comprising the greatest pharmaceutical company in the world of today - 'The Entertainment Industry'.
...prancing about on stage or on the silver screen playing chart-topping 'tunes' - which are basically combinations of notes put together that do not sound 'offtune' - at superspeed with a generous dollop of noise and feedback thrown in for little reason?
Simple, these days, it isn't about the music in itself as it once was. It is more to do with providing the increasingly cretinised masses with that which they are deprived of - a sense of power, self-significance and prominence. So the louder and faster they play; the more they gyrate their bodies or throw themselves off the stage into shrieking hysterical 'fans'; the less appropriately-dressed-for-work they look, the more the shrieking amongst the maddening crowd. They sell significance by the barrow but it is worth little more than a spadeful of dust whn we see what this translates to within us. After a quick fix from a well-known 'artiste', we are yet again empowered to be disembowelled in the next working day. In other words, we are not empowered to 'rock around the clock' but to GET 'rocked around the clock'. But if we really scrutinise these artistes, we'll realise that they have nothing significant to say, represent nothing significant, and that their lyrical and musical production is as deep and complex as a puddle formed in that dent on the road after a passing cloud.
The question to ask when we like something is...
...whether it is because of its intrinsic value or because it purely compensates for some sense of deprivation we are encumbered with. It's something like taking a pill for an ailment. We don't take it for its intrinsic value but because of its serving as a remedy for a malady.
I'll leave you with a real tune by a group called, 'The Cousins', that exhibits the value of a tune in itself. The tune is not relegated to the position of an accompaniment for the musicians' egos - as it is today. Rather, these musicians are simply its bearers. Be warned, it is relatively devoid of paracetamolic value unlike those churned out by the 'artistes' comprising the greatest pharmaceutical company in the world of today - 'The Entertainment Industry'.
The Art of Music lies in its potential to Refine Humanity.
Not Blind it.
Not Blind it.
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