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Date Posted: 08:22:15 02/27/08 Wed
Author: Deep Diction
Subject: Re: Paul McCartney-san
In reply to: EJetson 's message, "Re: Paul McCartney-san" on 07:02:58 02/27/08 Wed

>>>I think she's cool, but completely tone deaf.
>>
>>I don't think she's tone deaf at all. She just likes
>>to create atonal music. There is a level of beauty in
>>dissonance that is totally different from the beauty
>>of traditional melody and harmony.
>>
>>It's kind of like saying Martin Scorsese would be
>>incapable of making or understanding romantic
>>comedies. He might very well be capable of it, but he
>>just doesn't do it. And Judy Blume might be capable of
>>writing scarier books than Stephen King, but we'd
>>never know because that's not the genre she prefers.
>>
>>I enjoy lots of different genres of music, and my
>>reason for listening to one genre is vastly different
>>from why I might listen to another. With atonal music,
>>it's the total unpredictability of it that I like...
>>my brain is expecting a certain type of note to follow
>>another, and it is constantly surprised. It's jarring,
>>and it's supposed to be.
>
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>There is a reason why some notes don't follow other
>notes in most enjoyable types of music. Because they
>sound horrible. Unique isn't always good.

There's also a reason why we don't all have exactly the same CD collections. Conformity isn't always good either.

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