@mahgister I said, “you are speaking with grave authority on matters purely subjective.”
That’s not “putting a label” on anybody. It’s called, “conversation.”
My bit about people listening to music on phones vs. gear made solely for music reproduction etc. was just a hypothetical scenario I made to prove a point.
It had nothing to do whatsoever with anything you had previously written.
You somehow took that as being all about you; you took it personally.
You said I was “putting a label on you.”
It’s called, “conversation.”
This is all very curious behavior.
You then said I had “limited opinion or understanding.”
An inexplicable statement, given the content of our exchanges at that point, and, more importantly, uncalled for.
“For sure music is not a mere "subjective" mess randomly distributed in all cultures, that we must treat as superficial subjective tastes in a relativistic manner as you suggested ...Those who think so are ignorant thats all..”
I beg to differ.
There are zero people on planet Earth that can “prove” one piece of music is “better” than another.
My friends and fellow musicians (most of my friends are, like myself, professional musicians) know me to be…how should I put it…quick with an opinion.
Sometimes the intensity of my opinions may be described as virulent.
I can be pretty caustic.
I’m also not an idiot and understand that my fancy-shmancy academic talk doesn’t amount to a hill of beans to someone who likes…gosh, I don’t know…Morgan Wallen, for example.
No matter the infallibility of my fluency in music theory, no matter the depth of my understanding of music history, no matter how deep of an understanding of the “nuts and bolts” of music may be, no matter how good at music I am, no matter how persuasive and academically sound my argument may be for the sheer suckiness of Morgan Wallen, it ultimately amounts to a hill of beans to the person who absolutely loves Morgan Wallen.
It would result in a statement no more a “fact” than saying, “pizza is better than hamburgers.”
“Commercial music is not yoruba drumming... The content is not the same at all.... The experience is not the same at all”.
According to whom?
Again, not a fact.
The one reference to empirical fact you have made, your reference to the science that exists to support the idea that music can be physically therapeutic…that remedial listening may be just as effective via Morgan Wallen or BTS as Bach, depending on the person.
“Inform yourself before you put a label on me.”
Classy dude, this mahgister fellow.