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Lol yeah exactly. I do think it kinda makes sense, because classical music listening is more oriented around certain performances by specific musicians, rather
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
Lol yeah exactly.
I do think it kinda makes sense, because classical music listening is more oriented around certain performances by specific musicians, rather than the piece itself, which normal music platforms aren't well suited for.
But that isn't quite unique to classical, which as you've pointed out is going to be a denotational quagmire and almost certain to piss people off. Hopefully they take the dumbly funny but also appropriate approach of just also putting jam bands, gospel and dj sets in there, which share this performance-orientation with classical music.
- niek_pas 4y agoTo add to this good point — jazz is another genre where the performer is hugely important.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoYeah for sure. I didn't mention it because there's a lot of overlap between jazz and classical listeners so probably some awareness of that already. And both groups tend to think highly of their own tastes in my experience; I wanted to draw attention to this being a broadly shared characteristic of many types of music completely orthogonal to how "sophisticated" it is.