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> Is a bombastic Wagner opera more or less beautiful than a simple, haunting, short song by The Cranberries? It's amusing that you try to make this point by co
by azan_ 3y ago
> Is a bombastic Wagner opera more or less beautiful than a simple, haunting, short song by The Cranberries?
It's amusing that you try to make this point by comparing extremely talented musicans. For every cranberries there are millions of rightfully forgotten medicore bands just as for every beauty there are many, many more medicore or unattractive people.
- 7373737373 3y agoAnd some of these millions of not-popular musicians have fans too, because their music speaks to ("just") them. I think there is a chart to be made, of the universality/popularity <-> personal axis, vs the duration of appreciation axis platonic solids/pop songs/memes are popular/commonplace but their appreciation is usually short
- yowlingcat 3y agoBut that is my point. They are both extremely talented but they are different directions of beauty and different directions of talented. If you limited your ideal of what was beautiful to being a Wagnerian opera, you'd miss out everything else, including other extremely talented musicians who are talented in a different way. I don't make the point that there are /not/ millions of rightfully forgotten mediocre bands any more than I make the point that ugliness does not exist; ugliness certainly does exist and it certainly is common.