>"le metal is an intellectual genre, classical music

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>"le metal is an intellectual genre, classical music for the modern age! if beethoven were alive today, he'd be in a metal band!"

wtf i hate metal now

>>71994892
I wonder how these fedora dudes feel if they're every browsing 4chan or leddit and then see their picture posted from like 5 years ago

Ultimate theory of music. It is the only one worthy of a philosopher. Let's start with tempo, and explain why slower music is bound to be worse. Because there's not much complexity in it, since not much happening in it, sonically, at any given moment (this is what it means for music to be slow). Also, better music needs more instruments, again due to complexity, ergo Sinatra is inherently inferior. Sinatra is pop music of the '50s and the '60s, the Britney Spears of his time. Early rap in fact, lol, since his voice is essentially the entire band, dominating to such an extent it may as well be rap. The same with many signers of that era, e.g. Bing Crosby, etc. That's why we talk of singers of that era instead of composers or bands, just like with rap artists. So at one end of the spectrum, at full speech articulation, you have a guy talking really fast, with either no music at all or a simplistic and repetitive background tune to avoid taking attention away from the fast-talker, and at the other end you have opera, where articulation is so faint that the singer can barely be said to be speaking, and where his voice is almost an extra instrument which no one can even understand what it is saying (which is where the libretto comes in).
Moving on to theme, the ultimate genre of music is heavy metal, and especially its epic variety, fittingly also called power metal (Nietzsche would have loved this label, for obvious reasons). To make epic music you need an epic subject. Pop starlets sing about kissing boys and Eminem about his mother popping pills — not exactly subjects that anyone could write operas about, if you see my meaning. So how complex could the music to such petty experiences get? If if did get complex, it would clash with the simplicity of the feeling it is trying to convey, so the end result would still be inferior.

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And finally, there is length. Pop music must by its very nature be brief, since it is so simplistic and repetitive that if it went on for more than a few minutes even its braindead fans would get bored of it. Also, domination of lyrics precisely for the benefit of unmusical people. No lyrics in classical music because it is music. Music is supposed to convey its meaning via melody, which of course must be interpreted for the message (=feeling) to be received, but peasants don't have the attention span or subtlety for that, ergo lyrics are introduced to literally tell the peasants the meaning. Wherever lyrics are introduced they dominate in the listener's ear, to the detriment of the music, because their meaning is easier to interpret. Least dominant in opera, out of all the lyrical forms, which is why opera can be pretty good music. Utterly dominant in rap, which is why rap features such shitty music, usually even stolen from a catchy pop tune, since rappers can't even be bothered to compose anything. Also, lyrics tire you out due to the intensity of the spoken word. Even if Blind Guardian singer Hansi Kürsch could write a song that went for an hour, 1. He wouldn't be able to sing it, 2. His audience would be so tired in the end that they'd feel as if they came out of a lecture hall that, besides the lecture, also blasted heavy music at them for an hour. But it is not only the music that degenerates with the addition of lyrics, but also vice versa, since the requirements of the melody — such as it is, in pop music — constrain the lyrics too, condemning them to simplicity and repetitiveness.

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I mean, it's not like you can deliver an interesting lecture via song lyrics, which would at least have kept the listeners entertained, so childish, repetitive stuff only, and since repetitive they must be kept brief — which is how we went from hour-long symphonies to three-minute pop songs. Otherwise, remove the music and you have an epic poem (which 1. Again is about an epic subject, and 2. Became extinct for another reason, that I'll explain elsewhere). So music is constraining the scope of the lyrics and the lyrics are constraining the scope of the music in this bastardized, hybrid art form. Ergo, for best lyrics (i.e. with no music) epic poetry, and for best music (i.e. with no lyrics) classical music or modern stuff like Lateralus, Enigma, Blind Guardian instrumentals, and so on, which at their best moments approach the effect of classical music; and if you want both music and lyrics in equal measure, short songs only, and the best will be the epicest, ergo epic metal. When lyrics dominate with a little music, you have rap and Eminem, but silly subjects because if you talk in small, fast rhymes you have to say silly things to match the silliness of the form you are using, ergo why gangster rap and Eminem songs sound so stupid (Stereo Nova supreme exception, and very difficult to attain), or Sinatra et al. plus opera. These are the best works that can be accomplished under the circumstances, given the inherent limitations of these forms. And as for pop songs and modern music in general, there are good works there too, and if even the best of them are, and must be, shallow, brief, repetitive and simplistic, we can compensate to an extent by bunching many of them together, and listening to them back-to-back, which is how mixes were born, which were unheard of in the age of classical music, for obvious reasons.

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>>71994917
Even Einstein wasn't that much of an aspie.

>>71994892
>there are people on /mu/ RIGHT NOW who actually believe that metal is for intellectuals instead of edgy teens and virgin neckbeards

>>71994892

whomst've you quoting?

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>>71995246
Metal is intelelctual music for smart people like mysef

Only nu-males who listen to proge or atmoshit think like this.

Glam, NWOBHM, and OSDM have no pseudointellectual pretensions.

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>>71995120
this is actually icy?

>>71995309
orgyofthewill.net 751

>>71994961
The Fedora Lounge is an active forum.
Some people just never get it.

>>71995331
Never read the Orgy stuff, mostly stuck to the insomnia articles that aren't paywalled.

Time to dig into them I guess.