Is predictable bad in music?

>>73155124
Her last concert wasn't very predictable desu

Usually.

>>73155124

yes

>>73155189
>>73155170
so anything in the major scale is bad? Blues is bad?

>>73155217
No. You're retarded.
(Blues is pretty played out at this point though, you probably should not do straight blues in the year 2017)

>>73155255
well, as a musician the major scale is the most predictable thing conceivable. And if predictable music is bad, that singles out a huge chunk of western music.

>>73155124
RIP
Went away too soon. Fuck terrorism.

>>73155302
This is some very juvenile thinking on display here. What exactly are you trying to justify, because there's clearly something that you feel like you need to defend.

The OP is misleading, probably on purpose. Having predictable, or rather "familiar" or "accessible" elements in music is not bad, as long as you're doing something else as well. You didn't say whether you're asking about that, or about music that ONLY has predictable or familiar elements. A jazzman can play a major scale and make it sound exciting, as an unexpectedly consonant contrast to otherwise dissonant music. A jazzman playing ONLY major scale music would probably be regarded as shallow or unimaginative. So it depends on what you mean by "predictable".

It also depends on the values, or even politics, of the people judging it. More conservative fans who don't want their favorite artists to change might like predictability. Progressively-minded fans would want their favorite artists to keep showing them new things, and to never retread older territory (ironically if this happens they are likely to espouse very conservative-sounding opinions). So it also depends on what you mean by "bad".

Finally, "predictable" means very different things in top 40 pop music, as opposed to Darmstadt-style avant-garde art music. So it also depends on what kind of "music" you're talking about (although this one matters a little less, since even in the realm of top 40 listeners tend to look down on acts that are just doing the same ol same ol).

So every part of your original question needs to be expanded in order for this discussion to have any meaning, and not just some kind of baiting bullshit.

>>73155783
Finally some sense on /mu/
god it's refreshing