isn't anywhere near as exciting cos you never hear it in a club
idk if its progress that where 20 years ago, i would not have been into dua lipa and sabrina carpenter but now i love their recent singles.
Take a fishing chairyour knees hurt anyway
You can't play the field forever, lads.
not least because electronic music's possibilities have been exhaustively explored.
'Calcify' is quite a negative spin on what is just coming to know what one enjoys the most and bringing it into focus - calcification makes it sound like one's missing out on pleasure rather than maximising it, which is what is actually happening.
“I once knew a monster who said she could not read Proust because there were no figures in Proust with whom she could identify.” - T.W. Adorno
“Thus, it is difficult for any individual man to work himself out of the immaturity that has all but become his nature. He has even become fond of this state and for the time being is actually incapable of using his own understanding… Rules and formulas, those mechanical aids to the rational use, or rather misuse, of his natural gifts, are the shackles of a permanent immaturity. Whoever threw them off would still make only an uncertain leap over the smallest ditch, since he is unaccustomed to this kind of free movement. Consequently, only a few have succeeded, by cultivating their own minds, in freeing themselves from immaturity and pursuing a secure course.” - Kant
Yeah, I do all that, but I still like jungle/dnb best...that's because once you've heard a reasonable amount you have a good feel for what you might like or not.Conservative to the chicken-tender bone! Always strive to learn new things, attempt to change your mind, reexamine what you’ve dismissed, check your blind spots, push yourself, disturb your sensibility, discover new comforts, find that needle in the haystack, bracket your preferences. Aesthetic experience isn’t equivalent to wearing your coziest old t-shirt. Sapere aude is a call to action!
You're quite the caricature. I'm not saying enjoy only what you like now but, logically and empirically, that after a such over a certain period of time what one likes the most is unlikely to be replaced by something the search missed or something new turning up (a superseding novelty is most likely to spring from the genre one already prefers and to count as the 'same thing' even though the tunes may all be new.That the author treats taste as “purely a natural statistical phenomenon” and not an issue of sentimental (moral and aesthetic) education probably explains more than anything the dirth of his own musical pantheon. Utterly depressing outlook. Reminds me of the pro-NFT art sensibility, really autistic ideas about how how a civilized culture works. In my regard for notions of enlightenment, bildungsroman, etc. perhaps I’m more culturally conservative than thou, Biscuits. This “enjoy what you like” attitude is fine, but “like only what you enjoy now” seems dismal and ultimately an embrace of relativism. Well-intentioned, maybe, but as your ilk are so keen to repeat, the path to Hell is paved with what again?
What is required is a brainiac tyro equipped with peerless technical ability, the drive to assimilate the whole tradition and reformulate it in daring and innovative forms.