Awful, awful music

Forgotten Son · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:54 am

The last three posts read like a hilarious piece of sixth form poetry.

Sodacake · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:54 am

dreamcoil · **Posted:** Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:53 pm

joe c wrote:

Holy shit

this is awesome, musical/teen pop parody at its finest - on the level of 'big booty bitches' and tay zonday or what have you. you guys need to get a sense of humour, btw

Vil · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:14 pm **Posts:** 332

All the "Hot Problems" and "Friday"s of the world are nothing compared to this:

Timi · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:23 pm

!

Amazing.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 14836

pnoom wrote:

I love the game where we try to reduce a complex and multifarious human activity involving innumerable people with wildly divergent aims to a single aim and then try to judge the people engaging in that activity by the light of that one aim and don't care that all such attempts inevitably lead us to tremendously stupid and patently contrary to fact evaluations.

It is a fun game.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 14836

Gray wrote:

corrections wrote:

Mitch NZ wrote:

Gray wrote:

The aim of sports definitely isn't to entertain. The term "good at sports" has been used in the same way forever, there's no way it refers to how entertaining you are.

Well then for boo boo's analogy to work, the aim of music has to be to win, if not, it's irrelevant.

Sport has multiple aims. Are you suggesting that music's aim is to entertain?

I might say that the object of music can vary. There is music that is obviously geared to be appealing to the masses and other artists who use music more as a form of self expression.

Well of course it can (as can sports). The point being the analogy works just fine.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 14836

joe c wrote:

People wouldn't bother with music if it wasn't entertaining. Meh.

Plenty of people still would. What do you mean by entertaining?

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 14836

Mitch NZ wrote:

Wow, for a statement that I intended to provoke discussion, it sure did its job.

I'm surprised how riled up you guys get over something so flippant.

And corrections, you're incorrect, people who are bad at sports are frequently entertaining.

If they don't play for a team you support. In any case you missed my point. Some people who are bad at sports are entertaining in so bad its good ways (some are just pathetic). But their entertainment value bears no relation to their awareness of their lack of talent. The most entertaining bad athletes actually tend to be the ones who are blissfully unaware that they suck.

joe c · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:35 am **Posts:** 2914

corrections wrote:

joe c wrote:

People wouldn't bother with music if it wasn't entertaining. Meh.

Plenty of people still would. What do you mean by entertaining?

It's fun to play and fun to listen to?

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 14836

joe c wrote:

corrections wrote:

joe c wrote:

People wouldn't bother with music if it wasn't entertaining. Meh.

Plenty of people still would. What do you mean by entertaining?

It's fun to play and fun to listen to?

Is that the sole purpose for which music exists? Is that always the goal? What do you mean by fun?

joe c · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:35 am **Posts:** 2914

You're taking the robot thing too far.

nathan · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:42 am

Vil wrote:

All the "Hot Problems" and "Friday"s of the world are nothing compared to this:

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 14836

joe c wrote:

You're taking the robot thing too far.

I'm being serious. I think you have to answer all of those questions.

joe c · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:35 am **Posts:** 2914

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