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>listen to friend's favourite album
>it's total shit
>ask him what's so good about it
>he just keeps talking about how "personal" it is to him and how it's "helped him through hard times"
why do people do this?
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Music is the most emotional of artforms. If you attempt to "connect" with an album through over-intellectualizing it, forcing yourself to "appreciate" it because you want to keep up some jackass facade of yourself as an 'intellectual" then you shouldn't be allow to listen to music.
>But muh music theory. My professor said this and that.
What music "theory" 101 students (like the OP) seem to never understand is that music theory is descriptive, labeling techniques with cute names (Microtonalism, Aleatoricism, Serialism etc) post-hoc. It isn't prescriptive and makes no value judgement (which is impossible to determine, anyhow, since music "quality" is subjective).
The great composers didn't sit around and navel gaze about "theory," at least not until the 20th century when composition became too self-conscious and composers were basically making music for academic cred, but in most cases a composer or musician's structure and technique is always in service of the aesthetic or emotion he wants to convey, and no one is in any logical position to judge the quality of what kind of emotional or aesthetic someone else connects with.
Eat a cock, OP..
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