vicarz | (no subject)

I am addicted to http://www.limbikfreq.com/ radio. I've always said that to me music is an emotional experience. Words / lyrics screw it up. The first time I hear a song, I just hear the emotional content. This can be greatly and permanently affected by the conditions under which I hear it. This is my biggest compliment and insult about music and art - it conveys an emotion, but an emotion is outside the cortex. Emotions are reptilian. Lizards fear, snakes hate. Monkeys grieve, rats snuggle - is sadness intelligent?

What I liked about older music was the complexity of the lyrics when I did hear them, the vocabulary. More modern music tries to pander to a wider audience by saying less, making the feeling more marketable, and sticking with a 3rd grade vocabulary. I always love foreign music because all I will ever know is the emotional message - the words will always be from my own brush-strokes.

Limbik plays a lot of sad music. Somehow that seems more intelligent to me.