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Re:Where did the melody go? (2017) by Kye on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:25AM (#20685078)
>> "Modern music has regressed into something primitive and tribal. In other words, completely mind numbing garbage. And it just gets worse every year."

The blending of hip hop into everything has been a huge boon for the evolution of western music just like the merger with jazz was in the '50s.

"Primitive"/"tribal" people had some good ideas that sometimes get lost in our panicked attempts to set ourselves ever-further above our roots.

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Re:Where did the melody go? (2017) by mwcampbell on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:35PM (#20691669)
> panicked attempts to set ourselves ever-further above our roots.

I honestly don't know what you're talking about here. What's an example of such an attempt that you think was/is misguided?

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Re:Where did the melody go? (2017) by Kye on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:45PM (#20692028)
See: the quote in my comment.

codesushi42 frames tribalness and primalness in music as a regression.

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Re:Where did the melody go? (2017) by codesushi42 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:24PM (#20699012)
Yeah, who needs sophistication anyway? Let's go back to painting caves and naval gazing.
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