Is the sea shanty stuff is just a passing fancy or a marker of a deeper mood, definitely comfort food type vibes in a stormy zeitgeist. Domestic cozy in a gale 🤔
Have there been other musical memes?
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Now that I think of it, a lot of music from fraught, uncertain contexts where everything is kinda chronically shitty all around but you have to live with it because there’s no exit has this kind of strongly rhythmic, bluesy energy to it
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Whereas music from comfy safe and stable modern milieus is high dissonance and the opposite of comforting. Various descendants of rock.
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Sea shanty theorem: SNR(environment) + SNR(working music) = constant.
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Meh, barbershop quartet with Brooklyn (visual) stylings. Unless it morphs into something weird, it'll be gone in a month.
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yeah agreed. it's such a rich remix culture. i personally love the sea shanties layered duets, watched them with the kids tonight.
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One data point: my shanty take id the popularest thing I've said on twitter dot com.
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