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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TikTok is the memification of sound. Its **fascinating**
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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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For genre memes, there was electroswing ca. 2015, big bandy fedora type vibe
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One data point: my shanty take id the popularest thing I've said on twitter dot com.https://twitter.com/RichDecibels/status/1348950082209644544?s=19 …
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Sure BUT clear objective (though difficult) clear 'enemy', clear friends all of whom can be trusted to help overcome the enemy. The opposite of the miasma of disinformation/misinformation of the culture wars plus invisible threat of the virus.
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Have there been other musical memes?