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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wonder if there is a music-theoretic answer for that
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Vibrational hums/hymns. . Different flavors, universal transmission
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Lullabies, shanties, spirituals, chants — same source, different executions
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100 gecs is the gen z, trump era counterargument. It’s dissonant and ratchets up anxiety levels. It makes me feel awful, but its also grown on me over time? Feels like it could only have been made in a chronically shitty timehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z97qLNXeAMQ …
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