Rap isn't music :

[JamesBond007]

P.S.
Now, if rap is for low IQ people who do not see the bigger picture, and if rap lowers our IQ …

Well, what about Arthur Schopenhauer and his take on books and reading:




I did not know Schopenhauer from a bar of soap, but a brief look into his writings show that his thinking was also influenced by Buddhism, but of which teachings he (as we all do) presented a distorted mirror.

Buddhist teachings go something like this:
Intellectual understanding is not enough, one needs an experience of the intellectually comprehended in order for the proper realization of it to dawn. But realizations are not enough, one needs to put them into practice for the wisdom to develop.
Mindfulness practice enables one to become objective to one’s own thought processes …

His thoughts of ‘suffering’ though sounded quite strange …



Fascinating.
Thanks for this thread 007.

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.

And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal—that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is always riding at last forgets how to walk. Such, however, is the case with many men of learning: they have read themselves stupid.

It is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

For to read in every spare moment, and to read constantly, is more paralysing to the mind than constant manual work, which, at any rate, allows one to follow one's own thoughts. Just as a spring, through the continual pressure of a foreign body, at last loses its elasticity, so does the mind if it has another person's thoughts continually forced upon it.--Schopenhauer

1.)There have always been bookfull blockheads or people who have read many books poorly. The ancient Grreeks called them sophmores and Hitler was such a sophmore.

2,) The publishing industry was less competitive in Schopenhauer's time so there were a lot more inferior quality books in circulation so to modern people he sounds hyperbolic

3.)Schopenhauer never consciously formulated rules for syntopical reading but may have practiced it out of common sense habit but was unaware of its larger significance

[oszkar07]

That's what makes Western music charts of the late 2000s to now so horseshit. There is no diversity in the charts anymore. As you correctly pointed out in the 90s there was great variety

True and also as Rick Beato explains modern music and song writing is not as musically complex or dynamic as it has been in the past.

[Demhat]

True and also as Rick Beato explains modern music and song writing is not as musically complex or dynamic as it has been in the past.

Rise and dominance of Rap. And as several members already pointed out. Rap is not very melodic/musical and the lyrics are meaningless phrases and lines stringed together.

Like listen to this shit. The only good thing about it is the melody. And even that is sampled from the 70s. It is praised by clowns as some kind of "masterpiece". While the lyrics are absolutely horrible. And we had some fools here trying to put down European rap by praising US rap as at least "lyricaly good" in comparison. Which of course is the complete opposite of the truth. All rap is below average in musical sense, but at least German rap is 10 times more lyrical than US rap from my own observation.

I mean listen to this. It could be written by a 10 year old. Mumbling Auto-tune crap. What are these lyrics . And this kind of talentless clowns are multi millionaires in the States. 564m views and read the comments you would think this guy is a re-incarnation of Goethe combined with Beethoven lol