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terje
· 1 year ago
"...she seems to think it doesn’t matter if you remember the song as long as you remember how you felt while you were listening to it."
Increasingly, this seems to reflect the way I listen to music nowadays. I'm not sure whether it's because my musical library is vastly bigger and I listen to a much wider spectrum of artists and styles than I used to thanks to mp3 and the internet, or if it's because melody is less important today than it was 20 years ago. It's probably a combination of the two factors.
I remember an interview I read about a decade ago with Bugge Wesseltoft, a Norwegian jazz musician. He claimed that melody was dead - all possible combinations had been exhausted - and that today's music should focus on rhythm and style rather than exploring melody further.
jefito
· 1 year ago
I disagree with Bugge, if only because I love melody so much. He may very well be right.
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Increasingly, this seems to reflect the way I listen to music nowadays. I'm not sure whether it's because my musical library is vastly bigger and I listen to a much wider spectrum of artists and styles than I used to thanks to mp3 and the internet, or if it's because melody is less important today than it was 20 years ago. It's probably a combination of the two factors.
I remember an interview I read about a decade ago with Bugge Wesseltoft, a Norwegian jazz musician. He claimed that melody was dead - all possible combinations had been exhausted - and that today's music should focus on rhythm and style rather than exploring melody further.