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hopecomesbacktolife · 7 months ago

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classical music rant ahead~

I’m not gonna reblog the post itself because people can’t be normal in the notes* but oh my god that “if it sounds like X, it’s Y composer” post is the most infuriatingly, wildly inaccurate thing. “mansplaining” for Wagner?!? REALLY?!? Saying Bach sounds “like a vampire” what does that even meANNNN. don’t get me started on the Beethoven (!!) and Shostakovich ones or I will turn into an incoherent seething mess. it’s worse than just being inaccurate even, it’s insulting to their music and range how inaccurate that user’s descriptions are.

like. there’s so many ways to make FUNNY posts about classical music!!! throwback to my prof bringing in shot glasses and grape juice when we covered Tristan and Isolde! Throwback to my cinnaminim meme!! Throwback to the [redacted] symphony members MEME GROUP where we EXCLUSIVELY SHARED CLASSICAL MUSIC MEMES. throwback to my Bach shirt with CHICKENS ON IT. Composer memes. Symphony memes. Translation memes. Oboi. drunk sugar plum fairy. old twoset skits. like.

I just. keep classical music accessible, yes. criticize it, yes! love it, yes! meme on it, yes!! remix it in sillygoofy ways! yes! Be silly and unserious or serious and yearning about it! Or both/all/more all at once! by all means!!! just. don’t make a joke that’s unfunny because it’s wildly inaccurate, then get mad at me for not laughing. 😐 like. lemme just call you the scarecrow because of this wild strawman fallacy logic you’re exhibiting.

*apparently some tumblr users can’t understand the concept of “this joke isn’t funny and it’s probably because the ‘joke’ isn’t really very accurate to the subject matter itself” because any time someone in the notes says that, people accuse them of being “elitist about classical music” like bro what. that is just. false equivalence. saying a joke isn’t funny because it’s inaccurate isn’t elitism it’s just the truth

#personal #what a stupid thing to get so incensed about at 10pm on a Friday night but good lord #I’m sorry but if someone saying ‘I don’t get the joke it’s not funny because it’s inaccurate’ makes you immediately jump to calling them an #elitist and accusing them of being gatekeeping?? uh. bro… are you like. okay. like #actually maybe go listen to some new world symphony second movement or Mahler 5 second movement and you’ll calm down #<- referencing the ‘maybe you’ll calm down’ meme #I know I’m biased but. seriously what the fuck #there’s so many legitimately funny things to say and meme on abt the classical music world why make an unfunny joke and then get mad when i #don’t laugh 😐😐#then again what do I know I only have a multihundredthousanddollar piece of paper saying I’m good at this or something #<- which BY THE WAY. HEY. is not a requirement for enjoying classical music so DONT @ ME. I mention that only to say I am externally peer r #viewed certified as knowing of what I speak. ok. ok? got it? we cool?#yes. you need absolutely 0 credentials to enjoy classical music. you need exactly 0 credentials to be knowledgeable about classical music.#you do not need to even be the tiniest knowledgeable about classical music to enjoy classical music. all of this is true.#I mention my expensive piece of paper solely to say. maybe if credentialed people don’t find the joke accurate or funny it’s just.. not 😐#<- if EVEN credentialed people but somehow my word ‘even’ got deleted. anyways #anyways. this probably matters to 1.5 people but it got me incensed #if you’re going to clown on classical music at least be FUNNY about it and that requires your joke to at least be mildly relevant #there’s enough actual elitism around classical music you are simply missing the mark & muddying waters by throwing that term around #and using it inaccurately. you are in fact accomplishing the opposite of what you ostensibly intended

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