Brant Gaede Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Jonathan,If it were only popularity, why do shoppers buy more supermarket products with some kinds of music than with another?And even on the basis of popularity, I believe the attraction of a piece of music is based on the way the mind works since coercion and biological necessity are not involved.Obviously this is not the whole story of "meaning, content, expressiveness, etc." as you stated, but it is the start of the same.One caveat to that is that there are other factors at work that cause the popularity of a musical work like social proof (one of Ciuldini's principles of persuasion), bombardment over the media, etc., but the factor of attractiveness to the human mind, with a high position on the normative range of importance (which implies a valued meaning), has to be there for a song (or other musical work) to endure through the ages.Though I walk through the meat department with my head held highAnd am not afraid of the pork!The high prices are driving me to a consumptive dietAnd that's much better than a food riot!Walk on! Walk on! Walk on!--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Profit Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) Edited February 6, 2009 by Michael Stuart Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hfGAxfzIZshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5OK_zUwKz0lawlz am I doing objectivism right?!I've not listened to these, but you've mistaken OL for a bathroom. Go shit someplace else.--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Profit Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) Edited February 6, 2009 by Michael Stuart Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 It's been too long since I've done this but--Why so socialist?God-damned sociopath!--Brant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 It's been more than a decade now since Pigero tried to demonstrate the "objective" superiority of his tastes in music. When his lame little piece was criticized, and ridiculed, he had claimed that it was just a skeleton upon which he would be applying serious scholarly flesh. Alas, after these ten-plus years, no flesh has been added. Heres my stroll down memory lane (this content was also cross-posted to Solopassion several times, but Pigero dodged and evaded it, and never addressed any of the substance): Damn, what an ass-kicking I dished out! J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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