This video demonstrates two things. One: screw "no new thing under the sun." Give mankind all the time until the heat death of the universe, and we will never stop coming up with new, amazing ways of expressing ourselves. Two: you can't get music until you understand how its fans interact with it. I don't think you can really get metal if you've never screamed the lyrics in cathartic fury from the depths of a mosh pit. I know I didn't really get folk music until the first time I sat in a circle of guitarists and singers. And I don't listen to Crunk or Bounce, but when I watch these boys dance, I grok their music.
Edit: Weston comments with the following quote by Donald Miller:
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
This reminds me of something Donald Miller wrote in Blue Like Jazz. I have actually found this true for some things in my life as well.
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"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way."
This reminds me of something Donald Miller wrote in Blue Like Jazz. I have actually found this true for some things in my life as well.
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"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
After that I liked jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way."