Comments on: #108 Appearing to enjoy Classical Music

By: A. Nonymous

A. Nonymous — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:57:46 +0000

The composition is not copyrighted but the performance is. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:59:38 +0000

How about the classical guitar?
Almost every one likes listening to it.

By: sam adler

sam adler — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:36:11 +0000

will, just because some white people don’t find this post as hilarious as you apparently do, doesn’t mean they’re cranks who don’t like satire. It’s just that this isnt satire, which, by definition, rests on a premise,* and if the premise doesn’t hold up, as the commenters here argue, then neither does the satire. The stuff-white-people-like guy hits the nail on the head often, but this time he’s wide of the mark, projecting his own failure to appreciate a wonderful art form onto his fellow caucasians, wallowing in (trading on) his his gift for snarkiness because he’s too narrow-minded or lazy to learn to appreciate the cerebral/ sensual/spiritual/powerfully emotional experience that classical music can be.

*satire: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:54:27 +0000

Wow, seeing a lot of people getting upset. Guess we can add satire to the list of stuff cranky white people don’t like.

By: Francisco

Francisco — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:13:05 +0000

You, sir, are complete moron. I happen to really enjoy classical music. Not all of it, of course. I prefer Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Dvorak. Hell, even John Williams composes some really remarkable pieces. But, to say that white people, ALL white people, pretend to enjoy classical is just about the most asinine statement I’ve heard in quite some time. It’s clear you have no taste for it, and that’s fine. But, why assume others don’t as well? You’re clearly a very limited, and ignorant, person. Fuck you.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:46:12 +0000

You’re a fucking dumb cunt

By: Fuck You

Fuck You — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:33:56 +0000

No. He falls under minimalism.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:30:51 +0000

You should know that Philip Glass actually falls under the same category as John Williams/Danny Elfman! Pop music with instruments used in the classical era.

By: Eyal

Eyal — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:32:35 +0000

I agree with everything you said here other than the stuck up snobs comment. Also, this whole thing is funnier than true, I live in NY and see a lot of non-white enjoying classical music.

By: Donovan

Donovan — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:19:06 +0000

Classical music was the Pop Music of the 1700s. That’s a fact. But nowadays, people have many styles to choose from. As a society, we tend to choose the easy road, that is undeniable. The result is today, the mediocrity is everywhere.

“Yet all of these pale in comparison to classical music, which has used white guilt to exist for over a century beyond its relevance.”

Beyond its relevance?. Everything you listen to today, is extracted from classical music. It is a very simplified and mundane version. I’m sorry that you can’t recognize that you are listening to the same harmonic progression over and over again with lyrics that are pretty stupid to be honest.

Having said that, I have to admit that white people seem to have taken ownership over Classical Music and that’s a shame, because they are usually stuck up snobs. And it is a shame because most composers were poor, so it had nothing to do with economic status, they wrote the music out of love and for the sake of art. Too many people hate the music before even giving it a try. There are so many periods, styles within classical music, that I’m sure anyone would find something they like.