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Why do experimental musicians almost always ugly?
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Why do experimental musicians almost always ugly?
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Tortured lives
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You have to be attractive to make popular music. If you're ugly then you have to play ugly music.
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>>63743039
Elliott Smith was ugly and he made popular music
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>>63743039

Roger Waters was a horse when he was young, though.
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>>63743058
Never heard of him
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Stockhausen was a qt when he was young
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>>63743085
yeah but Syd Barrett and David Gilmour were qts
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No Wave was a pretty ugly era, yeah.

Glenn Branca was pretty cute though.
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being ugly makes you more isolated. being more isolated you listen to more music, and in much more depth. you then realize popular music trash is boring and generic, so you go for the uncharted territory
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>>63743158
Only a pleb speaks in absolutes
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I'm not convinced that's true.

If it is though, it could be because less attractive people tend to be less popular, thus spend more time alone, thus are freer to explore music and other media away from "what people like", with nobody telling them to "turn that weird shit off"?
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>>63743181
you just...
>Oh, never mind
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>>63743221
the number of times people told me to turn off pulse demon is just staggering. specially on parties
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>>63743450
I had a friend who almost strangled me when the 20 second ending to uneven compromise came on
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>>63743127
This
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I'm super cute and make noise and sound collage albums.
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>>63743547

I'd like some proof, Viola.
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the only reason they make that shit is because they're spergy dorks

spergy dorks are ugly
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>>63742983
not true
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>>63743547
That's because you're musically incompetent
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>>63743547
noise and sound collage arent experimental. they might have been like 40 years ago
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>>63743593
What's experimental now then?
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>>63743577

Experimental music doesn't exist anymore. Everything that can be done with sound has been.
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>>63743660
Would like to know this too. Can't think of anything off the top of my head, but something is truly experimental in this day and age, I think we'll feel it.
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>>63743562
I look almost identical to the guy from the film Short Term 12.
>>63743587
Not true. The opposite, in fact. I'm not only producing noise, it's just one of my projects.
>>63743593
Sure it is. Everything I do with my noise stuff is literally me experimenting with different techniques and recording the results.
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>>63743713
Speaking as a mostly impartial bystander, I feel that Death Grips is experimental. It depends on what triggers the experimental threshold for you though. At this point I feel like if it's hard to liken the sound of your music to another artist then it's pretty experimental.
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>>63743139
But, Lydia Lunch and Michael Gira were both qt3.14
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Because they are NEETS and can't get women due to their taste in music

-montie
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>>63743712
now now you're just being pessimistic
technology and human ingenuity will always find something you yourself couldn't have imagined earlier
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>>63743719
thats some twisted logic. i could for example say everything i do with my guitar stuff is literally me experimenting with different techniques and recording the results.

doesnt make it experimental music lmao. you might be stupid friend
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I think it's mostly people who don't plan to ever have kids
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>>63743806
Well, sorry you feel that way.
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>>63743712

But Todd^2, I can think of plenty of gimmicky things that have never been done because they are shitty gimmicks.
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xiu xiu aren't ugly
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>>63743712
>Everything that can be done with sound has been.

until you can find me an album consisting solely of tibetian throat singing run through a vocoder you are wrong
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>>63744041
I can do this in half an hour, but I think it'd sound better as auto tune. Should I?
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>>63744203
yes

vocoder > autotune
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>>63744253
I'm not going to write keyboard parts for some dumb mu bullshit, homie.
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e x c u s e me
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>>63744338
>not dedicating your life to memes

i dont want to hear it if you're not going to pour your heart into it desu
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>>63744403
Fair enough.
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>>63743058
He wasn't that bad desu.
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>>63744394
>experimental
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>>63743094
What the fuck
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>>63743112
this
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ummmmmm what?
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