#if you're REALLY lucky they'll break out the big boy word Leitmotif and be all smart about it for a bit
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I am BEGGING YouTube essayists who don't know shit about music theory to stop attempting to analyze music. Bob you don't know what you're talking about. Bob this analysis sucks. Bob you are saying nothing!!
#Like I don't want to gatekeep here#I want to believe that people who are not intimately familiar with the Theory Of It All will have interesting new perspectives#but it is SO CONSISTENT that (at least in the video essay space) a given essayist's thoughts about music will boil down to:#'it uses jingle bells so it sounds like christmas :)'#'it sounds spooky and exotic so it sounds like the desert :)'#'I think this track sounds serene so it's introspective :)'#WHY DOES IT SOUND THAT WAY BOB.#WHAT IS THE MUSIC DOING TO MAKE YOU FEEL THAT WAY BOB.#WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE MUSICAL TROPES AT PLAY HERE BOB.#if you're REALLY lucky they'll break out the big boy word Leitmotif and be all smart about it for a bit#as if leitmotifs are the final and most complex aspect of music theory.#we need to put the concept of leitmotifs up on a shelf for a bit. LEARN SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT MUSIC THEORY BOB.#AAAAAAUGH#gnnoying
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