From Jeff Barszcz Sent Fri, Jun 4th 1999, 19:26
From Jeff Barszcz Sent Fri, Jun 4th 1999, 19:26
At 10:09 AM 6/4/99 +0100, you wrote:
>On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 14:32:43 Jeff Barszcz wrote:
>
>>What do you mean by "feeling," though? Are you talking about emotion?
>>That's dangerously subjective ground.
>
>Dangerously?? :-) Care to explain exactly how?
Well, I guess I just meant that it's not a good idea to generalize or
speculate about what emotions a song evokes or how emotional it is.
Emotions are, of course, a subjective experience. What one person
experiences when listening might not be what another experiences. Maybe
"dangerously" wasn't a good word to use. I just meant that maybe it's not
worth using emotion as way to evaluate music. In fact, the only way to
know what a song has to offer is to listen for yourself. Writing about
music is usually useless. Just my opinion. BTW, I don't mean to put down
discussion on this list. I've gotten a lot out of it and enjoy finding out
about stuff I haven't heard or hearing about upcoming releases, etc. I
just don't get much out of people talking about what emotions a song evokes
because I've found that I often react differently. As I said, that's just me.
Jeff