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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON\n\nWATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE\n\nThere are two kinds of people in this world...\n\nOkay there are way more than two kinds of people - like, for example, people who don\u2019t care about any of this at all. But let\u2019s forget about them and be reductionist just for fun.\n\nAs I was saying, there are two kinds of people in this world: those whose enjoyment of a trick is spoiled when they find out how it\u2019s done, and those who still love the show no matter what they know.\n\nIf you\u2019ve followed my thread up to this point, you know that I\u2019ve been using multiple points of entry to make the argument that all music (and all art in general) is somehow an illusion. Since this is the fourth and final episode in my ILLUSION series, it\u2019s the perfect time to get to the main point, which is that for all true music lovers - and really most of everyone else - IT DOESN\u2019T MATTER.\n\nKnowing or not knowing how something is created makes no difference to someone who loves the music. In fact, I\u2019d argue that KNOWING makes the listener enjoy it MORE. Having some idea - or even getting a detailed analysis of - how a musical work is put together, increases appreciation because you see how much effort and craft and thought and inspiration go into its creation, and how even an end result that seems exceedingly simple contains dozens or hundreds of decisions and skills, some of which even the creator is unconscious of.\n\nWhen I listen to a song, the more I relate to it the more I want to know how it came to be - from the reason for its inception to why it sounds like it does, to what the lyrics connect to, to the underlying chord progression, to how a certain passage is played or sung. The more I know, the more into it I get. And when I pull back and just listen for pleasure again, I can still feel it and be carried away by it. I\u2019d say I\u2019m MORE INSIDE it than if I didn\u2019t know as much.\n\nNo amount of learning and discovering, and overall tipping the scales that much more from ignorance to knowledge, is going to spoil the fun. It doesn\u2019t take away the emotional or psychological impact. It deepens it. It makes the music stick with you longer, maybe even forever, and colors your enjoyment of and connection to every other type of music related to it. Which ultimately is EVERYTHING.\n\nWe get a lot of information thrown at us from birth to death. Some central and vital. Some peripheral and optional. Some accurate and some ... um ... way less than fucking accurate. Some we want and thrive on. Some we push away and are scared of. Hell, we are still in what\u2019s called the Information Age! Which just means that the things we can know can be found easier and faster than ever before.\n\nWe all filter this information in different ways and for a multitude of reasons. Just like with music, we choose to listen more to what draws us in the most, and maybe should explore things we hear that sound foreign or less comfortable a wee touch more.\n\nWhether we explore beyond our comfort zones or not, there\u2019s one thing we should ALL do more of: SEEK OUT KNOWLEDGE. FIND THE TRUTH. DIG DEEPER. However it\u2019s phrased, it means not settling for a surface understanding of anything we have any interest in, or taking one person\u2019s or source\u2019s word for ANYTHING.\n\n...\n\n\n--- \n\nThis episode is sponsored by \n\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\n\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicisnotagenre/support\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices