I don’t think poems written in English affect me at all, they either end up too moot in message to actually matter or too long and wordy to speak out, and the lyrics in songs feel repetitive and single dimensional, I can’t even remember the last time I heard a lyric and liked it for its message

  • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    Does the entirety of 2 (and the hybrids between them) art forms broadly considered fundamental to humanity and with a history spanning back before history suck in one language’s evolutionary path?

    Um no. No it does not.

    Maybe you could be more specific? What eras are you looking at? what artistic forms? what traditions?

    What do you even relate to? Are you after stuff that is extremely technical? Things that are fun to sing? Nonsense that makes you laugh? Postmodern stuff playing with or subverting traditional forms? Are there particular particular emotions you’d like to see expressed? Or themes that interest you?

    This actually kind of annoys me, I feel like it’s not really less reactionary than denigrating the entirety of any other language’s linguistic art. People on this instance are generally pretty good about pointing out reactionary tendencies but when the institutions being criticised come from european and especially anglo culture it often flies under the radar. Just because the political hegemony and appetites of the elites are hideous and cruel doesn’t make the artistic work of people within that culture meritless.

    While it’s true that certain forms of art have origins in reactionary movements or propaganda, or represent frustrating elite tastes, or are overly commercial, or just not to your taste; describing entire categories as garbage based on a language or culture is throwing a huge volume of artistic work done by all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons.