Can we get an example? Because after reading the thread I am still as unknowing as I was about what you are trying to start a conversation on.
It is widely accepted that music, as an artistic expression, as been used to convey emotion, both to arise it and to lessen it, since its inception. To argue that “uncurated or just music in general” can be “overstimulating” makes quite the claim.
Music and songs are easily associated to states of mind and entire genres exist around one specific emotion. From classical, to blues, heavy metal, fado, jazz, ethnic, every song or music ever written by a human being conveys meaning.
If, and this is a elephant sized if, what you are trying to debate on is what most will call “elevator music”, that non descript, hollow, shallow, shell of ordered sounds thinly veiled to resemble music, then, personally, I’m glad it not a much more divulged genre.
If not, then, please, give us an example.
I’ll leave an example of what I listen to when I need a sound wall to fill the background while I work with my hands.
Dead Combo - Movimentos Perpétuos
Or, for something a bit more traditional:
You’re thinking about the VW Bus, now presented as the Buzz?
Unsurprising.
It was never about revamping the classic, in its concept, but capitalizing on nostalgia.
By contrast, Renault brought back their legendary Model 5 and regardless the car being a behemoth compared to the original, it captured and delivered a new car built on a nostalgic concept.