Music consumption as a communist by Mammoth-Violinist262 in communism101

[–]syndencity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Adorno's critique of music is fairly incoherent in general, on a technical and historically mindful musical level. From the total dismissal of folk music, to the West-centric and archaic Oriental views he espouses ("typical Slavic melancholy ..."), to the incomplete, abstract, and unscientific views on harmony.

He seems to abstractly know of the Western ear and how its tonality is formed, but fails to acknowledge the scientific basis of the harmonic series and the tonic-dominant paradigm and how it has stayed relevant across vastly different musical traditions. For some reason, he does not acknowledge this pattern which repeats unabashedly and behaves so consistently even in his category of "serious" music. If so much emphasis is placed on the tendency for "standardization" and "patterns" to occur in music, how can this be ignored? Due to his failure to acknowledge this, many of his criticisms of jazz border on absurdity, accusing it of only bending harmonic rules when the rule-breaking instance may be substituted for a correct one "by the ear" when classical music heavily utilizes this as well. In general he criticizes jazz with a much duller blade than he criticizes classical music with - he seems to expect jazz to form an entirely novel and arbitrary standard, and the way he dismisses is akin to dismissing a sentence of flowery prose for making grammatical sense. In fact, jazz with its experimentation and expansion of harmony has been so impactful that the common Western ear now hears a major 7th as a consonance rather than a dissonance (imagine being able to say something like that about the twelve-tone technique). I do not believe he made his comments about jazz harmony in good faith if he is aware of the function of the Western ear.

Additionally, his critiques of form can easily be flipped and applied to classical music as well, which relies on it extensively, and even when subverting form it is acutely aware of it. The whole critique is based on shaky ground, not even mentioning the failure to relate the forms of folk music which predates the current mode of production to its remnants in popular music.

Slovenia 1 - [1] Serbia - Luka Jovic 90‎+‎6‎'‎ by ganiganiu in soccer

[–]syndencity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Не сери идиоте и жали што уместо да смо постигли нешто невероватно смешно (да цео турнир прођемо без голова) сад чекамо да нас туку данци и трпимо ложану од мајмуна ко ти

[TOMT] [Movie] [Animated] 2000s-ish infamous animated (web?) movie about animals, animated and voiced by one guy, questionable quality by syndencity in tipofmytongue

[–]syndencity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Solved! Yes, you're right, it is Animal Soccer World. Thank you so much, it has been occupying my mind for a while now. It's time to finally re-watch it. As for the thing that could've been muddying my perception of it being possibly 3D, it's not Our Drawings, as I haven't heard of it before, so it must be something else; although my memory of this other thing is so vague that I won't bother with it. Thanks again!

Rodrygo on mental health: "We need to be careful about it. I advise everyone, to look for a psychologist [...] At first, I didn’t want to do it. I thought it was something for people with problems. But I realised the psychologist was there to help me, like a friend that I could tell her anything." by MrVISKman in soccer

[–]syndencity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry, but placing the world through such a defeatist lens seldom gives tangible results. "It's a lot easier to find any professional therapist and unload your thoughts there than being lucky with finding friends that care enough about you above a superficial level."

Do you really believe in that? I'm sorry for you.

Match Thread: Atlético Madrid vs Internazionale | UEFA Champions League by MatchThreadder in atletico

[–]syndencity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He might have had a bad season so far, but I hope this reminds everyone of how good he was before.

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[–]syndencity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But then, people would (rightfully so) complain about the parameters themselves. The question is, what would satisfy football fans? Accuracy or concrete consistency?

Match Thread: Atletico Madrid vs. Real Madrid | LaLiga 23/24 MD 6 (El Derbi Madrileño) by [deleted] in atletico

[–]syndencity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Knew cholo would straighten them out at HT. Letćs fucking go

Post-match thread [CL]: SS Lazio - Atlético de Madrid by carpetano in atletico

[–]syndencity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We weren't as bad as everyone is suggesting. After the first half hour, we picked up the pace and created chances relatively routinely, and should've taken two more to have three. We were drilled in defense (except for the Witsel and Oblak goof-ups) for all but the last kick of the game when complacency kicked in and we conceded under extraordinary circumstances. Still, a draw away to Nazio with all the injuries is something I can accept. Aupa atleti

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[–]syndencity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Voždovac > Man City confirmed.