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42 points| vlugorilla | 4 months ago |stallman.org

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boomskats|4 months ago

I want to hear this jazz folk fusion Bulgarian wedding music now. He could have at least included a link or two :/

pcthrowaway|4 months ago

I doubt RMS would use any platform he could link to online. He likely listens to public domain music, copyleft music, or perhaps he pirates it.

reverius42|4 months ago

I can't stand his use of "c...rap" to describe rap/hip-hop. This is like the "Micro$oft" of musical genre hatred (and frankly comes across as slightly, um, racist? given his embrace of like every other genre in the world besides "harsh" rock/metal).

add-sub-mul-div|4 months ago

The rap/country part does sound less iconoclastic and more like a common attitude about music from the 1990s frozen in place since then.

I'd give him the benefit of the doubt that there's no racism behind it. But I struggle to see how wearing t-shirts lacks dignity while calling it "c..rap" music doesn't.

MarsIronPI|4 months ago

I actually agree with his conclusion. In my experience, rap is the only(?) genre of "music" that for the most part lacks a melodic structure. It (in my experience) is mostly rhythmic, which IMO is not very pleasant to listen to, because there isn't much to listen to. So while maybe I wouldn't refer to it as c...rap all the time, I think the phrase mostly expresses my feelings about the genre as a whole.

gitaarik|4 months ago

I always got the feeling with rap and hip hop that it's more about the style and how cool you are than it is about the music.

vehemenz|4 months ago

The ethos of rap music isn’t like the others. It’s not about musicality. I don’t know who it appeals to, but like RMS, I find it repulsive.