Talentuoso, a large part of my annoyance is directed at this comment by Dino
It's a track from 1978 that is undoubtedly pathetic, there is no doubt about that. I don't see why music should be widespread everywhere. To make poor musicians work?
"pathetic" does not mean "I don't like it"; regarding the fact that "there is no doubt about that," I tried to offer at least a different opinion, arguing it, even if slightly, from an academic point of view (and that is what the references to aesthetic foundations and Eno's writings refer to) but placing it above all in the realm of taste (if you say you don't like something, I don't understand why I shouldn't say that I do.
Furthermore, I take a stand against the reference to poor musicians.
I will be aggressive and sincere. To me, anyone who speaks this way about any other artist on the face of the earth, who after saying "I don't like it" adds "they are poor [at it]" is simply frustrated, rude, and know-it-all. I continue to be someone who speaks very calmly about Allevi, even though I do not appreciate his music, and more than once I have "challenged" my musician and musicologist friends to truly argue Allevi's musical inferiority, based on the analysis of his pieces and his statements on poetics. Instinctively, the scale of a forum discussion where a little group of loser nerds (myself included) gather to speak ill of the whole wide world, making silly jokes about other people's work, horrifies me. It is a matter of civilization, of manners. Some time ago, I strongly criticized a journalist for giving a "musicological" introduction at a concert in Cremona. I said, verbatim, that in the city of musicologists, one could deny the stage to someone who was not a musicologist. A relatively calm statement, in a sense. A person who knew more than me told me that my statement was fascist. And they were right. I was ashamed and corrected my course. My taste, my judgment, however argued and supported by studies, is personal, partial, and often unrequested. In short, people should calm down.
In this sense, I imagine it takes very little argumentative strength to respond to Talentuoso regarding the possibility of speaking well of someone you like... negative action causes harm, positive action does not. But in my use of the expression "speaking ill," I meant to imply attacking needlessly, transforming what is a subjective judgment into an absolute judgment, the kind that often characterizes children, pets, and neighbors. I do not like this type of judgment; I consider them insults, not judgments. They are not interesting argued opinions; they are swear words, exclamations. You aren't saying "guys, now let me explain why this person has defrauded the entire world," you are just saying "sh*t! Asshole!". The informative value of "there is no doubt about that" is null; the phrase means "this opinion is unarguable, true by assumption, and anyone who says otherwise will be censored." I am taking the discussion to the extreme, as the guy who called me a fascist did, to make you understand that saying something is disgusting doesn't require divine science, nor does it prove we are great people or good musicians. To say that we like something, instead, infuses positivity and reaffirms the true purpose of music: making us feel good.
This does not mean one does not have the right to their own tastes. I don't like Allevi, I don't like Bocelli, I don't like Massenet, I don't like the crazy Nina for the sake of Paisiello, I don't like Fabri Fibra. But because of this, I do not consider all these people to be poor composers, fraudsters, nouveau riche, and other things of that sort...
