Jasmine running on Nostr: People sometimes ask me whether I know this song or these lyrics or this band or that ...
People sometimes ask me whether I know this song or these lyrics or this band or that artist, and then act perplexed when I don't.
But look, I have auditory processing issues. The only way I'm going to parse a bunch of words sung in English of all languages is while also reading them from paper.
But do you know how hard it is to do slow, guided reading of metaphorically pregnant text while being bombarded with a finished mix of a performance of a musical arrangement? I am busy taking in harmony and melody and voicings and counterpoint and all the rhythmic and micro-rhythmic elements, perceiving the emotional shape and nuance over time, filling up on the Gestalt of it!
It's hard!!! And it always was because my neuroqueer brain is sound and music. So I never found much joy in songs carried by artist image or lyrics, and I was ace and never wanted to fuck them either.
So no, I don't know who that is, but tell me joyfully please! Or don't, it's fine. Just don't be so judgy about it.
But look, I have auditory processing issues. The only way I'm going to parse a bunch of words sung in English of all languages is while also reading them from paper.
But do you know how hard it is to do slow, guided reading of metaphorically pregnant text while being bombarded with a finished mix of a performance of a musical arrangement? I am busy taking in harmony and melody and voicings and counterpoint and all the rhythmic and micro-rhythmic elements, perceiving the emotional shape and nuance over time, filling up on the Gestalt of it!
It's hard!!! And it always was because my neuroqueer brain is sound and music. So I never found much joy in songs carried by artist image or lyrics, and I was ace and never wanted to fuck them either.
So no, I don't know who that is, but tell me joyfully please! Or don't, it's fine. Just don't be so judgy about it.