I have my own vague personal rules of what is and what isn't music. Let's say a famous, artistic, pretentious dick of an artist releases an album with only one track and that track features only the sound of a rockslide crashing into houses or people being shot with machine guns. That's not music to me. Even though it may require a bit of thinking to sort out all the reasons why that is, it's clear that I have some sort of definition of what I think of as music. If all those rules are broken, I no longer think of what I'm hearing as music.
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