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Old 09-22-2016, 12:20 PM   #12871 (permalink)
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Not to your taste, usually.
I think I'll stick to calling a spade a spade.

I'm not using boring to mean slow or sparse or minimal, I'm using boring in the sense that the music feels so overdone and pointless that it bores me. I've heard the penatonic scale, Satriani has nothing to offer me. This means that even something upbeat or fast can bore me.
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Old 09-22-2016, 12:22 PM   #12872 (permalink)
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I think I'll stick to calling a spade a spade.

I'm not using boring to mean slow or sparse or minimal, I'm using boring in the sense that the music feels so overdone and pointless that it bores me. I've heard the penatonic scale, Satriani has nothing to offer me. This means that even something upbeat or fast can bore me.
My only point is that you shouldn't put the "boring" label on it if it obviously isn't. Your initial post describing it as boring came off as if you weren't basing it off your taste, but instead putting the label on it as if it deserved to have the label.

Maybe that's my own fault for taking what you said as different than what you meant.
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Old 09-22-2016, 12:23 PM   #12873 (permalink)
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My only point is that you shouldn't put the "boring" label on it if it obviously isn't.
But...if it bores me, then it absolutely is boring. Am I speaking Spanish?
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Old 09-22-2016, 12:24 PM   #12874 (permalink)
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Does an Adele cover work?
If you're gonna do an ironic cover of an artist who is known for singing then why in the **** did you not sing?
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Old 09-22-2016, 12:24 PM   #12875 (permalink)
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If you're gonna do an ironic cover of an artist who is known for singing then why in the **** did you not sing?
1. It's not ironic.
2. I like Adele because she's fat and inspiring.
3. I did sing a little bit, but my guitar was closer to the mic.
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But...if it bores me, then it absolutely is boring. Am I speaking Spanish?
No. But the music isn't boring if it obviously isn't. You wouldn't call a TV show boring if it's full of action.
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Old 09-22-2016, 12:26 PM   #12877 (permalink)
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No. But the music isn't boring if it obviously isn't. You wouldn't call a TV show boring if it's full of action.
Dude. You can't be this estupido. I would call a TV show full of action boring if the action was flat, poorly done, pointless, and not exciting in any way (aka it bores me).
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Dude. You can't be this estupido. I would call a TV show full of action boring if the action was flat, poorly done, pointless, and not exciting in any way (aka it bores me).
Than you're mislabeling something that isn't meant to be labeled. Of course it all boils back to taste, but when you say something is boring, you're going to get people (like me) that think otherwise based on the root of why it isn't boring at all.

I think i'm using boring as a different term than you are, hence our differing takes on the word.
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Than you're mislabeling something that isn't meant to be labeled. Of course it all boils back to taste, but when you say something is boring, you're going to get people (like me) that think otherwise based on the root of why it isn't boring at all.

I think i'm using boring as a different term than you are, hence our differing takes on the word.
Yes. I am saying that something that bores me is inherently boring because that is what words mean. You are saying that boring is...slow music?
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Yes. I am saying that something that bores me is inherently boring because that is what words mean. You are saying that boring is...slow music?
I think that's where we're getting confused, yes. I generally don't call music boring unless it really is boring. Which is ironic because I love post-rock. Yes, I'm admitting to my own faults.
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