When music is boring, it speaks to a lack of what people turn to music for, which is a connection. It might be physical, it might be mental, it might be emotional—but we all want to feel something when we hear a song. If it moves us in some way (whether it’s in our hearts, minds, or hips), we like it. We might even need that connection, over and over again, if it reaches down deep enough inside of us. I write about music for a living, so it’s my job to describe how or why something moves me. But even for a critic, it still boils down to a response in your gut that you can’t ever totally explain. Music triggers a primal yet mysterious force inside of us. It’s universal, and yet the connections that are made vary from person to person. We don’t understand it, but when it’s there, we know. Sometimes we don’t connect, even when it seems that the whole rest of the world is, and that’s when music becomes uninvolving, even unlistenable. Hence, boring.
Source: The A.V. Club
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Steven Hyden goes in on “boring.” I don’t have a problem with using the word, or “average” or “milquetoast” or my...
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