Name four art forms that do nothing for you

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Rap/Hip-Hop (sucks with pitifully few exceptions)

Nouveau Country (flag waving from a tractor - REALLY sucks)

Soundtracks of video game music (WTF?)

Dub reggae (especially people who listen almost exclusively to Dub) SUPER BORING

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The Dispossessed is a piece of mushbrained Marxist twaddle. Beloved by lit-crit types, but that’s what it is.

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“Art Forms” or Genres? And why are so many people including Sports & Pastimes? (NASCAR & Scrapbooking?)

I’ve certainly got preferences, but I’d rather not limit myself.

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  1. Traditional ballroom dancing. I suppose it was hot stuff in its day and a dance form that seniors can manage without hurting themselves, but still, it’s just boring to watch.
  2. Mime. I mean, c’mon.
  3. Performance art. Get a job, people.
  4. That particular form of belly dancing in which the dancers are clad in heavy fabrics from head to toe and wave their arms about. Maybe they do something with their legs and torsos, I dunno. Can’t see under all that costuming.
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Just four? :wink: Ok, then I’m going to break them down into my own categories. For fun and profit, doncha know, and because most probably don’t fall into an “art” form or otherwise. In order of most dislike…

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[li]The Family (mine) Values Tour: Country music (which I appreciate old school, like Johnny Cash and the like), NASCAR, 80s fashion (I think it’s just now catching up to where they live the first time) and The Reader’s Digest (big purveyor of glurge and assorted urban legends) and reality shows. Gratuitius displays of patriotism available on demand along with Footprints in the Sand crocheted bookmarks. :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: [/li][li]Hoity Toity Imperial Collection: Opera (I’ve seen Candide and liked it, plus I’m sure I’d enjoy Don Giovanni, but the rest thus far hasn’t been for me) and abstract art (and yes I’ve looked at a Pollack and Mondrian paintings in the wild, and though I can appreciate the aesthetics involved, I suppose I’m not sophisticated enough).[/li][li]The I’m Too Bitter Department: Romance novels/films and girlie (read bows, satin and pink, oh my!) decorating. Now I’ve never liked this stuff anyway, but I’m assuming after my heartbreak of a couple of years ago, I’ve grown ever more disdainful. This in one area of my life that I doubt I’ll ever try to correct.[/li][li]Cornucopia of Leftovers: Golf (makes me sleepy), slapstick (too much Three Stooges re-runs in the morning growing up) and Middle Eastern cuisine (which I want to love, but haven’t found anything agreeable yet).[/li][/ul]

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The “group of young adults sitting around talking” type of sitcom. How did this genre get to be so popular? And how do we kill it?

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What’s that, friends and it’s always sunny in philadelphia? I love those

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Nuh uh.

Daniel

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Okay, then I take it back and say,

  1. Modern architecture
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Comics
Any form of singing in which the singer feels the need to put on a faux-American accent.

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  1. Opera
  2. Rap/hip-hop
  3. Artistically served food, a la everything decoratively stacked in the center of the plate and then garnished with sauce that spells out something in Chinese characters.
  4. Slob art, meaning paintings on velvet, talking trout, kung-fu hamsters. Exception: lamps whose bases are shaped to look like a human leg, ending in a foot wearing a high-heeled shoe.
  5. Posting the 50th post in a thread.
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Art forms that do nothing for me, as opposed to those I violently hate? Okay…

Classical Music–I don’t hate it but it doesn’t interest me. I mentally tune it out when I hear it.

Abstract Sculpture–Some abstract painting I love, some I hate. For the most part I don’t even notice abstract sculpture enough to have any reaction.

Most poetry, particularly older styles of poetry–my reaction tends to be “What’s the big deal?”

Televised sports–I couldn’t care less who is winning.

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  1. Jazz. With few exceptions it’s boring.

  2. Modern art scultpure. I can get into a nonsensical 2-D piece but put it in 3 dimensions and it better actually represent something dammit.

  3. Opera. Again, with few exceptions every moment is boring.

  4. Sports. If you are not actually playing it I have no idea why anyone would have any interest in it.

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And they allow you to live in UK ? :wink:

I don’t like sport, but even I enjoy watching a little Cricket, Football and Rugby. I’ve even watched Tennis at Wilbedon time now and again.

Now actively participating in sport involving a ball dose nothing for me. But feeling nothing when Willow hits leather (… hmmmm Buffy hmmm … lost my track of thought there …) is a worrying admission.

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Excellent thread idea, pseud!

My list:

  1. Abstract expressionism (painting – Jackson Pollock et al.)

  2. Step dancing (Irish dancing – fancy footwork with no movement at all from the hips up. I’m a tap dancer, so I understand and admire the difficulty of what they’re doing – but the way it looks totally freaks me out).

  3. Conceptual modern music (John Cage, etc.)

  4. [To riff on AHunter’s “wince humor,” which is a brilliant category]: Teen angst comedies (my adolescence was painful enough the first time around, I don’t want to relive all the crap of how evil kids that age are).

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Kachina dolls, the mountain dulcimer, atonal piano music, and cricket.

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  1. Modern (or postmodern or contemporary classical or whatevery they’re calling it now) Music – all that atonal, 12-toney stuff does nothing for me. And I have a sneaking suspicion that it will never do much for large masses of people, in spite of all the predictions you hear (“Just wait, in 50 years people will love this stuff! People hated Beethoven at first too!”)

  2. Sculpture – Modern or classical. I’ve seen Michelangelo’s David, the Venus de Milo and innumerable other examples in tons of museums, but it never does much for me.

  3. Modern art – Occassional pieces will be thought-provoking, but for the most part I think it’s drivel.

  4. Modern architecture – Not all of it by any means, but the most common examples I run into are simply depressing. You can call it “brutalist” or give whatever fancy name you want, but to me it just looks like a bunch of blocky, concrete slabs.

I guess I’m just anti-modern. Remember that line in “The Mikado” about people who hate “every century but this one and every country but their own”? :frowning:

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Some might find this anecdote about 12-tone music interesting.

I went to college with Arnold Schoenberg’s granddaughter. My girlfriend was a music major, and had gotten to know her rather well. AS’ granddaughter was also a music major and was apparently a skillful composer. She grew up listening to serialist and other atonal music. She had little visceral exposure to the “classics” save through theory and musicology. When her family went to concerts, they listened to Babbitt and not Brahms.

She could listen to the most abstract serialist piece and feel it. Put on the last movement of Beethoven 9 and she wouldn’t feel it at all. This was a smart cookie: she knew the classical and modern canon inside and out, had an excellent grasp of theory, and was also an accomplished musician and composer. She could tell when a serialist piece was real and when it was some 8-year old banging on the keyboard.

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Hip Hop
Rap
Jazz
Modern Stand Up Comedy

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That is interesting; I don’t doubt that someone who was raised on the music could really feel it. I believe there is some kind of real talent there, but I’ve always thought that it is a talent that can’t really be enjoyed until one has become thoroughly familiar with the huge canon of tonal music that precedes it, become exhausted with its conventions and limitations, and is really ready to hear something completely new. It’s not the kind of music an uneducated (or even half-educated) person can hear and appreciate. Even babys instinctively like Mozart; I don’t think they would have the same innate appreciation of Schoenberg.