The accordion, aka world's first portable piano!

     German folk music. French street musicians. Russian and finish folk. It is pointless fighting over which country's music scene can claim the accordion. Because of what needs to be remembered and understood.

     And what needs to be understood is that the accordion was the world's first portable piano.

     If you're not a musician, i could explain it like this: most music instruments cannot play all that many things, most of them are very limited with what you can squeeze out of them. Piano, on the other hand, despite being somewhat harder to play on (all those keys look the same, dammit!), you can play almost anything on. There is a reason so many world famous classical pieces are for the piano. Piano can have up to 10 notes ringing at any given moment, giving you more options of what to play. NOW, of course more does not mean better, and one could play great things on a simpler instruments despite the limitations............ but on the piano it is easy (after years of practice) to play any composition, except maybe orchestral (and even that could be fudged).

     So, what does this mean?

     It means with the accordion, you have a portable piano that does not need power. Take it with you when you go to the country, when you go mushroom picking. Take it with you on the beach. Grab it when you move to a new town, a new country. And you could play whatever you want, wherever you want!

     See now why accordions were an instant hit? See now why the instrument spread all over Europe (after someone somewhere PROBABLY around Germany invented it) and later the world.

     Accordion has been a part of european folk music several hundred years now, with no country really "owning" it. Don't fight over the portable piano, european nations, do not fight over "who the accordion belongs to"; share this common musical tradition instead!

Don't call it pop!

     I don't like when certain music gets labeled "pop". I just don't like it. Why? Because in my little world "pop" carries negative implications. I see pop as the opposite of art. Arght is when you follow your sixth sense and ur <3, and create something good, without careful calculations of how to please as many people as possible. When CC (careful calculations) get involved, the art becomes craft. And I have nothing against craft. However, when I want art, I won't take your craft alone as a substitute.

     What makes it worse is the current state of pop music. And by that I mean mainstream pop. Apparently there is such thing as "indie pop", where musicians write and arrange their own stuff. I am not talking of those fine gentlemen and gentleladies. No, I mean the SHIT you get on your car radio and the abortion that MTV has become after ~2005.

     When you spend years listening to ALL kinds of music, all genres (yes, even that one), songs and instrumentals, and even knowing how music is made, being able to compose, makes you see cheap emotional manipulation for what it is. The same few chord progressions to evoke the same quick emotional responses. The same damn drum samples. Not very imaginary arrangements (you do know what arrangement is, right?...) THE SAME DAMN WORDS ABOUT """ROMANCE""" (it's really fucking) OR YOUR DAMN BROKEN HEART THAT IS NOT WORTH ANYTHING SINCE YOU ARE CREATIVELY BANKRUPT AND LITERALLY DISPOSABLE.

     In other words........... please don't call this really cool band I like "pop", they deserve better.

Green Eyes

     I do not get it. So, allegedly the differing eye colours are due to the different melanin content. You know melanin, right? It's that brown stuff that, in large quantities, makes brown so dark you call it black. Black eyes are like that, so much melanin they have no choice but the be black.

     So, in that case, eyes with less and less melanin should have brown, light brown, beige, and pale beige colours...... right? Well, somehow "less brown stuff" means green and blue. CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS? Cause my low IQ brain cannot get it. Apparently it has to do with light refractions or something like that...?

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