XEROPITTURA

Post-Elitism And Music

As of now, I have around 550 songs on my iTunes account that I've gathered throughout 10 years, and something

I realized while looking through my favourite songs is that one of the best ways to communicate your narrative

is through music. I mean, I firmly believe that sounds alone have the ability to make you feel what's being

communicated. But the collection of having a picture to it, lyrics said at a certain speed and sometimes, a

video to make you see what's being said, IS a very important aspect of culture as it happens everyday.

Growing up, my favourite artists used to be featured either on MTV's Greatest Hits or on Pitchfork's front page.

But my music taste wasn't ever described by genres, feelings or artists alone. I mean, I was a dj and any kind

of songs that had 125 BPM were to be considered my favourite, wether it was house music, rock or even footwork.

I knew I liked to dance, I had a certain rythm I worked with and it was all I loved. Dancing was kinda cool.

But... It also happens that I like Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, I used to recommend AraabMUZIK to everyone

I knew, I sometimes cried to Ariana Grande, reflected about my own life to Bedwetter, danced to Dimitri Vegas,

talked about Young Cream, was a fan of Giriboy and loved how my Slayer tee made me look like when I wore it.

At one point, it was almost impossible to tell people what kinds of music I liked and why. I mean, if you look

at someone on the street who's wearing in a different way than other people, you'll most probably see that their

favourite music genre does in fact make them dress a certain way. Or visit the places they like to visit. But

for me, I feel like to this day, when people discover that I like footwork and trap (RL Grime, Baauer) they'll

sometimes not understand where I'm coming from. Both literal and figurative. And it wasn't easy for me either.

What I can say nowadays is, I've had friends from many backgrounds who were deep into music. I had people around

me describing their feelings with music I often times hated to listen to and sometimes I absorbed this kind of

behaviour. So, I started feeling like The Divine Feminine by Mac Miller would eventually be my marriage's only

soundtrack, or that Salem's King Night would be more listenable at night when I'm feeling self destructive.

After all, music DOES serve the purpose of giving your narrative some sort of sound or voice, it can be either

fast paced, calm or just average, and it does serve a great purpose on making you settle down to your goals when

you're listening to the right tune at the right place, the right time.

That's also one of the reasons why I feel like I had to make music at some times. I'm an artist myself and even

making online mixtapes is a good pass-time hobby, as it builds a tangible atmosphere when you're focused on it

the right way. But I have to warn you that even after all the positive things I've said about music, there's

still some dangers to it, and they're not small.

Music itself is vibration, and vibration is matter. Wich means that, once you tune yourself to what's being said

at a personal level (either because you relate to it or because you're vulnerable) you have a very serious danger

underneath a distraction. Often times, I like to use brazillian funk as an example to the teens around my mediums.

I almost never do, but when I ask them their favourite kinds of music and they say it's brazillian funk, I see

that they're teens looking for adventures or adrenaline. Wich to be fair, it's to be expected. But it's dangerous

to assimilate what could be a good adventure, to songs that explicitly talks about harming underage women.

It's absolute repulsive to translate brazillian funk songs. Once you do, you see why the people who listen

to it live in such ways and cannot succeed on anything they put their intentions on. It's horrible.

I stopped listening to all the songs I used to love because of it: these kind of vibrations always brings you

what it has to bring you. You cannot think about spending your money on dorito and wanting to eat pringle. You

Will eventually choose one or another. The same goes with music: You cannot fill your head with songs about any

sorts of bad things (heartbreaks, addictions, demonolatry, murder) and then expect to be strong by the end of

the day. It'll crush your soul and you'll realize it once you face any of the subjects I mentioned before.

And, I'm not pointing fingers, but go ask a Carti fan if they can pray Hail Marys or if a Carpenter fan would

consider marriage if the right man appeared in her life. See their shock.

If I can even recommend you anything; know you're on your right to explore and be free to understand any mediums

you want to, buy you HAVE to shield yourself from external influence, otherwise you'll be lost and it'll be

hard for yourself to recover from any toxicity you were left behind with. Be cautelous and go listen to uh, um,

you know like, songs. Maybe Skrillex or uh, ummmm, idk dude. Baba O'Riley by The Who or anything by Kiss.

also go listen to joao edson on youtube lol dudes a beast. and also try gqom. its kinda like footwork