So who here prefers emotional music/art/literature?

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-Was prompted to ask having just heard some Mahler I haven't listened 2 in a while- I've always focussed on what a piece of music etc. expresses, though I guess that's just part of my character.

Where I'm coming from is a feeling I have that appreciating that in which you're 'all at sea' (like dealing with complex passions to us aspies) feels somehow better/more fulfilling (to me) than just falling into your grooves and ignoring the rest. Does any1 feel me here?

I have a preference for art that is emotionally expressive and has something in it that I feel I can relate to.

Do you mean specifically emo subculture stuff?

There are certain 1980's bands I "feel" are "emotional" but not emo,
but the only one I can remember now is The Cure.
edit pending with list if I remember more AND anyone cares.

Not 'emo', no I go for music that expresses any/all feelings, not just self-pity Although I reckon some of Mahler's the closest that classical music comes 2 emo, I'm a bit too old (29) to have been exposed to and understand that scene; I'd call The Cure proto-emo u c

I listened to Mahler a lot in my student days in the late 80s and played the 6th Symphony in my university orchestra. Someone once told me that Mahler's music was a series of village scenes, upon which a vampire descends! He was brought up close to an army barracks but also close to nature and he certainly juxtaposed military music with folksong and pastoral evocations.

The most memorable Mahler quotation for me is:

“I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.”

The Cure are not linked in anyway to the emo scene. The Cure were a British post-punk/early goth-rock later on new wave/alternative pop band. Emo evolved from American hardcore punk.

I was talking about the kind of vibe their music gives off; surprised to see there's a 'punk' link there tho!

You mean stuff done for artistic merit rather than profit?

I prefer art that is conducive to serenity.

It's bad enough that news, traffic, and work get my nerves all jangled up without having to deal with rap, hip-hop, metal, screamo, and other types of cacaphony.

For visual art, I prefer both impressionist and realist landscapes of rural and wilderness scenes, especially when done in watercolor.

Impressionist art irritates me. Can't squint hard enough to see it clearly.

Plus, it's boring.

Usually profound, fiery, intense music grabs my attention more than shallow stuff. I guess there are times when that can become a bit overloading then I may have to chill out to something that's basically about nothing significant at all lol. But usually, it's the deep stuff that does it for me.

Same can be said with art and literature, although I don't read much.

I never get why some people think only certain music/art is emotional. It seems like a self-centered attitude, pegging everything else as non-emotional.

Art can't help but be emotional. I was talking about art that's melodramatic/hysterical in intent or effect, I guess