cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/7371425
I don't think you'll get the push back you are expecting.
This is not controversial.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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Not even from the group of Weird Al fans who are all likely to agree with this? Aww man, I was sure I'd be at the top of All/Controversial by the end of the day!
tbf even on the original post everyone is in agreement, I just took the excuse to post here. It's been too quiet
Just to make you happy : youre wrong! Lets fight on that hill youre so keen off!
( but i agree with the post lawl )
And the two friends sat together on that hill to watch a peaceful sunset. The war drums were quiet and a symphony of accordions filled the night air.
I’m from all and you supported your thesis sufficiently and I can’t really argue against it. Weird Al is an extremely proficient musician and performer.
Mozart is brilliant of course, but his mythos is also a product of his time. The way music is written, taught, and performed has changed wildly since then so of course it’s hard to see people of comparable skill to him
I always found it interesting how our environment only provides genius-level experts with our current skills/technology/social trends/etc. For instance, the greatest racecar driver in existence could've been some young person born in the 1200s, but because cars didn't exist back then, they never got the ability to show of their raw natural talent and instead lived a boring life as a baker or blacksmith.
Amadeus Mozart was amazing for his time, but his time put more value on performance arts, requiring children to learn about classical/traditional music as part of their schooling from a young age. His father recognized his raw talent at a very young age and peddled his skills across the European elite to make money. Nowadays, there are so many complex fields in the world, we may have thousands of Mozart-level composers, but they've never even considered making music, and thus live out their lives in a boring office cubicle setting.
Who knows, I might've been a world-famous trapeze artist in the circus, but I never ran away from home, so now I live a boring life doing IT work. /Shrug
I believe this is where hobbies are an very important role in our lives. My current job has nothing to do with my first long term job i did. In those 9 years i did that job i learned, through my hobbies, that i was good at understanding technology and how they worked/ticked. "fingerspitzengefühl" as the germans would call it.
This has resulted in me doing evening classes and switching jobs in a completely different field with a completely different description.
Would i have known without my hobbies? Absolutely not.