Rant About... MUSIC? A new one.

Ok, today, while I was working on Spanish hw, I was interrupted by my mother incquiring about my views on Chinese music. I flew into a rage (Oh Gosh, i sound like Edgar A. Poe... wtf)..

SO.
You all know I'm a very romantic-oriented person. I like Schubert, I like thrice. 's all you need to know.


Shall I describe the ways Chinese music bothers me?
Let us start with the traditional. Like Vienna has Beethoven, China has... um Laomongfunpo?
To sum it up, there are a grand total of FIVE DIFFERENT NOTES. We call these, respectively: 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. 4 and 7, two of the BEST NOTES on the scale (along with THE REST OF THE PIANO), were just not popular enough with emperor Fu.

These five notes... well you basically have a random number generator, operating at the same tempo for every piece, and it just spits out notes. THere doesn't seem to be any combination of the five that don't work, so you can't go wrong with Chinese music! Now about going right, we still have lots to work on.


Now, I do like works with "impromptu # 2" in the name, or maybe even a "fantasy"! ooh! BUT I DON'T, DON'T DON'T want to see "Nanjing farmer use oxen to feed lotus to deceased dowager-woman"! SERIOUSLY, I have like a few books of chinese pieces. If all the things I wrote about chinese music were requirements for an APUSH essay, these pieces would get 9s all the way through.

Chinese pop music is even worse (except for the stuff that's actually really good, which i wouldn't call 'pop').
Its like,
HEY!
Lets see how badly we can imitate speaking english in our songs! "iiiii loooove yuuuuuuuu soo muchhh my riice ballls hurrrtt",
NO.


Basically, not having the 4th note of a scale is like death. Really. And the 6.5 too. Find your favorite song. Be it "Get Low" or the dotA song, if you got rid of the 4 chords it be like "Get Medium" or dotARDDDD instead.