on the ball –
You’ve conveniently ignored the ‘Mecholos’ and have also for some unknown reason assumed the tune was African style.
Mecholos means dancing. Bongos and dancing. I didn’t ignore anything. My assumption is simply a reflection of the observation that the only instrument they cared for was a drum.
I’m not talking about the lyrics. I am talking about the tune. And I don’t believe you if you say rap and heavy metal TUNES inspire you. I simply do not believe it. Your statement that my argument is circular is meaningless because if you read my post you will see that I wasn’t trying to prove anything. I simply asserted my belief on this issue.
Without lyrics, tunes reflect whatever mood I am in. It’s like the clickety-clack of a train, if you’re in a good mood it feels rhythmic and if you’re in a bad mood it’s annoying. Similarly, if I hear a song with a wild beat with no words, it all depends on what mood I’m in. It doesn’t make me feel less spiritually connected at all. But you can believe what you want. My personal conjecture is that people who feel like being ‘bad’ when they hear wild music do so because they associate the two in their minds. If one would have lived in eighteenth-century Poland where the counts played klezmer music at their crude parties, one would associate klezmer with crudeness. But there is nothing intrinsically un-spiritual about any form of music. But that’s just my conjecture.