Blog Post #7

1. There’s something powerful in re-cooperating what power rejects because it feels like something sacred. There is the uncertainty in finding value & meaning; “finding treasure in another man’s trash.” Meaning that may have never been found.
2. Specific preferences and social agendas vs. what other, less powerful people find meaning is how music indicates differences between the powerful and the marginalized.
3. Surprised is coming to find something you might have never given the chance to feel actually turning out to be something you may come to enjoy. Discovering is more feeding an existing preference or “sounds like something [you’ve] heard before.”
4. Forced Exposure allows you to find novel cross-breeds of stimuli that one may come to appreciate. Spotify is more algorithmic in supplying a certain pattern of music a user tends to already come to like on a concurring basis. We can not get out of our sensational comfort zones if it’s never left or explored.