HUMOR ME. IMAGINE YOU'RE MAKING FIRST CONTACT WITH A SOMEWHAT PRIMITIVE-SEEMING EXTRATERRESTRIAL RACE WITH NO METHOD OF VERBAL OR PHYSICAL COMMUNICATION ACTUALLY WORKING TO INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN YOU AND THEM. A COMPANION OF YOURS SUGGESTS THAT, AFTER OBSERVING THEIR RITUALS, MUSIC MAY BE A WAY TO BRIDGE THE COMMUNICATION GAP AND ALLOW THEM TO NOT ONLY UNDERSTAND YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL, BUT ALSO YOU AS ONE SMALL PART OF A LARGER SPECIES. TO ACT AS AN AMBASSADOR OF SORTS, THROUGH SONG. WHAT SONG WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO SHARE WITH THE ALIEN SPECIES TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND YOU, UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU CAME FROM, AND UNDERSTAND YOUR PEOPLE?
Yeah! That's Kinda The Vibes, Ykwim :} I Might Usually Be Into Like... Indie Neo-glamrock And Shit, But You Gotta Respect The Talent Where It Is Yfm?
i respect the yakkity sax you know i do but i dont think it covers the full spectrum of human experience
If They / Are / Primitive They Would Never Appreciate Troll Mitski's Music In The Same Way. Therefore, They Do Not Deserve To Hear It.
okay. literally no song can do that. but it will show that humans are fun-loving and can go really hard on the sax.
THAT'S HILARIOUS. BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO BE THE ONE TO INTRODUCE THEM TO THE CONCEPT OF HIGH ART?
Is The Reward Greater Than The Risk If I Do? Who's To Say. On One Prong I Would Obtain Bragging Right, On The Other They Might Bastardize Whatever I Show Them.
MAYBE BASTARDIZE, MAYBE ITERATE. THEY ARE SEEMINGLY PRIMITIVE, YES, BUT THEY ARE STILL PEOPLE WITH THE CAPACITY TO THINK AND FEEL. IN THE ORIGINAL HYPOTHETICAL, I MENTIONED THAT A COMPANION OBSERVED THEIR RITUALS AND SAW THAT MUSIC MIGHT BE A PLACE WHERE YOU AND THEM COULD INTERSECT AND FIND COMMON GROUND, SO IT STANDS TO REASON, THEY ARE CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING AND RELATING, AND POSSIBLY EVEN ITERATING ON THE MUSIC YOU SHOW THEM, PERHAPS IN A WAY THAT MIGHT BE EMOTIONALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY BEYOND WHAT *YOU* UNDERSTAND, DUE TO BEING BOGGED DOWN BY HIGHER-SOCIETY CONCEPTS FROM THEM. THEY COULD HAVE ACCESS TO SOMETHING MORE RAW, MORE BEAUTIFUL, AND YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW, UNLESS YOU SHOWED THEM SOMETHING YOU CONSIDER RAW AND BEAUTIFUL. LIKE MITSKI. YOU COULD POTENTIALLY GET MORE THAN JUST BRAGGING RIGHTS. YOU COULD POTENTIALLY UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOUT THIS UNIVERSE THAT NO ONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS.
Yes, Yes. Alright. All Humor Aside I Am Aware That We Could Discover Between Us Something Common, Something True And Beautiful That Speaks Beyond The Barrier Of Our Likely Differing Languages And Cultures, And That The Effort To Connect Is Likely To Be Worth Something Intangible That Would Be Impossible To Experience Otherwise. I Would Send Them Abbey. Even If It Is Impossible For Them To Decipher What She Is Saying, I Feel Her Vocals Would Help Them Understand- It Is Haunting And Desperate In A Way That I Think Properly Represents How Most Trolls Feel On Alternia. Our Never Ending Search For A Purpose To Fit Somewhere In The Mold Of The Empire, Or With Someone Else. If Their Planet Does Not Happen To Be All Moonshine And Acid Rainbows Then Something Within Them Will Connect, Surely.