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 | | This is why so much of the best pop music is, structurally speaking, ordered in much the same way (verse, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, etc.) People who listen to pop music do so in a certain frame of mind that needs those common banks of the river to be there, sonically. |
 | | And this is, simultaneously, why pop music is by definition only considered historically avant garde (i.e., avant garde only in the time of the Beatles and their contemporaries). |
 | | Upstream from all that, if, as like the practice of art, a person treats blogging as the downstream product of an open inquiry into the nature of self; of enmeshment vs attachment vs detachment; of pure playthen the practice of blogging can be as spiritually transformative as anything else. |
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