Today in our English class, we listened to the song "Round and Round" by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. We were asked to pick out two musical facts from this song. My first was that there were drums used in this song. At the end of the song, the singers were singing in a cappella. After we listed our two facts, we were then asked to come up with an opinion on this song. Personally, I did not enjoy the song very much because it did not serve much of a purpose, and I could not understand what the lyrics were throughout the entire song.
Question for blog: How do your musical facts influence your opinion? What is the correlation between what you picked out and your opinion? Do you have bias? If so, explain.
Answer: Looking at the two facts that I gathered from this song, only one of them had an impact on my opinion of the song. Although there were drums in the song, they were not the reason why I didn't particularly enjoy this song; they don't cause or change my already-standing opinion of "Round and Round." However, the a cappella fact does influence my opinion of this song. Normally, I like a cappella singing, but because I couldn't understand what the lyrics were when the a cappella was being sung, I did not enjoy it. This lowered my taste for this song even further, considering that when you can hear the lyrics in a cappella, it usually sounds very beautiful.
I do have a bias against this song, because for one thing, this isn't my preferred genre of music. I'm not used to this style, which makes me not want to listen to it too much. Also, I did not dislike the singers' voices, but I did not take much pleasure in listening to them, which has the same effect as the previous bias listed.
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