All music either embeds or disrupts habituated behaviour patterns

Evidence

The Atlanta trio Migos became synonymous with trap’s ascent, popularizing the triplet flow, a rapid-fire delivery that quickly made older “boom bap” styles of hip-hop sound outdated. In rap, the paradigm most certainly shifted. Trap was hardly obsessed with compositional experimentation (the labels culled backtracks from an endless number of anonymous grunts who pumped out commodity beats), but its immediacy made it feel more authentic than rival sounds. Sharing a spirit with punk rock, songs were often created in twenty minutes. “If they really take their time on it,” Migos’s DJ Durel said, “they’ll take forty or forty-five minutes” on a track. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 392 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Chronic travel sickness can complement rather than oppose homesickness in modern music — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 495; Music communicates emotion and shared cultural symbolism rather than propositional content; Music functions as a fundamental class marker indexing Bourdieu’s social distinction — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 654 (+4 more)

Related

• Trap music traded compositional sophistication for immediacy and perceived authenticity (similarity 0.81)
• Trap’s triplet flow made prior hip-hop styles sound outdated (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Trap music traded compositional sophistication for immediacy and perceived authenticity #exemplifies (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 392
• Twelve-tone technique is domination of nature within music #exemplifies (0.74)
• Music communicates emotion and shared cultural symbolism rather than propositional content #expands (0.72)
• Music functions as a fundamental class marker indexing Bourdieu’s social distinction #exemplifies (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 654
• The same expressive act carries different weight depending on setting noise and activity #exemplifies (0.72)
• The stated rationales for musical arrangement conceal economic and aesthetic falsity #complicates (0.70)