About reaction videos on Youtube with Genesis and AC/DC.

My wife asks the question before I can cross the Youtube video where a classic composer so-called reacts to different songs. This means that he literally claims to react to how he feels about the song in connection with he hears it for the first time.

It is almost exclusively so -called progressive rock. I sit and hum in an intellectual way when he dissects yet another Genesis song. The man says things like « interesting change of key ».

But who do I really cheat? So -called reaction videos are the most primitive of entertainment available.

I want my, in my own sense, refined music taste confirmed. Since it is a classic composer who responds to the songs, he must keep track of what is really good and complicated music, such as Medelsvensson would never listen to.

When the classic composer is amazed at the complexity of the songs he claims to have never heard before, I sit like a smilfin and mockery. « Ha, I said it. The song is good, I have also noted it, » I think.

I try to keep myself from sinking in the more depressing conclusion of it all: that I need to get my music taste confirmed by an American guy over the internet. An old man who doesn’t even know I exist.

Thus I have become Yet another in the crowd to suffer from what is called parasociality. So the phenomenon that you think you have a relationship with someone you have only seen on TV or so -called digital media. Ironically, the phenomenon in Genesis classics turn it on again. In the song, the protagonist believes in having a relationship with a woman he sees on his TV screen.

In any case, I can pretend that my video checking is part of a deep interest in music theory. Worse luck has the unreasonably large group of viewers who look at the unreasonably large group of black men who react to white rock classics.

If there is something I learned from Youtube, it is that there seems to be an endless stream of young African American men who have never heard Highway to Hell and Sweet Home Alabama. « Good that you finally discovered real music, » the viewers write in the video clips’ comments field without understanding that they, like me, have been cheated.

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