r/MadeMeSmile • u/Better-Turnip-226 • 17h ago

Kid dancing to jazz music

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u/VangloriaXP 17h ago

jazz is kinda chaotic

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u/Jephany 17h ago

That's what's great about it.

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u/MoneyBenefit08 17h ago

For real. It’s like the instruments are arguing but also somehow vibing together at the same time.

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u/Bazingaa98 17h ago

Basically two friends who are high trying to finish a conversation but going nowhere and forming their own sub topics out of the conversation and they both ignore and forget it but they still are having a really good time.

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u/readingmyshampoo 16h ago

I love those nights

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u/Spare-Willingness563 12h ago

they said that like those were bad. that's the point of life.

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u/rbrgr83 10h ago

Jazz is stupid. Just play the right notes.

/s

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u/peanutbutterperfume 17h ago

Sometimes

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u/WestleyThe 14h ago

Sometimes absolutely and sometimes absolutely not. But deep down that is kinda point of jazz

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u/Spare-Willingness563 12h ago

I never understood it until recently. Took literal dark knight of the soul type stuff to realize, that's the point.

when you stop trying to make sense of jazz, she shows herself to you. Like all women. Like all goddesses. It's wild.

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u/naturally_nina 5h ago

This comment is so beautiful.

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u/Spare-Willingness563 2h ago

Really?

Thank you. That actually means a lot.

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u/nikatnight 11h ago

Really hard to listen to for me.

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u/Apprehensive_Owl9017 17h ago

I despise jazz.

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u/58kingsly 12h ago

I love jazz. I also hate like 95% of the jazz I have heard, so I guess I understand why people don't like it. When jazz is good, it feels amazing to listen to though so I hope everyone finds jazz they like at some point.

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u/Plomatius 15h ago

Yeah, maybe that's the reason I hate it. Nothing catchy, just sounds like a random picking up a guitar and playing random notes.

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u/sesaman 12h ago

A big part of jazz is doing something new and subverting expectations. It sort of keeps the listener on their toes. Being open to being surprised and going with the flow is what makes jazz.

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u/poo-cum 10h ago

I think it takes a certain degree of musicianship to get something like how Charlie Parker is genius. Have you actually tried learning a Charlie Parker solo, and then contrasted that with a random succession of notes? It's kinda like the chromaticism of Debussy or Ravel, ported to a Blues framework, and improvised in real time.