The problem with Death by Triple Fiddle (Joshua Bell,
Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush, Mike Marshal) is that
it is bound to classical music instruments, and it
has no lore. The only lore you could put to it would
be from some era many years ago. It sounds like something
from the 1800s. But our world has changed.
We have things like video games, now.
World of Warcraft's Kul Tiras soundtrack is incredible
because, though it uses classical instruments, it has the make-believe
world of WoW to supply the ground for the music. It is
all instrumental music, but Boralus and Kul Tiras are
legendary locations. Tiragarde Sound is beautiful to
explore. There are professions you can work toward
in the game while residing in the area.
Classical music, by itself, is dated and archaic.
It was created in a world before we could record
human voices and thus provide lyrics to go along
with music. Also, it was created before we had video
games to provide the ground for the music to stand on.
Video games are a better ground for classical music
than movies. Movies don't let you enter a world, but
video games do. And the Warcraft games, created in Irvine, California,
became the supreme world for such music.
KPop is trascendent music. Its lyrical space is Korean-dominated.
But the titles of the songs are often in English. We get
small shooting stars of English lyrics in most songs.
And when we don't, we still live in a world where tourist
visas let us enter South Korea. We can take it on faith that
the singers are singing about good subject matter.
KPop music, and the music from the Warcraft intellectual
property, are better than Chopin's body of work. There is
no comparison. People who posture in the opposite
direction are gross.
