Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@stuartk 

Can you name a few poet laureats or any famous poets who you don't think are difficult to understand? I need to know what you're talking about. Thanks.

And, do you think the poems I've posted are difficult to understand? Do you think Snyder is difficult to understand, because that's who I learned from.

@toddalin 

Sorry, which singer did you think was difficult to understand? I don't know which post you're referring to. Thanks.

@audio-b-dog

Laura Nyro sounds too breathy for me and this can make her difficult to understand on some cuts.

Anything in Italian is foreign to me.

@toddalin 

Okay, got you. I don't care if I understand all the words. I'm more into feeling the voice as part of the music. And I guess I'm into breathy female vocalists, if I think about it. Just a matter of taste.

Re “getting it”:

No one is  suggesting that one has to like music that one is trying to “get”. This music is an artist’s expression.  It belongs to the artist.  The listener is a “guest”.  Liking it can be considered secondary. Again, humility.  However, if a listener wants to truly understand the full range and scope of a creative artist’s musical vision and evolution, he would do well to at least take it in and perhaps simply tolerate it with a listening or two. Personally, I find great value in that.  The trick is to not waste time with the imposters.

Not an imposter.  Check out the lineup.  Could so many greats be full of s#!t?  Unlikely:

https://youtu.be/iPDzlSda8P8?si=As5mYdNgfXAcnSM9