Sunday, May 28, 2017

Myrkur

This weekend's musical discovery, courtesy of my elder daughter. The musician is Amalie Bruun; the piece is a Danish folk song titled Två Konungabarn, Two Princes (Princesses? I'm not very good at Danish gender); the instrument is a Nyckelharpa. Myrkur (which is old Norse for darkness, like "murk") is a project of Bruun's, a sort of one woman black metal band. You can hear the metal pieces at the Myrkur web site. It's interesting, but someone needs to take this woman aside and tell her that her voice is wasted on that stuff.
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G. Verloren said...

"It's interesting, but someone needs to take this woman aside and tell her that her voice is wasted on that stuff."

Have you considered that perhaps "that stuff" is what she enjoys doing, more so than anything else? That perhaps her goals and motivations for singing are not what you think they are, and that maybe she feels her voice would be "wasted" on anything else?

Try not to assume you know what is best for someone else, or what anyone else "should" be doing with their life and their talents. Even if you mean well, it's awfully presumptuous. "An it harm none, do what ye will", I say.

Heck, it doesn't even take much to fix both the thought and the spoken/written comment. Rather than phrasing it as, "This person should not do this thing they do, and should do this other thing instead", why not reframe it slightly? How about, "What this person does is interesting; I would like/be interested to see them do this other thing as well."

It's such a simple difference, but it's a much less judgemental and narrow-minded way to think and to communicate.

May 30, 2017 at 3:13 AM
John said...

Well, sure, the music she makes is her business. I just selfishly want more songs like the one I posted.

May 30, 2017 at 8:08 AM

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