Music Is Weird

 Or “Is Music Weird?”

This is an AI analysis of transcripts of riffs from March of 2021 when I was reading the book The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, and I was thinking how music is actually weird in Western culture, neatly compartmentalized into our daily lives, now mostly as recordings, and also as recordings generated by AI, so there's an interesting irony there. While it's mostly accurate, there are a few errors with regard to Prince: he was actually doing music all the time and was successful in that he was able to completely “inhabit” music. In Western culture, music is really more of a “costume” that we can wear on certain occasions. But that's also interesting because it's a form of ritual, as it is in African cultures.

Incidentally, this image is of the Selkʼnam people of Tierra del Fuego. I don't think music was a part of their culture.