• The words of Obama, the rap of Jay-Z, the scripts of the Tinseltown craftspeople are all designed to appeal to the emotions. That’s what they do best. If there is a Nietzschean dialectic between Apollo (the ordered) and Dionysus (emotion), art in the modern age generally appeals to the Dionysian. Order is cast aside for passion. Visit a hip-hop concert, and witness the Dionysian ecstasy of the crowd. Apollonian reason is nowhere to be found.

  from: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/jay-z-my-presence-is-charity/

• I wonder though, isn't art in general catered more to the emotions? Even Greek ideals of balance and symmetry seemed in their own ways to appeal to the emotions, since it displayed the beauty that resulted when order was applied to a chaotic world. I feel as though all art is emotional in some way or another, it just depends on how overtly.

  mister care-too-muchon August 14, 2013   Link

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    Your beautiful and well-reasoned response has ALMOST convinced me that I am not a fool to offer my best here on SongMeanings.org...

    NomadMonadon August 24, 2013  

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