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I practice my instrument everyday (guitar). And I'm versed on composition and theory. And I've played live off and on for many years.
But I look at all that as means to an end -- namely, making music.
I don't romanticize it or hold it in high regard just because it's my discipline. I think that's egocentric and self-aggrandizing.
Who cares if much of today's pop music product appears to require all this technical doctoring? Honestly. It's an entertainment factory not a museum tour. It has been since at least the '50s.
Seriously, compression is artifice. At a certain level, even microphonics are artifice.
I suppose you could argue that ballet (or clogging) is a language. Who laments the loss or diminishment of that language? Ballet dancers and clogs who think all their study and discipline entitles them to something. That's who and that's all.
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