is it?

Yes

no

Maybe

music is my life

What else?

absolutely not

music is an outlet for an artist to pour their souls. i do not find any entertainment value in an album like "A Crow Looked at Me", but it's still a very amazing body of work

not to me

no its my life

mfs change ,live and die for that s*** its not just entertainment

Music is y'all lives?

Indeed

Perhaps...

potentially

A chair is still a chair… even When there’s no one sitting there

"just" no

Rarely is anything just one thing

Music is vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion

big brain thread

Yes

I think we use the word entertainment in regards to music improperly for sure. The word entertainment as we understand it to apply to other artistic commodified mediums is used interchangeably with how it applies to music as a whole when that shouldn’t be the case. There are perhaps two leading purposes to listen to music for: entertainment and euphoria. When we draw a line in the sand and ask “is music just entertainment or not entertainment” we forgo the fact that music is unique in its place amongst art as being experienced within these two leading purposes.

ENTERTAINMENT

Under this category, music is commonly experienced through means such as: parties, festivals, or just blaring it through the car speakers for everyone in it to enjoy. The purpose is to be entertained.

EUPHORIA

Here, music is experienced for the purpose of artificially boosting dopamine. Songs as a format - given their short and patterned structure - especially lend themselves to quick and intense hormonal stimulation, ie masturbation and eating fast food. Artistically, the more accessible a song is, the quicker and more intense the hormonal stimulation, and the bigger the experience of euphoria is. Quite literally a high

Which is better?

The short answer is neither is better. The long answer is: it’s better to see how each one is perceived and why. The more euphoric listening to music lends itself to a perceived lower brow form of engagement, as intellectual or artistic appreciation isn’t at the forefront. Listening to music for engagement with the qualities of its composition, or the merits of what a song is conveying through its lyrics falls under the entertainment category oddly enough