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Für Elise is incredibly annoying when played robotically like a speedtest but if you play it with some feeling it's almost...

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argumate:

Für Elise is incredibly annoying when played robotically like a speedtest but if you play it with some feeling it’s almost embarrassingly sexual

grigori-hastur said: Do you have an example of such a rendition?

I suppose for all his faults you could start with Lang Lang

ok, to be honest I think this is less about the music and more about the… thing he is doing with his whole upper body here

The fact the tune’s got this far into the culture without people particularly caring who Elise was is a thing

also maybe Utena ruined me, maybe growing up with Nobuo Uematsu soundtracks ruined me but at this point it mostly registers as a prompt for Japanese composers to play with