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Originally Posted by louder
"I listen to as much Top 40 as I listen to noise tapes. Pop music—especially really popular pop music—is as visceral as noise. When a pop song comes on, you feel something. I was just in the car and that Eminem/Rihanna song ["Monster"] came on—[sings] "I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed!" I was like, "Whoa! Hold the car! Hold it!" My world was spinning. I couldn't see straight. It's the same thing when I'm seeing [noise artist] the Rita play in a basement in Vancouver. You're like, "What is going on? Where am I?" You go blind for a second. It's totally sacrilegious to put the Rita and Rihanna in the same sentence, but I don't care because they give me the same feeling in a different way."
- Zola Jesus
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that quote could basically be applied to any form of music, whether it be pop, rock, soul, jazz or noise, that grabs you. it isn't necessarily pop music's effect on everyone, it's pop music's effect on a listener who enjoys pop music. pop and noise aren't the only two genres of music that can disorient the listener.