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... the definition of "nice music" depends as much as from the music itself as it depends from us and our circumstances. A paradoxical example is the song I Love You Barney, in which Barney is a cartoon bear, and the music a sing-along you can even try to listen without physical reactions. Yet in its  one minute duration, the song fills in the space with so many melodical repetitions, both clear and covert, that after a while you feel the urge to relieve yourself, by any means."

Published in Italian on the April 2023 issuew of BlowUp magazine