Song fades out

>song fades out
Why do musicians do this?

Imagine if you were eating a delicious meal, and instead of finishing it, it just slowly faded away into nothing as you were still eating. Wouldn't you feel unsatisfied?

What does that even mean

How much clearer could I make it?

Imagine you're reading a book. It's a really good book. But the last chapter doesn't have a conclusion. The text on the pages just gets lighter and lighter until you can't read it anymore. That's what a fade out does in music.

Imagine if you were eating a delicious meal, and instead of finishing it, it just slowly faded away into nothing as you were still eating. Wouldn't you feel unsatisfied?

I guess that would depend on what the book was like.

I mean if you want to hear more of the same song you can always just play it again.

letting the last bit of your ice cream cone melt away is the patrician style

I'm not asking to hear more. I'm asking for an ending. Fading out is lazy. It sounds like shit.

>eating food
>as you eat there is less food until there is none

fucking absurd

I'm sorry but when I think of fading out, I can easily think of songs that faded at the end and sounded good. Can you give me an example of an unfinished song that should have a proper ending but instead fades into nothing?

Why the fuck would I not want a conclusion with my really good book?

Imagine being so fucking stupid you make a food analogy.

that's the point idiot

Idiot.

You are such an idiot.

Yes. And why would you not want a conclusion with your really good song?

But fading out IS an ending. What, do all the musicians have to stop playing at the same time on a V-I perfect cadence for you to consider the song "over" or something? Why is that a more valid ending than fading out? Have you ever considered that maybe the artist felt that the song wouldn't benefit from having a very conclusive ending and chose not to write one? Is that really "lazy" in your eyes? How about when a painter only chooses to paint the subject of their painting rather than literally everything around them until they have filled up the entire canvas? Is that "lazy" too? What the fuck is wrong with you?

that's an even worse comparison than OP's. kill yourself

It's not a comparison buddy, it's a follow on question about the way certain artworks need to be "completed". If I had said "that's just like when a painter chooses only to paint their subject" it would be a comparison. Learn to read.

That's what I'm saying.

>tfw cant interrupt a song abruptly because everyone will just say its a beatles ripoff

Hating fade outs is a meme

>fucking food analogy
Go back to Sup Forums

do you not understand what a comparison is? if you didn't intend a comparison, learn to write better.

Books are generally not based in repetition though. If you have to use a completely different and irrelevant medium to prove your point, it's probably not a very good point.

I can see how you might have thought it was a comparison, if you were a fucking brainlet. The fact that I quite clearly qualify each statement with a question about whether these are "lazy" ways to complete artworks obviously communicates that I'm not comparing them directly at all, simply asking if the OP would consider both "lazy" ways of completing artworks.

Please stop posting you dipshit brainlet, you're not smart.

if you weren't drawing parallels between the two, your question about paintings wouldn't even be relevant to the conversation

also, nice resorting

whoops, got cut off.
nice resorting to insults

Imagine if music was a marathon or a race, when you're at the end you dont make a deadstop thats bad, you start to lower your tempo(the fade) until you have cooled down(let the music settle in your brain)

>Imagine if you were eating a delicious meal, and instead of finishing it, it just slowly faded away into nothing as you were still eating. Wouldn't you feel unsatisfied?

but the meal's about to be finished anyway plus if it fades away into nothing, this means I don't need to clean up after ;)

How is it irrelevant at all? The OP was talking about artworks he considers incomplete, I asked a question about whether or not he would consider another kind of artwork incomplete. Do you genuinely have some kind of disability? This shit isn't hard to grasp in the slightest. Dumbass.

*reads a steve albini essay once*

Notice how every movie fades out

>Notice how every movie fades out
What?

it's a technique for studio recordings
a lot of artists record a 10-20 min jam of a song
during the jams the band members kinda just end all randomly
so they just take either the section they want for the end product, or just use clips from all over the recording

I'm not saying it is irrelevant. It is only relevant because there are similarities between the two. You are noting those similarities to make your point. This is not difficult to understand.

Most intelligent post on this thread. Thanks for pointing this out for all the autists.

Why does it matter? A song can have a conclusion and a fade out, or not have a conclusion and have a fade out. What difference does it make if the music abruptly stops at the same time it could fade out instead? Absolutely none.

>similarities between two things indicate there must be a comparison being made

Lmfao.

>I mean if you want to hear more of the same song you can always just play it again.
It has nothing to do with this. fade out, is like a movie having no conclusion, it still won't have a conclusion if you rewind the movie.

>you start to lower your tempo
Marathons are for undesirables. I prefer a sprint where you get faster towards the end and then fall to the ground elated.

thats a conclusion in itself my dude

The original posts entire point was based on drawing similarities between the two. Also known as a comparison. If you can't see that, I don't know what to say.

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Shut up autist, I like fade outs, they're an interesting way to handle some songs.

You don't know what to say in most situations I would think, which is why you should stop posting kiddo :^)

Seems you don't either, considering you're just shit flinging and not arguing.

You literally just told me what the point of the post I made was
there's no point arguing with autism like that lmfao

>autism
you literally don't know what a comparison is. besides, never did i tell you what the point of your own post is. try actually reading my posts next time

alright captain autism

ouch

must be a boring insult to hear so many times in your life right lmfao

stop it, you're hurting my feelings