Challenging music

[Jonathan Roberts]

What the fuck does "challenging music" even means?
A lot of reviewers often use this term, like "this record challenges the listener", "you need to enjoy being challenged", etc.
What the literal fuck? How does music challenge people?
Is humanity finally going insane in its last moments of existence?

[Eli Cox]

Ok, I'll bite. Try to listen to a Kanye West album. That shit is challenging.

[Brandon Hill]

Im sorry, I cant stand nigger music

[Lincoln Brooks]

I've listened to a few Kanye West tracks because people gush about him so much. It's just trendy pop music with rap, nothing "challenging" about it.
Then again, I'm not even sure what "challenge" means. Nobody can "win" or "lose" when listening to music, it's not a game.

[Kevin Peterson]

>implying all music isn't indirectly nigger music

[Jose Gonzalez]

Well then, therein is the challenge.

[Andrew Myers]

Challenging is just a buzzword for being even slightly experimental by people who don't listen to experimental music

[Logan Rogers]

Retarded Jew-speak.

[Christian Nguyen]

Some notes go in places where notes shouldn't belong. Those notes that don't belong birth other notes that should belong either. Then a family of notes that don't belong spawn, until it's a colony, a swarm, a collective. Soon, the notes that belong start to die off, starting with the elder. The wise, sage-like bloomer ends his sentiments with a fade and a twinkle. The second one knows his fate as well, and he perishes away. The third, fourth and fifth see their future carried off by a floating heart. Soon, the notes grab on to the hearts, too. Then, the notes that fit the puzzle evaporate under the snails hiding under the cracks of your ears. It all ends into beginnings. The notes that intruded usurp the elders' place, and balance is restored... until a note wanders into the unknown.

[Levi Torres]

This. It's just a way to give music with shit messages a free pass.
>You don't like this song that tells the youth the they should have a lot of promiscuous sex and do a lot of drugs? You need to accept it! This song is challenging you to open your mind!