fuck all that.....

how can any music be unemotional? take the oldest form of music known to man, the Gregorian Chant.....if the singers sang an Augmented Fifth, they cringed......itz the absolute most horrific chord known to man....i believe itz a Minor Fifth.....or sumtin? I forget....but the Augmented Fifth is also known as the "devil's chord".......now, is that not characteristic of some emotion....

also, you take the philosophy of aestheticism......as Nietzsche so clearly argues in the his essay "The Birth of Tragedy," all manner of art (though, he was specifically speaking about ancient Greek Tragedies in this context) has with it two principles.....the Appolian principle and the Dionysian prinicple...

take for example a painting:
--the appolian principle is the basic form of said painting....colors, brush strokes, etc.
--the dionysian principle is the painting itself....itz a forest, with snow, a lil' cabin by a lake....a feeling of coldness and isolation

all form of art can apply these two principles.....you can look at any style of music "including these devil beats" and advocate no emotional connection.....(the song is comprised of a scale, time signatures, a structure of verse, pre-chorus, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, post chorus, etc.)......or, you can advocate an emotional connection to it.....(the song is about a woman who cheats on her man and the man kills himself, oh how sad!)