Haven't heard the 4minute; I think the arrangement rather than the group is the strongest part of "Wiggle Wiggle" (which doesn't answer the question; haven't listened enough to know what I think); the harmonies in "Ice Cream Cake" are what deliver it to me, and, while K-pop has brought home for me the importance of videos and concepts, I still don't pay them enough attention, hence didn't know Red Velvet even had a blond-cheerleader-clone aesthetic (which presumably isn't at odds with the harmonies) (but S. Korea seems to think of concepts as more mutable and open to being discarded than the U.S. does, which doesn't necessarily mean that in the U.S. performers don't mutate and discard their concepts just as much as the Koreans).
The communication issue actually fits easily into the alienation addiction in that I often go, "If only I rephrase it like this, or use this new analogy or that new invective, then they'll finally grasp the issue and comprehend my idea" (or, conversely, "if only I hadn't used the analogy or the invective, they would have understood"), and I can brood and rehearse and rephrase for days. That is, my not knowing when to cut my losses rather than push forward gets in the way of doing the latter. And even knowing to cut my losses doesn't stop my mind and feelings from pressing the hopeless case in my head. The addiction likes to reinforce itself with the constant "experience" of failure.
We do each individually have an obligation to communicate our ideas (if an idea can't be communicated, then it isn't an idea, though "can be communicated" isn't the same as "has been communicated" or "ever will be communicated"). But, fundamentally, knowledge is a collective enterprise, and the failure is collective when a community fails to help its members understand each other's ideas and fails at helping them communicate and develop their own. No individual can overcome all her misreadings and notice or surmount all the problems in her own thinking. Unfortunately, rockwrite/musicwrite has NEVER had a community that was substantially able to help its members understand, or was willing to recognize that as a community it had a problem.
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The communication issue actually fits easily into the alienation addiction in that I often go, "If only I rephrase it like this, or use this new analogy or that new invective, then they'll finally grasp the issue and comprehend my idea" (or, conversely, "if only I hadn't used the analogy or the invective, they would have understood"), and I can brood and rehearse and rephrase for days. That is, my not knowing when to cut my losses rather than push forward gets in the way of doing the latter. And even knowing to cut my losses doesn't stop my mind and feelings from pressing the hopeless case in my head. The addiction likes to reinforce itself with the constant "experience" of failure.
We do each individually have an obligation to communicate our ideas (if an idea can't be communicated, then it isn't an idea, though "can be communicated" isn't the same as "has been communicated" or "ever will be communicated"). But, fundamentally, knowledge is a collective enterprise, and the failure is collective when a community fails to help its members understand each other's ideas and fails at helping them communicate and develop their own. No individual can overcome all her misreadings and notice or surmount all the problems in her own thinking. Unfortunately, rockwrite/musicwrite has NEVER had a community that was substantially able to help its members understand, or was willing to recognize that as a community it had a problem.