I used to have a mindset that furry music was inherently different from furry art or furry fiction, in that furry art is art of furries, furry fiction is stories starring furries, but the lyrical content in furry music isn’t exclusively about furries or being a furry or anything like that. But while I was trying to explain seeing a WHSPRS concert at Furality to one of my housemates, who is not a furry, I ended up with a different way of framing it:
Furry Art is the sort of artwork one would draw in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals. It just so happens that said animals also make vibrant and expressive subjects (and also tend to tip very well).
Furry Fiction is the sort of stories one would write in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals. Much in the same way that humans tend to write about the goings-on of other humans, animals write about other animals.
Furry Music, then, is the sort of music one would compose in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals. People sing about shitty break-ups, existential crises, or just take that one sample from Jacob's Ladder and set it to a beat. How many human-written songs do you hear about how fun and exiting it is to be a human?
