What's the Definition, the Definition?

Okay, so let's go ahead and define our terms...
First of all, though I will not entirely restrict discussion to things bland (I have been known to ride a tangent to ridiculous extremes), that will be the default.

To really determine the taste and texture of things bland, I here refer to the OED:
bland as a noun has its roots in the Old English word blande meaning 'in mixture, in union' with an adverbial and prepositional form ("together," and "among," respectively). It would then make sense that the word also would be used to designate "a beverage of hot whey mixed with water" or a combination of buttermilk and water mostly consumed in Orkney and Shetland. Nice.

In its adjectival form, bland denotes things "soft, mild, pleasing to the senses; gentle, genial, balmy, soothing" and people "smooth and suave in manner; mildly soothing or coaxing: gentle." I'm guessing, like the mixture and beverage, this is a rather obsolete meaning. Though I like the idea of a fellow having "bland temper and winning manner" not to mention a "bland and benevolent face." It seems it also is used to describe mild and "unirritating" medicines and "not stimulating" food (Shetland, take note).

There is also the obsolete verb which means "to mix, intermingle, blend" and "to soothe, flatter (a by-form of the fantastic "blandish").

As a side note, the word "blandandering" means to cajole (Kipling and Shaw seem to have used this colloquialism to great effect. I suppose in the end, we all must refuse to be blandandered.

But this blog is called blandemonium, a term coined by Seth H-K. and honed by him and Sean T-D. It is from them I learned the term... one they used to describe a specific genre of music bounded both chronologically and aesthetically. In time I plan to expand it a bit into a more totalizing concept that moves beyond just music, but for the time being, I will focus much of my discussion here on things musical, though the definition I've worked out hints at wider goals.

Here's a beta version:
Blandemonium (noun):
A category of cultural texts exhibiting a genial and balmy nature that so intermingles with and permeates the text's aesthetic and linguistic makeup that all meaning and intention encoded in production are entirely subsumed by said blandness.

I think it's a start. But I certainly will return to it as I move along....