When
people say they dont like any other genre of music but their favorite
one or few, I can't help but wonder, why do they need to place those
kind of boundaries on their preferences? And why does it seem to me
that the people who most frequently need to classify their tastes,
seem to think that their opinion is the quintessential opinion. These
folks deem themselves to be gurus of what is good and what isn't in
the music kingdom.
I
guess I missed a memo, because I thought that part of the beauty of
creative art was that it is subjective. Wouldn't that mean that these
gurus are doing exactly the opposite of what a music kingdom's ruler
would do?
I
love music. I can't name a song from every genre of music out there,
but I would be hard pressed to think of a kind of music that I just
flat out do not like. There are styles that appeal to me more so than
others, and tracks from all that I do not enjoy.
I
believe that beyond my own personal taste, I cannot evaluate music.
I'll go one further and add that as far as I am concerned, no one
else can either.
Don't
get me wrong, I can appreciate the need to put value on music. It's
one of the most marketable commodities in the world. And so to track
the sales of concert tickets, albums, mp3s , merchandise etc...as a
measure of popularity, makes sense. It's a capitolist world after
all. But if I had a buck-seventy-five for the number of times I have
heard a hit, and been irritable, nauseated, even compelled to cover
my ears and sing an obnoxious version of Henery the 8th to drown the
source of my pending insanity out, I would be having a jolly good
Christmas this year, at least!
Yes,
I have been tempted to behave like an ass over how much I don't enjoy
the music that is playing, but I dont! Sure, my husband will hear
about it later, if I am stuck working with someone who won't stop
blaring death metal all day, and I might even politely ask if we can
change the music at some point to 'something we all like', but I'm
not about to go ahead and tell someone that I think their taste
sucks. That's rude! And worse still, it's music snobbery!
The
point I am trying to make, is that I am tired of hearing people say
things like, 'that last album, was soo poorly produced, and their
talent disappeared when 'so-and-so' left anyway. Anybody who thinks
that 'that band' are worth anything really has no clue about music".
To
you; Music Snob,
Who
the shit are you to say that someone is talentless? And if it was
produced so that it could be heard by you, me, and countless others,
then the production did the trick. It is a 'product', ya know? In my
assessment, if you had a clue what sounds good, and what does not,
then you would not trash the music, or the people who enjoy it for
doing so, simply to hear yourself sound important, as your negative
spin on what I, or anyone else is enjoying, is pretty much never more
pleasing to listen to than the music you are interupting.
Yeah,
few things irritate me like music snobbery.
Peace
to all non music snobs.
PS.
The super cool pic of a 'Sound Wave' by Korean artist Jean Shin I
punked from this website.
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