Why do ppl feel the need to pretend that they don't enjoy music by certain artists?

I've never been bothered about admitting to a type of music, even though my taste in music used to be shocking.

Maybe because... they don't like it? Lady Gaga sounds like absolute total ****e to my mind, total and utter tedious noisy crap and no scientist is going to tell me otherwise.

If you like pop music that's fine but if you think for a second that it is on par with real music (you know, music that was actually written by the artist, with original lyrics, and instrumentation) then you are simply an idiot.

Also, it's no coincidence that people that stick up for pop on this site almost always write like primary school children. Pop music isn't 'artistic' it is industrial. It has nothing to do with creativity, it has even less to do with individuality (it isn't the consumer that creates the megastars, it's the producers that mold them into something that they already know will be hugely popular). You aren't an idiot for liking it or listening to it, but to pretend that it is about creativity then you are a total and complete moron.

Frankly I wish people would stop lumping pop music in with all other types of music, there is zero to link, say The Beatles, with anything that is currently in the charts. They are not the same thing - they are part of something entirely different.

Why is it that people just can't admit the fact that they do in fact like and enjoy that song by Lady Gaga or One direction. Objectively you might think that the lyrics is craps or the music is not fresh but why deny that you enjoy singing along and dancing to these tracks. I read an article about a study in which scientist tried to predict future pop hits by hooking people up to fMRI machines and they saw that the pleasure centres of the subjects brain lit up a lot when hit pop songs were played but when the subjects were asked how much they enjoyed the track, they tried to down play how enjoyable they found it. I also saw one of those 'Kids react to videos' on YouTube and this little girl was calling some classmates of hers lame because they liked a One Direction video and her criticism sounded so fake and forced. She seemed pretentious and I felt sad for her because she was already trying to pretend to be 'cool' at such a young age. I found the girl who admitted that she liked the song but wouldn't rabidly follow the band much more honest and she seemed to be actually enjoying herself and being a kid. I don't understand why people judge other people based on musical taste and also choose to pretend that they don't enjoy some thing just because it's not 'cool'. I also don't understand it when fans get all outraged about perceived plagiarism even after the original artist come out and declares that it's not plagiarism.

Obviously I know that there are people who genuinely might not enjoy mainstream pop and I'm not talking about them. ok this post has become a little rant-y but I stand by the points I've made

That's not true. The Beatles are most certainly pop. Yes, they write their own music and play their own instruments live but when it boils down to it, the music itself is similar to chart music today. Extremely easily accessible, catchy chorus and most importantly a Verse, Chorus, Verse structure. That is a pop song.

Pop music culture is entirely different though and that seems to be what you're talking about in reference to how corporate some pop music is.

Take the recent Coldplay album for example. Bar a few songs, it's basically an electro-pop album with songs such as magic and A Sky Full Of Stars as examples. Whilst you could say that sonically, Coldplay are more interesting and slightly less predictable, it's still pop but just slightly more innovative. However, there seems to be a huge row over liking Coldplay and then liking One Direction, which is silly.

I disagree, The Beatles were part of a musical phenomena, modern pop music is a financial phenomena. There are similarities but they are poles apart. They are different things, just as my shopping list wouldn't be considered 'modern literature'.