I always wondered why people think that they are unique when it comes to music. Look around yourself, look at yourself, read the music section. Always you find people saying to each other "
great taste you have" or "YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW GREAT THEY ARE".
Always telling and wishing that more people should understand and know these musicians. And trying to explain how awesome and delightful they are.
If you are a bit older than 15, you will see that pop culture is dominating and was always dominating. Every decade or year some people claiming that this is the best music ever or even more than that, when years past, they tell never ever music will be such good like in the "xx's" (<--- insert a decade you want like 70's, 90's or whatever).
I can not even tell how many groups and musicians were in the last decade. Do you still listen to Eminem or 50 CENT?
Still a fan of Britney Spears? As time goes by they get replaced by other musicians. Always was.
It does not matter almost which genre, 95% belong to pop culture.
Do you think your genre is special? RnB? Metal? Electronic (a time it was called Techno)?
Most of you listen to the same crap every single year again and again. Musicians change but the quality remains same.
People who can not hold notes, can't even read music sheet.
People who need computers and programs to sound a little bit good.
People who can not play an instrument but call themselves "producers".
Or people who play the damn same basic guitar riff again and again and people fall in love with them.
Always same beats, time periods, same instruments.
But it is more about the "culture" around it. Like going to concerts, banging heads or screaming to Justin Timberlake or Adele or whatever.
Talentless people but they fill in a leak. There is a niche and that is all about.
It is always about ENTERTAINING.
Like you must be sexy, be naked, be a good entertainer, make some dance moves, talk about forbidden things, be a naughty boy, more stupid things you say more you will attract people. Or like the metal people make a culture around your music.
I want to understand where this great taste some of you have is.
Or for UK see
this.You see?
There is nothing special about you or your taste if you do not belong to the last group of genres but I guess not.
Of course there are thousand of musicians and every human being is a bit different, that means the probability that 2 people have same taste in music is near 0. But it is for ALL of us.
But to find some common things it is really easy except you really just belong to the last group of genres.
So that means your taste is not special and thouse music you listen to is mostly crap.
I gave in another thread simple criteria for everyone to look for:
Lyrics, voice, composition and virtuosity
Lyrics? You are the nation of Shakespeare. And all people who have a little bit clue about poetry or great writers, you will see that the most lyrics in music business are crap. Like they wrote them down in 5 minutes after a shower and having, if they have, always same rhymes and stupid sentences like from a 5 year old child.
Voices? Compare their records with their concerts. You will see how crap they are. Most of them can't even sing. And if they can sing, which is rare, then their voice is low. Like little tone range, can't hold for long tones, can not sing loud, and so on. Did I mention software to make your voice sound well?
Composition? This needs a bit technical information.
But if there are musicians around here, they will tell you how they use simple riffs and melodic compononents.
Like RnB. They have like the same "beat" or background music (i dont know how they call it) again and again.
Or these days House music and David Guetta or something. Fake claps, fake "dance thrilling sections" and so on.
Virtuosity? Someone who did not listen to Classical Music can not know what this even means.
My last point is.
Always, I had 2 discussions already about this, when I say that the band or musican you listen to is crap, people feel offended and always claiming that this is not true. ALWAYS.
If I start to argue about this, people tell me always the same.
Maybe soon some of you will give us some examples of "great music" and then I will tell you that this is not true. And then you will see how they will react. It is like 1 million people and 1 million people telling me that their music is the best.
What do you think?
I am to snobbish? Or is your narcissism telling you that your taste is just different and special?
And where is the bad music? Everyone saying that their taste is good. So what is bad then? There must be good and bad music. But if everyone thinking that their music is good, that means there is no bad at all.
But this is not possible.
Like saying every soccer player is a good soccer player. Just because someone plays soccer does not make him good. Like not just because someone produces music he is not good. Can not be.
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