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Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic
There's a lot of truth to that. When you're growing up and you kind of figure out the type of music speaks to you the most, there's always people in the older generation that shit on the bands you love. There's a lot of new music kids are into these days that I can't for the life of me get into but I try not to judge peoples tastes.
The only thing that's aggrevating too me is that way too many artists are described as musical geniuses. So many of these white liberal music critics are afraid of being called racist, so they'll gush over Kanye Wests albums and call him a genius.
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I'm into music enough that I actually set a challenge for myself. I had TONS of people whose musical opinions I respected (Reaper16 on this board being one) who loved metal. I've never been able to get into metal at all, even though I love a lot of different genres. I decided that there must be some reason that metal is good and appealing. So... I set about listening to metal a few years back (I actually started a thread explaining what qualities I appreciated in music and looking for metal albums that would fit that bill) in order to discover what people liked about it. It took a while, but I eventually developed a taste for metal.
The moral (I guess): is that passing value judgements on music (this decade is better than this decade or music stopped being good at this point) is sort of silly and a non starter.
Since then, my musical viewing has completely changed. I almost always listen to stuff and ask myself, "Why do people like this? What's appealing about it?" It's sort of a dispassionate, academic way of viewing music, but it's really increased the scope of music I find enjoyable. Admittedly, there are times when I'm just throwing my hands in the air screaming, "STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM NOW WE HERE," but a lot of the time, even with the poppiest bullshit, I'm just interested in figuring out why it has appeal.