[kj] [OT] Music Snobbery

[Karen Weil]

Solid points, Folk and Alex. (Given my thrashing here over my dislike for one particular Manic Street Preachers tune -- which I found quite bombastic -- I've since learned to keep that in mind.)

k.w.



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  From: folk devil 
  To: gathering at misera.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:43 AM
  Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Music Snobbery


  I've always had a gripe with people who just dismiss a track by saying 'it's shit'. If you don't like it, you don't like it. And if you're inept of being able to give it a critique, shut up.
  I have also never understood the point in a negative album/single review. At the end of the day, music is Subjective.
   

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  From: vassifer at earthlink.net
  To: dpeace at suspiria.demon.co.uk
  Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:39:28 -0400
  CC: gathering at misera.net
  Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Music Snobbery




  Well, that's my point. I may know full well that, say, Kiss or The Exploited or The Fixx or The Wonder Stuff make music that is bereft of critical credibility, but my reasons for appreciating the music of each of those bands (and scores of others) has nothing to do with popular consensus or any easily quantifiable measurement of merit. People identify with music because it speaks to them on some indefinable level. This is largely why the world doesn't need music critics. I could write volume after laboriously wordy volume about why you shouldn't listen to indefensible piffle like Lady GaGa or Michael Jackson, but if you like it -- you like it. And know cleverly-worded screed penned by me or anyone else can change that. Music is about -- or should be about, at least -- emotion. Emotions cannot be controlled so simply.


  At the end of the day, if someone doesn't understand my affinity for one artist or another, that's ultimately THEIR loss in the end. I know full well that Kiss made largely meaningless music, but I still like it. I'll lambast Michael Jackson's music as worthless product, but I doubt that diminishes anyone else's fervor for it.






  Alex in NYC











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