Open letter to poser-indy-music-scenesters

[bad beetz]

When you say, “the Go-Go’s are gay…”

What you are really saying is the following….

“There is nothing truly individual about me. I feel the need to be different. I’m going go about this by looking different than everyone else, and finding music that no one else likes and then claim that I love it. I’ll devote the rest of my effort to actively hating anything popular.”

Belinda Carlisle rocks out. The music is so simple and wonderful. If you think it doesn’t rock, what you are really thinking is the above……

You should be jettisoned into the sun, along with Skinny Puppy, The Smiths, and Metal Church.

[shant]

Why do people argue over things like music or movies? Doesn't it all come down to personal preference?

[ilya]

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It may, but the implications of that are just so depressing.

Seriously though, I think that communities argue about art in order to define & understand themselves better. Whether it makes sense to talk about one piece of art as being Better than another is an incredibly difficult question, but people(s) can still learn a lot about themselves by examining why this or that piece of art appears to them to be better, & even by examining their understanding of "better."

Plus it's fun.

[Cancer Merchant]

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It may, but the implications of that are just so depressing.


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Of course, beauty is absolute, our puny human minds can not conceive how it could be otherwise!

Truth must be the same way. Have you accepted the One True God?

Ugh. Pompous prats, the lot of them.

[Sephus]

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Why do people argue over things like music or movies? Doesn't it all come down to personal preference?

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It may, but the implications of that are just so depressing.


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Of course, beauty is absolute, our puny human minds can not conceive how it could be otherwise!

Truth must be the same way. Have you accepted the One True God?

Ugh. Pompous prats, the lot of them.

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that's just like, your opinion, man.

[bdk3clash]

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Not really. My tastes in music, movies, and books are pretty clearly better than those of most people I've come across.

[jacki]

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Your favorite band sucks.

[jokerthief]

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Why do people argue over things like music or movies? Doesn't it all come down to personal preference?

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It always starts with someone trying to get another to appreciate a style that that person doesn't like. I am very guilty of this. However, I have taken 8 people who claimed that they would never like Dave Matthews Band and turned them into hardcore DMB fans. This has benefited me greatly by allowing me to play DMB music around them and going to concerts with some of them. I will continue to be annoying when it occasionally pays off.

[jacki]

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The Smiths

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You were right on until this part.

[Jack of Arcades]

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Skinny Puppy

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You were right on until this part.

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