take some ecstasy and listen to it and you'll be like "OHHHHHHH now i see"
i like you.
and i dont like the whole argument about what type of music is easier/harder to make, to me it doesnt make a difference. ive heard fantastic albums that anyone with a weeks worth of lessons on instruments could make, and ive also heard albums that must have taken years and endless hours of perfecting that i listened to once and found boring. when i say i dont like a band like, say, dream theater, the first thing anyone who likes them says about them is "but they're such talented musicians!!!!11" well yeah, but that doesnt mean they're not excruciatingly boring (which they are.) to me music is the end product, no matter how its made, whether its manipulated by computer programs, autotune, whatever, doesnt matter to me as long as it sounds good.
and i like very select "screamo"/hardcore bands, so i wont say i hate the genre. but why i dont like any of these newer hardcore bands around today is because i dont think they have anything to be angry about. a lot of them are yelling about absolutely nothing, mostly abstractions, which kinda just puts me off completely. i like hardcore of the 90's cause they were actually angry about something, and the screaming was a reflection of that. but nowadays i feel screaming itself has overtaken the message aspect of it.
and i think the distinction in pop music everyone is looking for was mentioned earlier. its okay to hate manufactured pop music i guess, since the idea of it is kinda off-putting, like how its designed to be non-threatening or challenging, and basically insults your intelligence as a music listener. but sometimes there's musicians who can just completely make a song that everyone in the world loves, like outkast.







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