Let's be honest here, people...(music taste question)

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@Sparky: No man. That just sounds pretentious. :(

This troper has been called out on her music taste from one of her friends after this troper admitted to personally hating that song called Notice Me(which she loves). This troper has a lot of classical music(mostly romantic) and like British music like The Fratellis, and The Smiths and apparently this troper has shitty music taste. It is more of a bias to be personally honest.

I listen to a lot of avant garde music because the idea of sound art as a visual artist fascinates me, in the same way House Of Leaves inspires me to create visual images that are of an unsettling tone even without any real violent imagery.

On the other hand, I held onto my original pressing of Baha Men's Who Let The Dogs Out album since I was ten years old, and I cherish it as an example of a more innocent time in radio oriented music when you could listen to the radio without being bombarded with sexualised lyrics and imagery on MTV as well. Music from the year 2000 to me has a lot of pre-9/11 innocence to it that I really like, it was the last year of my childhood before the world seemed so much darker to me. Probably because I became more aware of the world's woes.

"Who Let the Dogs Out" is about ugly women at a party, and the singers lamenting that they won't be able to bone any of them.

Thanks for ruining my childhood Spain. You just ruined it.

You're welcome.

In seriousness, if you're actually upset, I apologize, that wasn't really my intention here. As for the thing I posted, I don't know if it's true or not, second-hand information you see.

edited 1st Oct '10 9:23:35 AM by SpainSun

"Who Let the Dogs Out" is about ugly women at a party, and the singers lamenting that they won't be able to bone any of them.

I'm not sure that's correct...

Yeah, in "Who Let The Dogs Out", it's men being called dogs by women for making lewd comments. On the other hand the lyrics do seem to claim that doing such a thing is just all in good fun ("Hey man, it's part of the party!")

As far as Mariah Carey goes, I've always liked "All I Want For Christmas Is You". For a while I was convinced she must have Covered Up a Christmas song by some 60's girl group with that one, but it turns out that she and the guy who co-wrote it just did a good job of writing something modern with that kind of a feel to it.

edited 1st Oct '10 12:58:20 PM by MikeK

I only object to one's taste in music when they think that their opinion is the ONLY opinion. My sister derides me for liking Pink Floyd, The Protomen, The Beatles, and worst of all, THE VERY MAN THAT PRACTICALLY INSPIRED EVERY GUITARIST AFTER HIS DEATH. She likes any Disney Channel star choking the airwaves, and anything that's currently popular. It hit the boiling point when she changed the radio channel, and I questioned her taste in music, where she said she had good taste in music because anything made before the 90s is automatically shit BECAUSE SHE SAID SO. Holy shit.

Your sister is trolling you so fucking hard and you have no idea.

Or genuinely stupid in the extreme.

Either way, what do you care?

Good taste in music = listening to what you honestly like and not being afraid to admit it, no matter how mindlessly trendy/shamelessly out-of-fashion it might be.

Oh, and being able to see the appeal in something you do not personally enjoy. Example: I don't much care for grindcore metal, but having been to a concert of it I can get the appeal. Same with most punk.

And liking music "ironically" is for douche bags.

For me, a person has good taste in music when he or she can legitimately defend what they like with reasonable arguments. The only bad opinion is a misinformed one. If someone only occasionally gets exposed to top 40 radio and declares that all music today sucks, that is a bad opinion.

Good taste seems entirely subjective as far as I can tell.

Now then, in a person, having the ability to sit and listen to music without going bonkers because they don't like it or some "reason" of truly questionable value, is important. Another important thing is not just trying to be "up to date with the trends" but realize what we like and accept constants that we personally are comfortable with, or that we may just simply like to jump from one thing to another. This last one of course has a downside, it may leave you without the ability to just delve into the music itself for further enjoyment.

Why does this thread keep getting bumped? :|

Because thread bumping is permitted and it's a question which invites a variety of opinions?

Note that I don't really care, just seems like an odd choice to resurrect so often.

maybe it's me, I dunno.

Okay, so I'm one of those who go around digging up whatever halfway (or all the way) obscure music there is to find, some more well-known globally than locally, some not even well-known. Also, it is very, VERY hard to find people knowledgeable about music where I live. Outside of their genre, if they even have one, not even the most widespread of some musical styles are known.

And most people just go insisting theirs is the best - I met this one guy who kept telling me that every other genre apart from heavy and trash metal isn't metal at all and for that matter, shouldn't even be considered music.

Now, I do on occasion promote more attention to lesser-known musical acts (e.g. The Angelic Process, The Peculiar Pretzelmen, Access to Arasaka, etc.) but have no problem with them growing more popular (no, Abney Park doesn't suck now that anything remotely steampunk has their name on it.)

But I don't presume to have a "better taste" or "deeper knowledge" than the next guy (I do rightfully claim more information, though). They enjoy things in terms of music that I don't, and vice-versa.

So, what's the point? I don't know, I just write volumes and then go, oh, what was my point? Oh yeah. There's no sliding scale of taste, so there is no "bad" taste, just taste unlike our own.

I have better taste than the next guy also why you necro

No, the better question is, why does this thread keep getting bumped by people who never post again, anywhere in the forum.

My taste fluctuates heavily. One day I may be into that obscure new proto-post-minimalgaze-punkstep group with one listener on last.fm, and the next day I might be listening strictly to Ke$ha. So I believe in a prominent element of subjectivity as far as musical tastes are concerned. It's openness to new things that determines how far from the norm one is willing to reach, and your degree of disapproval of popular things, I believe, is due to shallowness. A sliding range of variable depth, if you will.

That's how I see it, at least.

I'd be inclined to say that the record collector has better taste than the guy who only listens to what's on the radio.

edited 13th Nov '10 2:39:37 AM by DonZabu

What Meta said.