Yeah, I did it once that I can recall. Someone posted an article criticizing Trap Music (specifically the instrumental variety) and a bunch of posters, myself included, jumped all over it for its poor reasoning and snobby tone. And none of us liked trap.
Although our objections had to do with the original critic focusing on politics and not even touching on trap as music. If the argument had been "trap is terrible music" then we wouldn't have disagreed enough to respond—instead the argument was "instrumental trap is bad because it's cultural appropriation" which set off all our BS detectors.
I have defended country and rap music even though they are not my favourite genres. I cited the few songs that I liked from the genres and explained the huge diversity in the genres and said you cannot write off a whole genre of music because of a few bad songs/bands.
Like a mother hiding her scars history hides the lies of our unending warsI'm not saying it trivializes the term (which, as I've mentioned, is a pejorative anyway)—it trivializes the context that the term comes out of. And, more importantly, it just doesn't at all make sense in this context. Why not just call it "defending genres you don't like"? "Musical white-knighting" just sounds like a word salad.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.Nope. If I don't like something I'll cheerfully join in the kicking. White knights are tools. Black knighting is where it's at.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'![]()
You sure are getting bent out of shape over a title (which I'd prefer not to turn into the mouthful you're suggesting). It's moot anyway, since a mod is needed to change the title, and you seem to be the only one who cares.
Anyway, I'd have to agree with
on some level, mainly because the way I see it, people who do this are largely a bunch of hypocrites. Either they take it as an opportunity to dump on the offender's musical taste, use it to clear a guilty conscience of having been the offender in the past, or turn around in some different conversation, and become the offender there. For my part, I just can't stand to see a level of smugness over musical taste to the point of bullying others for theirs. My motivation for this hardly comes from some altruistic need to defend another person (it's elitism that really disgusts me).
Can anyone here say that they genuinely care about another person's right to enjoy a music without being bullied for it, to the point that they'd go out of their way to defend that right?
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I don't exactly see how "Defending genres you don't like" is anymore a mouthful than "Musical white-knighting" is. Besides, a lot more people would understand that over some obscure internet slang, which I think is 0dd1's point. Jumping all over him and saying he's getting bent out of shape over it when he's very well within reason to suggest a more suitable title is pretty unfair of you guys.
Would I defend a genre I don't like? Why would I? I don't like the genre.
edited 12th Dec '13 11:10:10 AM by LightPhaser
I guess on-topic, there aren't many genres I don't like—I can see merit in pretty much any form of music. I suppose stuff like brokeNCYDE I don't like, but I don't really feel any reason to defend them.
edited 13th Dec '13 1:18:49 AM by Odd1
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.

Like, for genres of music instead of women
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Does anyone do this? Defend a genre they don't like, for the sake of protecting its fans from elitists and bullies?
I try to keep my nose out of other people's business, but I've found myself doing this anyway on occasion. I kind of think maybe I shouldn't, just to avoid the conflict (let people deal with their own problems).
Have you ever found yourself sticking up for an musical form when someone claimed it had no artistic merit?
edited 29th Nov '13 10:06:45 AM by Alucard