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Old 11-02-2011, 02:46 PM   #54 (permalink)
lucifer_sam
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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA View Post
The concept of "good" or "bad" applied to music only works if specific criteria for judgment are agreed upon (by the judges) in advance.
Sure, this works. But this only presents a different perspective from which subjective opinions are valued; it is the act of externalizing an opinion (from its subject) and canonizing it. Your own distaste for "Like a Rolling Stone" should be evidence enough that an objective "good" and "bad" simply doesn't exist.

But that, I feel, is one of the great appeals to music -- everyone has their own preferences, and nobody is any more "correct" in their convictions than anyone else.
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