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Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie
All music bashing is elitism really, innit. It's the ego telling itself it's cultured or discerning or intelligent or such like. It's a phantom lying to itself. Haha.
And we all fall for it. Sometimes I hear The Spice Girls on the radio and I think "what awful music" when really it's just music I dislike. Stupid thoughts!
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I kind of disagree with that, I think there are simple manufactured musical compositions and then more complex interesting ones.
For example, the talent that went into composing and creating Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is much greater than the Spice Girl's Wannabe.
Though there has been this sort of trend since western civilizations abandonment of high culture for consumer culture.
For instance, it takes more talent to produce Mozart's 9th symphony than say something by John Coltrane, and yet I would argue that Coltrane's albums are more sophisticated than, Led Zeppelin, and of course Zeppelin is much more sophisticated than Green Day, likewise Curtis Mayfield over 2PAC.
The democratization of music has brought us punk rock and rap, which has produced some good music, but it is both technically, and it's composition, inferior to the artists of the 70's listed above.
I think the key is technology. The more technology makes music easier to make, the more that non talent a$$holes are able to enter into the game. But in the end its all good, that's just the way human evolution roles.
I myself would rather listen to 2Pac than Mozart.