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04-20-2012, 10:04 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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I think that whether or not one has bad taste in music depends more on how you address the things you don't like rather than the things you like. As pretty much everyone has agreed on so far, taste in music is subjective - it's all about what appeals to you. There isn't really even a definition of music that holds for all cases, so it's not like there's a "standard" to compare to.
I think it's fine to only like one type of music, hell, even just one band, provided you say that it's not that the music you don't like is bad, it's just not your thing. You may have a narrow taste in music, you might not be willing to experiment, but provided you say "hey man, that music you listen to is cool, but it just doesn't appeal to me", that's good taste. To turn around and say that everything you don't like is ****, to me, is Bad Taste, because you won't even entertain the concept that anything other than your opinion is valid.
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04-20-2012, 01:46 PM | #12 (permalink) | ||
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I do agree with this. Especially people who will make a judgement about a band without listening to them because they are in a genre that they don't like.
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Like....if they were listening to jazz as you noted, and you don't listen to jazz that much, you wouldn't find the music too appealing at first. The more popular judgement is to go toward assuming they have bad taste, though they just don't listen to what you like. |
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04-20-2012, 01:53 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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Taste isn't objective. I don't think anyone here would argue against that, however, you have to admit that subjectivity is boring.
So I look at music as being relative. For instance, while my taste may not be objectively better than a 15 year old Linkin Park fan's, I have had more experience as a whole with music, and thus have a better idea of what I like in music than the 15 year old pop punk fan. This does not "prove" any of my opinions, but it does give them weight. |
04-20-2012, 01:56 PM | #16 (permalink) | |
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04-20-2012, 01:59 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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I'm kind of a musical pushover though. |
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04-20-2012, 02:02 PM | #18 (permalink) | |
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04-20-2012, 02:05 PM | #19 (permalink) |
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I never meant to bring age into the argument as a factor. Certainly an 18 year old with 6000 albums rated on RYM is going to have a better idea of what he likes than I do, even if I've had a few more years on the earth to poke around and find out.
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04-20-2012, 02:07 PM | #20 (permalink) | |
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Certainly an 18 year old with 6000 albums rated on RYM is going to have a better idea of what he likes than I do |
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