Music Banter And It’s Hatred of Mainstream Pop Music (genre, albums)

Merkaba · 05-29-2006, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by davidMC1982

Once people realise that music serves no higher purpose than to entertain, we can all go about our business listening to whatever we want without being criticised for lack of taste. Music is nothing more than entertainment.

Nothing more then entertainment? It's far more then that to many, especially the musicians themselves.

You can't tell me Tori Amos sang 'Me and a Gun' in a bid to entertain people.

But the rest of your post makes good sense. The way I read it, you were saying Pop music is like a foot in the door, giving the opportunity for people to see whats inside the room if they really want to. I can agree with that.

TrampInaTux · 05-29-2006, 03:35 AM

I can't agree with that. Listening to Baha Men (which I did as a child) didn't open up doors for me to listen to what I listen to today. In some ways it slowed me down, as I stuck to cheesy Pop songs for ages.

davidMC1982 · 05-29-2006, 04:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Merkaba

Nothing more then entertainment? It's far more then that to many, especially the musicians themselves.

You can't tell me Tori Amos sang 'Me and a Gun' in a bid to entertain people.

But the rest of your post makes good sense. The way I read it, you were saying Pop music is like a foot in the door, giving the opportunity for people to see whats inside the room if they really want to. I can agree with that.

Ok, to the artist themselves, a given song or piece of music may have more meaning, but they put it out there for people to enjoy. To those that listen to it, it is entertainment. Even when a song makes you sad, or has sad memories attached to it, you still listen to it because you get some form of enjoyment out of it. You wouldn't listen if you didn't like.

Hobojesus, you're in for a hard time in the real world. How successful you are has little to do with how good you are, and more to do with who you know and how determined you are to be successful. That's the way the world works. Fair enough you don't like pop, but others do, is there anything so wrong in that?

Dave

05-29-2006, 03:35 AM	#2 (permalink)
TrampInaTux that's my war face. Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,412	I can't agree with that. Listening to Baha Men (which I did as a child) didn't open up doors for me to listen to what I listen to today. In some ways it slowed me down, as I stuck to cheesy Pop songs for ages.