Trollheart

I do, yes. That's the whole reason (or most of it) that I started the "Stranger in a strange land" section, where I purposely --- and often painfully --- explore a genre or sub-genre of music I not only am not knowledgeable about, but generally regard as not to my taste. My reasoning is, if I take the time to get to know this genre as best I can, by sampling a cross-section of the bands/artistes who practice it, it can work one of two ways:

1. I can suddenly and to my surprise find the music is not as bad as I thought it was, and therefore not be so cutting in my criticism of it or

2. I can now be informed enough to be able to support any arguments I make, citing examples and thereby being even more cutting in my criticism of this genre or whatever.

Of course, as you say, music taste is subjective, and there are people who will generalise with comments like "all metal is loud therefore crap" or "boyband music is all manufactured". While the latter maybe true, it doesn't necessarily disqualify the genre as ... well, it does, but you know what I mean!

Basically, if you don't know about it, don't rant about it, is where I'm coming from.

And now, the results of the second choice for Room 101...

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