Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Whats forced though? If its on at work? Tons of terrible songs, that many of the posters here masturbate to, both the **** out of me. If anything, the hardcore music fans are far more irritating than your average pop fan. A pop fan who likely doesn't have nearly the same infatuation with the music they just want to sing along to or dance to.

What most complain about is tweens/teens who are looking for some cultural movement to cling onto so they have a direction to take their life in. Even if these false idols are simply attractive. But when you boil it down like this, you realize these one-post wonder with all their teen angst (which is equally infantile) are simply pissy that teenagers are trying to figure out who they are and they do so through music. Music that arguably has little merit, but has high value in creating social networks for people.

I have almost no respect for these people as they refuse to admit that this music has value for other people. Its both an ignorant and short-sighted world view. As you've said, no ones forced to listen to this music, so whats the problem? I think they won't admit it, but hating this music with the volume they do is their own cultural grip-bar; something to hang onto to bond them to other people.

I'm fine with both, but go post somewhere else.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Agreed.
Excellent point about the cultural grip-bar. I guess there might be some functionality in it, but I don't even see the need for it. I guess it's because I've grown up and no longer care about fitting into a group, much less a particular anti-music ideal.
I don't understand why it's so hard for people to just ignore things they don't like. I could venture to say that I wouldn't like most of what plays on MTV, and I'm fine with that... but I'm not going to go and watch MTV 24 hours a day then endlessly complain that there's nothing but crap on it. It's like the kid who puts his hand on a hot stove, burns it, and keeps doing it because he likes to cry and enjoys the attention.

Also, I couldn't give less of a damn about what values pop fans may or may not have regarding their music taste. Why should I be concerned about that? People that complain about the state of a demographic regarding music taste and tendencies, that they don't even care for to begin with, are what's annoying. There is no off button or tuner dial on people's mouths.