Quote Originally Posted by psychocat
Music is music , wether it's a concerto or some guy banging on a lid and singing off key , if someone gets pleasure from it then it's good.
People judge on thier own tastes and thier own assumed superiority , music can be so many things and the criteria for measuring it must be just as diverse.
I like a lot of ridiculous little ditties that as far as the purists are concerned are shit songs , they fail to understand that the songs weren't written to show off intellectually but simply to entertain , in this they more than succeed.

Assuming that your own taste in music is somehow superior to anothers is simply a sign of arrogance.
While this may be true, there are way too many people out there that AREN'T doing it to entertain. They are just doing it to make a big bucks. They could care less what it sounds like or what the lyrics are, as long as it makes them a "baller". Someone may not be able to sing very well or even play very well, but as long as they put there heart and soul into their music, they are much more talented then some of these main stream "musicians".

I just simply can not listen to empty songs. Someone who TRUELY appreciates music, would know that music isn't just music.

That would be like saying a car is just a car. You can't say you appreciate cars and then go buy a V6 mustang with an automatic. If you truely appreciated cars, you would have bought something of similar in value yet with much more integrity and performance. Like a Pontiac Solstice for example, it's built to perform, not just look pretty.

The music that gets played on MTV is like a beautiful girl with no brains. It may be easy to get caught up in the beat (or beauty of the girl), yet when you actually start listening to what they are saying, it makes your head hurt with the nonsense that you're hearing.
JaySin Reviewed by JaySin on . How subjective is music, really? People always say everything's a matter of taste, and that's true for what people should listen to/read, etc....as far as actual quality, though, you can't really say it doesn't matter if you prefer Shakespeare or Danielle Steele. Same as music, I think...can everyone's tastes really be respected if some prefer MTV trash to the works of, say, Hendrix or Bob Dylan? Just a thought. Rating: 5