[kj] [OT] Music Snobbery

[Alexander Smith]

Negative reviews are easier and -- quite frankly -- more fun to write.  
Sad but true.

Alex in NYC


On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:43 PM, folk devil wrote:


> I've always had a gripe with people who just dismiss a track by  

> saying 'it's shit'. If you don't like it, you don't like it. And if  

> you're inept of being able to give it a critique, shut up.

> I have also never understood the point in a negative album/single  

> review. At the end of the day, music is Subjective.

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> From: vassifer at earthlink.net

> To: dpeace at suspiria.demon.co.uk

> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:39:28 -0400

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> Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Music Snobbery

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> Well, that's my point. I may know full well that, say, Kiss or The  

> Exploited or The Fixx or The Wonder Stuff make music that is bereft  

> of critical credibility, but my reasons for appreciating the music  

> of each of those bands (and scores of others) has nothing to do with  

> popular consensus or any easily quantifiable measurement of merit.  

> People identify with music because it speaks to them on some  

> indefinable level. This is largely why the world doesn't need music  

> critics. I could write volume after laboriously wordy volume about  

> why you shouldn't listen to indefensible piffle like Lady GaGa or  

> Michael Jackson, but if you like it -- you like it. And know  

> cleverly-worded screed penned by me or anyone else can change that.  

> Music is about -- or should be about, at least -- emotion. Emotions  

> cannot be controlled so simply.

>

> At the end of the day, if someone doesn't understand my affinity for  

> one artist or another, that's ultimately THEIR loss in the end. I  

> know full well that Kiss made largely meaningless music, but I still  

> like it. I'll lambast Michael Jackson's music as worthless product,  

> but I doubt that diminishes anyone else's fervor for it.

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> Alex in NYC

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