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User avatar #45 - glamoiglia (06/20/2012) [-]
Some people don't take music that seriously and are okay with simply, contrived music that will get old quickly. They don't care that it doesn't satisfy you, and you look like an asshole for criticizing it.

At work last night, a coworker was playing some Pop music, and I swear, the chorus only had four or five notes in it. I was going to point it out, but then I remembered "this guy probably can't hear that there are only four or five notes in it, and enjoys it regardless. I'd just be acting like a dick."
User avatar #52 to #45 - goldenpotato (06/20/2012) [-]
I dunno, it just irritates me.
User avatar #57 to #52 - glamoiglia (06/20/2012) [-]
It irritates me, too. But unless someone's playing Nicki Minaj, I'm not going to say anything.

Well, or the "Hip-Hop" that isn't even poetic or rhythmic. The kind that is just arhythmic, monotonal mumbling. I can't think of an example, but I've heard a lot of it.
User avatar #59 to #57 - goldenpotato (06/20/2012) [-]
I think I know what you mean, low-talking over a amateur beat. Right?
User avatar #60 to #59 - glamoiglia (06/20/2012) [-]
Yeah. People are lowering their bars for what they find entertaining in music, I guess. Or the music industry is lowering people's bars for them so they don't have to try as hard to make a new song that sells big.
User avatar #61 to #60 - goldenpotato (06/20/2012) [-]
"Simple things entertain simple minds."

I'd say it's more of the latter.
User avatar #63 to #61 - glamoiglia (06/20/2012) [-]
But the industry has a role in making the minds simpler, I think, since they choose what the popular music is.
User avatar #64 to #63 - goldenpotato (06/20/2012) [-]
True, true. Back when, people just made music, and if people liked it it became popular. Back when music was better.
User avatar #67 to #64 - glamoiglia (06/20/2012) [-]
I wouldn't say better. Actually, I'd argue that some music today is more creative than some of the most respected music in the 60's and 70's.

Also, lots of stupid music was made back then, but it's all forgotten. Still, the industry's process wasn't as refined for marketing what people would buy. Music almost always sold by albums, so they'd be making a good amount of money whether someone liked one song on an album or all the songs on an album. These days, the industry has to adjust because people can just buy one song at a time.
User avatar #68 to #67 - goldenpotato (06/20/2012) [-]
Yeah, that is true. I think I only said that because a lot of the music I listen to is older. I mean, not all of it, but a lot of it.
User avatar #69 to #68 - glamoiglia (06/20/2012) [-]
That's how it was for me, but now I mainly listen to music made within the past decade or so. The earliest I go is late 80's/early 90's Shoegaze.
User avatar #72 to #69 - goldenpotato (06/20/2012) [-]
Yeah, me too. A lot of 90's gangsta rap and some earlier classic rap. The occasional funk as well, which can't be too old.
User avatar #71 to #69 - goldenpotato (06/20/2012) [-]
"Shoegaze"?
User avatar #74 to #73 - goldenpotato (06/20/2012) [-]
I like it.
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