27 Jun 13, 04:02AM
I personally don't enjoy a lot of dubstep. A lot of dubstep I can listen to. If it is a soundtrack or whatnot, I can stand it. As long as I don't have to pay much attention to it. Mainly for the fact that I believe not enough work goes into it to make it sound reasonable (just basic synths, get the ugly synths out of there!). But I'd like to propose a clarification to people. Qualify music into two different categories. Entertaining and Good. I find a lot of music entertaining, but I don't think it is good. Entertaining is more subjective than good. Good will tend to have certain qualities and be a bit less subjective.
People after asking me about my music tastes tend to follow up with the question "Oh, are you one of those musical elitists?". While I might be one of those elitists, I understand that people are entitled to their own tastes in music, as its perfectly okay for anyone to find anything entertaining. I might be taken aback if someone liked the sound of whitenoise, I won't think less of them. If someone said they liked Justin Bieber, I wouldn't really care, but if they said they thought his music was "Good", I'd be a little taken aback.
So, a lot of that discussion up there ^^ (half of which has been deleted), could've been resolved by using this distinction.
People after asking me about my music tastes tend to follow up with the question "Oh, are you one of those musical elitists?". While I might be one of those elitists, I understand that people are entitled to their own tastes in music, as its perfectly okay for anyone to find anything entertaining. I might be taken aback if someone liked the sound of whitenoise, I won't think less of them. If someone said they liked Justin Bieber, I wouldn't really care, but if they said they thought his music was "Good", I'd be a little taken aback.
So, a lot of that discussion up there ^^ (half of which has been deleted), could've been resolved by using this distinction.