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Tolerance
Tom:
Ho does it not?
Jimmy the Squid:
I told a girl at my work that she is a walking hipster cliche but, to be fair, she is.
SleeperCylon:
People shouldn't be forced to listen to music they find really terrible. Especially if that music comes from somebody like Justin Timberlake who represents all the superficial, financial, image-obsessive, non-musical influences on music.
It's good to be tolerant and not to make a fuss if there's nothing you can do about it anyway, but you don't need to take every opinion equally. People who are casual listeners tend to only focus on the vocal melody and the skin-revealed quotient of the singer. They don't listen to lots of different music and decide on their own what they like best, they listen to whatever their friends are listening to. They aren't listening with an open mind and will probably flatly dismiss anything that sounds different from the kind of music they tend to listen to.
Whereas people who listen to lots of different music and think on their own gain more music listening experience and take the entire piece into account. The vocal melody, the beat, the instruments, chord progressions, riffs, etc.
You absolutely do not have to take opinions based on the former thought process on the same level of respect as opinions based on the latter thought process.
Kai:
Yeah, I like to pretend that because I listen to music more than someone else obviously makes my ear just naturally better than those plebeians. How dare they listen to things they could quite possibly actually enjoy? I mean, how can you even enjoy music without having heard that every record the Fall ever put out? (See, it's funny because that's like 8000 records)
Ballard:
Heh, it's not ear training so much as preference. If you've checked out every kind of music that's out there, from Top 40 to the most obscure, and you enjoyed SexyBack more than anything else, far be it from me to berate you. That's what you enjoy, and you have every right to enjoy it. But it's basically proven fact that a large portion (not going to make up numbers here) of people who listen to Top 40 do so out of sheer laziness, even if they don't realize this themselves. What's most easily available is what they listen to. Not only this, but they will most likely have listened to only one or two tracks- the singles, by that artist. They're too lazy to go buy (or even download) the album and hear it through though they supposedly like the single.
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