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Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up
Josefbugman:
Oh its a hip thing to mock a band that hasn't produced music in an age... okay.
Its sort of like the whole "I would like snow patrol if they weren't so commercial" thing isn't it? Like blaming "the man" for everything but being too lazy to do anything about it, or doing it to get girls.
öde:
I would like Snow Patrol if they weren't so tedious.
Slick:
I tend to avoid terms like 'commercial' as they weaken an argument by bringing with them charged/radicalizing preconceptions people carry towards them/their use.
P.S.: Oh god I always forget who Snow Patrol are until they come up here and then I look them up and remember I fucking hate snow patrol. They're a terribly tacky sentimental bullshit band.
Josefbugman:
If you don't like them fine. I'm not saying everyone should, but when people say they don't like them because of some reason that isn't actually related to the actual music produced then what the heck?
It just strikes me as silly when they don't like a band for nothing to do with actual music produced. I mean I like bands most people with "taste" won't touch, but I like them anywhere.
Slick:
See, I maintain that "they're too commercial" can actually be a valid argument relating to the quality of their music. I think they sound too commercial, they belong to a school of musical activity where their sound and message appears to be directly marketed towards a certain demographic (that being people who like tacky make-out music) and in this commercial approach they have failed to make meaningful or even entertaining music to me. Their production process reeks of the sound of blandly produced inoffensive commercially saleable music and this means I do not like it. I do not like it because I feel they are too commercial.
I would never enter an argument about snow patrol by saying they are too commercial, though, because someone will come along and talk about how I've just got a problem with the man and then mention something else negative about my character because of what they read into me by my choice of words. I'd much rather give a brief, concise argument than say they're sell outs.
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