sheep. if those were the guidelines we ALL used to choose our music, we'd all like the same things. this proves to me that YOU are part of the construct. you drone.
so....you think people should pick their favorite music out of stuff they don't have fun listening to?
and i never said i listened to them that much. they dont get that much play on my ipod, but i listen sometimes to a song or two.
you know, my first line about picking music out of things that aren't fun is half sarcastic, but honestly, some of the music out there proves to me that some people actually choose music not because they have fun listening to it, but only to be a pretentious music snob and think they are better than everyone else. this isn't directed at you or anyone here, i'm just saying in general. oh my goodness. there should just be a genre called pretentious rock. for people who think they are all that because they like this band that refers to some obscure turkish theater performance that only ran during the monsoon season in the early 1800's and have twenty minute songs that are made up of strange noises and where one of the band members, in fact, plays the clavicle. yes, the bone. then they go to the local pretentious rock show and pretend to have fun by looking like they're not having fun, when, in fact, they're really not having fun. then they sit around their barren apartments on hard chairs with their pretentious rock friends and discuss the rousing nature of that last song where minute-long gaps of silence are used as a metaphor to symbolize the despair of the poor mariner who lost his dog to the wrath of the sea and how the faint tingle of the triangle was so perfectly placed after the silence.
some people need to loosen up and realize that its ok to actually enjoy your life.
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Hahaha - I'm in the pretentious rock genre. I relate very closely to John Cusack in "High Fidelity".
I think it's because I think of music as very closely tied to poetry, and I don't read sucky poetry, you know? I like catchy bands too, but I want something that's at least remotely cerebral, like the vandals, rather than just mindless poppiness, which is what fall out boy seems like to me. But I do find myself feeling like an idiot singing along to the sometimes stupid lyrics of the ataris, because their music is catchy. :P
i agree with this kind of. i do need some mental stimulation most of the time when i listen to music. not that it cant be catchy, or simple. i just want it to be meaningful.
although once in a while i will listen to some super poppy music, i just find it to be less creative.
jp is right about not listening to music based on what other people like, or because you feel you need to impress people with your musical tastes, but i still just genuinely hate fall out boy. they are just way to commercial for me, and i hate everything they stand for.
when i hear their music it seems like they are trying to write these really deep lyrics, and sound like they are sooo into about whatever they are writing about, but it all ends up being so cliche and canned. and these guys are winning all of the mtv music awards. and it's not that i hate them for being successful. i wish some of the bands i really love could be more successful (heck i wish i could make millions by writing music). it just annoys me that they can be successful by writing all the same cliche garbage that a million other "punk" bands out there write.
Articulate... with no heinous spelling mistakes... Alex me thinks you switched to Firefox 2.0!
no, i am just a good speller i guess.
well thats a very good reason to dislike a band. i dont blame you. i guess i just dont feel very stongly about the "cliche" or "poppy" factor.
thank you for saying what i could not. I feel these people and the people who like boy bands and mindless pop (Enrique excepted) should be shot...
Enrique Iglesias?