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Originally Posted by Boozinbloozin
I often hear the term mainstream reffered to in a negative manner. Whats the issue from others perspectives as to why it doesnt measure to up to whats considered nonmainstream? Do people automaticly assume it lacks in a certain area that non mainstream music does? Maybe somebody can shed some light on this for me.
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I think there are two major points here. The first one is that mainstream music is a very tiny fraction of the music that's out there, which means that a person who only listens to mainstream stuff almost by definition has fairly limited musical tastes. The second thing is that mainstream music is often, though certainly not always, lowest common denominator music. That makes it popular but it also makes it boring to people who are more heavily into music than the average person.