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Originally Posted by Xenith
So what I'm asking is that is there such a thing as a collective barometer for "good" and "bad" music and artists? If so then what is that barometer based on?
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Yes. The barometer is personal taste.
If you're recognizing that certain groups tend to be placed in 'good' or 'bad' camps based on popular opinion you're really just noticing trends in the social hive mind for lack of better terms.
Different demographics are going to recognize different elements of the final creation in order to determine a relative worth. It's not so much a matter of celebrating stupidity so much as, if you grow up in a less than awesome area with little to no chance at higher education and you hear some dude busting out a deluge of verbose prose to accentuate their social soliloquies, you're gonna roll you're eyes until you're seeing behind you.
Like it or not, good / bad IS relative to the individual and entirely subjective to their personal views and morals regarding whatever is being judged by their mind in the moment.