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Originally Posted by TheBig3
I use to consume a gross amount of music. But I realized trying to find new stuff, listening to the most cutting edge **** - it was a lot of effort for not a lot of payoff. I like what I like, I poke around music sites/creators/whatever enough to find new stuff.
But also, sometimes I feel like the "You just wouldn't understand it" crowd doesn't realize how weird and useless their group is. E.g. I was listening to some YouTube video the other day about "Whatever happened to MGMT" and the gist was, that big album from 2008 was them "making fun of pop songs" and now they make albums full of the music they like.
I'm sure there's a handful of music critics/snobs jerking off to it, saying "This sounds like the best combination of Spaceman 3 and Kraftwerk since [Insert some other art school reject here]" but no one gives a ****. They get to be grown-ups dressing like theater kids and having their own conversations and their own inside jokes that the rest of the world doesn't want to be in on. The rest of us don't need whatever currency they value.
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You assume that these fringe tastes relate to what other people think. My music taste is fringe compared to the average person, and if I cared about other people's opinions on it, my taste wouldn't be what it is. Because I am only too aware of what you're describing here, and it's not fun. Sure, the 'you wouldn't get it' attitude is a pointless gloat, but in my experience, people misinterpret many attitudes as something similar which are really an attempt at defending your own taste, because at best people are indifferent, but at worst they act hostile about 'weird' music. And being among other people with fringe tastes can be a relief, like this forum
Also, talking about usefulness in music or any other kind of art is not an approach I'm down with