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Originally Posted by +81
I don't care who likes or dislikes whatever but have those who have dismissed the hyped albums even given them a listen or are you just being anti-mainstream for the sake of it?
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I think this is a bit of a cop out of an argument.
I dislike things because I dislike them, not because they are popular.
Music changes all the time and so does the stuff that gets hyped by the media. It just so happens at the moment I hate probably 99% of the albums hyped by the mainstream indie media. Is it my fault they're hyping music I have no particular affinity for?
I don't see how it can be. A few years ago things might have been different, but if you think i'm going to endlessly listen to albums I find dull to justify having an opinion then think again. I've not heard the whole of the Grizzly Bear album, but I heard their last one and i've heard a few songs off this one and to be honest there was nothing in that stuff that suggested to me I was listening to anything mind blowingly amazing or original or even that great. I think that's enough to form an opinion on it without subjecting myself to the rest of it.
I just like what I like. I don't care how many other people listen to something. It matters not to me if one other person likes an album or 1 million other people like an album.
Life is far too short to waste time listening to something over & over again to please someone elses opinion of something.