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Originally Posted by peter12
Bull****. So let's just chuck Britney Spears up along with Mozart and Bach? There is a talent standard, people don't have to like my kind of music... but they should like good music.
Sweet lord there are about 50 bands in the mainstream and I can safely say they all suck... or almost all of them.
Edit: Hakan has got it down. The whole point of music "snobbery" as some put it, is to explore different genres of music. Nickelback et al are easy listening clone crap that doesn't require any effort on the part of the consumer to actually find good stuff.
By the way, anyone who was at the New Pornographers last night at Mac Hall, how did you find it? AC Newman and all can sure play but MacEwan techs seemed to be having some serious trouble with just about everything from the lights to sounds.
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Bull**** yourself.
There is a talent standard? Maybe for you and for other people but not for everyone. A lot of people loved and still love the Sex Pistols but they did not have a whole lot of talent now did they?
What is putting Britney Spears up against Bach or Mozart exactly intended to prove? A lot of people prefer Bach or Mozart to Britney Spears, and a lot of people prefer Britney Spears to Bach or Mozart. Notwithstanding that you can't compare them at all because the styles of music are so radically different, I'm not exactly sure how you are imputing a talent standard into this comparison. Bach and Mozart are certainly better at what they did (write music) than Britney Spears, but I've never heard Bach or Mozart sing (which is what Britney does), so I can't actually determine who has more talent. But the point is moot, since you have failed to prove that talent = objective quality of music.
There are 50 bands in the mainstream that you can safely say almost all of them suck. In your opinion.
As for snobbery, I don't see a point at all. If someone has explored all genres of music and still determined Nickelback is their favourite band it is not my place to fault them. That is their personal taste, and I'm not about to tell them what to think.
That you don't see anything wrong in so cocksurely imposing your own personal values on someone else in something so subjective as art is curious, if not troubling.