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Originally Posted by flameswin
This is what usually turns me off of music debates. I love music, always have, play many instruments. I always think music debates will be interesting and exciting, but it seems too often that statement gets made and just makes the discussion/debate stupid.
Music is subjective, more so than almost anything on earth. And while many aspects of music are quantifiable in some ways, it just annoys the hell out of me that you almost always end up seeing "If you believe/don't believe X then you don't understand music", in every debate.
That's a checkout comment for me, every time. Music smugness, bleh!
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Great post. Out of thanks today, thanks to the sexism debate. Maybe I'll remember to come by tomorrow and thank you.
But maybe I wont, lol.
And yeah, if people wanna call him a genius, then fine. I disagree and have argued why, pretty well I think. But as I said, it's art, and we can disagree, and that doesn't bug me at all.
It's the degradation of the debate to, 'well then, you just don't get it/understand it/are smart about it,' that's not that fun.
Regarding SCD's comment about two rock songs hitting number #1 since 2001, I find that very hard to believe. But I do believe it, you're not the type of poster to say something like that without being able to back it up. I just mean, it's very shocking to me and while I did understand the trends and reasons behind it before, the fact that's it's only two is very surprising to me.