Music Snobbery

Cosign, i gotta admit im not a major fan of things like pop music though e.g. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake or any of that, mainly because i find it really corny, sugarcoated and that their is no skill in it other than having an good voice and looking pretty, mainly because most of them artists don't write their own music and things like that, Whilst i have respect for genres like Rock, jazz, soul and hip hop because their is an element as skill and deepness invovled such as poetry, lyrics, instrument playing and self-expression.

I don't actually think my favourite songs are the best, but I think there are some that are just crap. Some people like songs that are off-key and have retarded lyrics. And they're not retarded in a funny way, they're just stupid. So, I can't help feeling that anyone who likes those songs are a bit stupid. After all, you can't consider something stupid to be intelligent unless you're actually stupider than that, right? Plus, music snobbery is fun. It's rather amusing to let people know that you scorn their favourite music enough to ignore them on that basis alone. =P

That was the problem I had with the music department at my college, they were a bunch of music snobs, so I left. Music should be expression and it should be what you want it to be.

When you get right down to it, everyone is a music snob. You have to be, because you must think that the music you like is great or you wouldn't like it. Everyone thinks they have good taste in music, even if their tastes are totally different from everyone they know. Even if you like music from many different genres, there are some genres you don't care for, or artists within genres that you don't care for but are still popular with others. You think your choices are best because they are based on your taste, and others like theirs best and disdain yours. The greatest thing is to share music, music you like, even if it isn't popular, well-known or liked. Get someone else to lend an ear and introduce them to something you enjoy. Have an open ear when they do the same. It's a good thing we don't all have the same taste in music, some musicians wouldn't make a living. It's okay to like your music best, as long as you expose yourself to lots of music and don't box yourself into only one kind of music.

I definately love country music above anything else, although I'm not too fond of some of the older style country with pick strum and everything. Probably because I was brought up listening to country and I write country songs myself. Having said that, I also love many others styles. Don't care much for grouping them. Just whatever sounds good. I usually don't appreciate the lyrics until I've heard the song a few times. I particularly like unique sounds, acoustic, african, even hillbilly and bluegrass. Anything really

I used to be a music snob, because I was only brought up listening to a little bit of music, the types that my parents and brother liked. It wasn't so much that I didn't enjoy other music, as that I didn't know any, and I always felt silly when people were talking about music. Since I've been using the internet, and made more friends, i've gotten much more interested in music and new genres, artists etc.