gamers are no different than non-gamers when it comes to taste in music. although the gamers are more likely to favor video game music for obvious reasons.
Gamers have terrible taste in music.
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next time this stereotype comes up, introduce the person to the legend of zelda ocarina of time soundtrack. if they don't like it, then they have terrible taste in music.
Technical doesn't necessarily equal good, though.Nautical Honors Society said:
You can play arpeggios and scales for ten minutes and get some people to call you epic. I'd rather have some Hendrix than Dragonforce, though. Even if Hendrix is considered more technically "simplistic." Or Queen, since Brian May knew not only when to shred, but when not to.
Anyway, considering most of my gamer friends are Japanophiles who would buy that Frog Song if it was done by Japanese lolis, I have trouble arguing the stereotype is completely baseless. Not that Japanese music is bad, but buying bad songs because they're Japanese is bad taste.
I think I have way better taste than my other friends. Simply because all they listen to is dubstep.
I don't see gamers' taste in music differing all that much from most people, who are pretty eclectic anyway. I guess gamers are more likely to like game sound track music? I like quite a lot of that, so I'd see that as good taste anyway.
Not that it really matters, taste in music is about as frickin' subjective as it gets.
Not that it really matters, taste in music is about as frickin' subjective as it gets.
Most people on this site listen to metal and/or jpop/anime songs. (Weird combination, but whatever).
I don't like (read: absolutely despise) either genre very much , but to each their own.
I don't like (read: absolutely despise) either genre very much , but to each their own.
Yes, but that doesn't effect whether it's enjoyable or not enjoyable to certain people.Nautical Honors Society said:
It's not possible to have terrible taste in music, because if it exists, that means someone likes it, and that validates its existence.
Damn it's refreshing hearing someone acknowledge dubstep without saying it's amazing xDSL33TBL1ND said:
Dubstep to me is just like "Electro for dummies", a popularized introduction into electronic music.
I think this because it's often a persons first deviation from their first genre be it metal or rap. And then you get idiots on Youtube calling everything that isn't metal or rap "dubstep". Hell I saw someone refer to a chiptune as dubstep the other day.
Please listen to the following and tell me if I have bad taste in music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujzp9ffPwPM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVWdQGuE0-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcrDWAuyqtc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujzp9ffPwPM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVWdQGuE0-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcrDWAuyqtc
You keep saying this but provide no links/proof. I feel like you're making it up for the sake of 'discussion'.Nautical Honors Society said:
Also, in response to your post that was a post below this one. No just because something sells well, doesn't make it bad. But some really shitty music can sell really well. See: Train. That group is an abomination. In every sense of the word, but they are/were/hell I don't know, stupid popular.
How... does being a gamer have any effect on your taste of music.
That's sort of like saying, "people who eat cheetos don't know what a good movie is"
What idiot started this stereotype?
That's sort of like saying, "people who eat cheetos don't know what a good movie is"
What idiot started this stereotype?
Right I read that, and I was never implying that you did agree with them. It's just for the discussion value of the thread we need a little more than being told there are people who think gamers have a bad taste in music. Without it your OP is really not much more than an inner musing which you seem to have already resolved for yourself.Nautical Honors Society said:
The phrase "bad taste in music" is kinda vague and a really subjective one. If you want us to discuss at length what we think of that then we need to know what the opposing side of the argument considers "bad taste in music". Even some links to the music communities you're talking about would be helpful as it would at least allow us to infer what they might mean by it.
Yeah, and even when I show them some New Wave to try and broaden their horizons they just laugh at me and go listen to Skrillex. It's quite frustrating.Dexiro said:
I'd say that "gamers" now cover such a broad spectrum of the population, can't we say that their taste in music is just as eclectic as non gamers?
I listen to Hugh Laurie's Blues.
I listen to Melodic Death Metal.
I listen to Classical (usually video game/film OSTs).
That is just me, ONE person.
Besides, as already stated, taste is subjective, but in terms of listening to what is critically deemed "good" - I'd say the answer is just as true, christ I listen to Rush (critically acclaimed) as well as... less critically acclaimed bands. (Looking at YOU Dragonforce.)
I listen to Hugh Laurie's Blues.
I listen to Melodic Death Metal.
I listen to Classical (usually video game/film OSTs).
That is just me, ONE person.
Besides, as already stated, taste is subjective, but in terms of listening to what is critically deemed "good" - I'd say the answer is just as true, christ I listen to Rush (critically acclaimed) as well as... less critically acclaimed bands. (Looking at YOU Dragonforce.)
No, it's not true. It's entirely dependent on the individual, rather than the entire group as a whole.