I'm generally a type of person that likes a lot of music styles and genres. My favorite happens to be most (if no all) variations of metal. It's been a constant in my life, it's gotten me through the sad, the happy, and the in-between times, and the metal-head subculture is one that I'm proud to be part of.
However, my tastes go beyond that of just metal. I love acoustic, jazz (of all kinds), latin music (anything from salsa to bossa nova), classical, blues, rap, hip-hop, older r&b, electronica, techno, pop, punk, rock n' roll, country, bluegrass, classic rock, and all other forms of rock you could shake a stick at.
But I'm not into some of today's R&B, Dubstep, Screamo, Country, and Pop artists, who so many others say are really good. I respectfully disagree and say that I really can't buy into some of these artists for a vast amount of reasons that I could probably go into depth about with each artist, though I'll start out with the easier one for me to express.
My general feelings on dubstep is that it's not layered enough and I tend to get too much of one constant thing. For me, dubstep seems like the bastard child of Nu-Metal and Drone Metal that also fused some techno elements in there as well. I don't mind some dubstep if there is other musical instrumentation going on as well, but for it to solely have just the dubstep element as the actual song seems a bit too dry for my palette.
I get that it's supposed to be this immersive music that you're supposed to experience in more of a euphoric, "free your mind" kind of way. But regular techno, nu-metal, and other genres do just that 10 times better for me than dubstep does on its own.
Another thing that's a little bit easier for me to explain my general distaste for is for the country I've heard in the past decade. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with your typical Garth Brooks country boy or your Jimmy Buffet, but there is a general theme that I do hate about Country.
That thing is that it's generally turned into some horrible transformation of the Carter-style country that has almost a 'pop music theme' sheen to it. By that, I mean most of the music is just about relationships and relationship problems. Now, every genre has this to an extent, but when your basic lyrical content becomes how a boy caused you problems and the music in the background just becomes a series of sad, slow chord progressions, that's when it's become an abomination in my eyes.
But I couldn't express all of this without someone trying to say that I was just overly biased or that I wasn't "open-minded" enough to appreciate the music. To which I give a quick, curt flit of my middle finger and kindly express how they should kiss my ass.
I'm a musician and someone who has always had many genres of music prevalent in my life. For someone to imply that I'm not open-minded enough to enjoy a certain type of music or that my opinion is worthless because I don't happen to agree with the other person is just insulting and infuriating to me.
I could go on with multiple examples, genres/subgenres, and arguments, but am I in the wrong and I'm just a little too closed-minded to really appreciate certain artists/genres of today? Or is it them being overly defensive about their music and assuming I'm personally trying to dismantle it as a form of music.
However, my tastes go beyond that of just metal. I love acoustic, jazz (of all kinds), latin music (anything from salsa to bossa nova), classical, blues, rap, hip-hop, older r&b, electronica, techno, pop, punk, rock n' roll, country, bluegrass, classic rock, and all other forms of rock you could shake a stick at.
But I'm not into some of today's R&B, Dubstep, Screamo, Country, and Pop artists, who so many others say are really good. I respectfully disagree and say that I really can't buy into some of these artists for a vast amount of reasons that I could probably go into depth about with each artist, though I'll start out with the easier one for me to express.
My general feelings on dubstep is that it's not layered enough and I tend to get too much of one constant thing. For me, dubstep seems like the bastard child of Nu-Metal and Drone Metal that also fused some techno elements in there as well. I don't mind some dubstep if there is other musical instrumentation going on as well, but for it to solely have just the dubstep element as the actual song seems a bit too dry for my palette.
I get that it's supposed to be this immersive music that you're supposed to experience in more of a euphoric, "free your mind" kind of way. But regular techno, nu-metal, and other genres do just that 10 times better for me than dubstep does on its own.
Another thing that's a little bit easier for me to explain my general distaste for is for the country I've heard in the past decade. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with your typical Garth Brooks country boy or your Jimmy Buffet, but there is a general theme that I do hate about Country.
That thing is that it's generally turned into some horrible transformation of the Carter-style country that has almost a 'pop music theme' sheen to it. By that, I mean most of the music is just about relationships and relationship problems. Now, every genre has this to an extent, but when your basic lyrical content becomes how a boy caused you problems and the music in the background just becomes a series of sad, slow chord progressions, that's when it's become an abomination in my eyes.
But I couldn't express all of this without someone trying to say that I was just overly biased or that I wasn't "open-minded" enough to appreciate the music. To which I give a quick, curt flit of my middle finger and kindly express how they should kiss my ass.
I'm a musician and someone who has always had many genres of music prevalent in my life. For someone to imply that I'm not open-minded enough to enjoy a certain type of music or that my opinion is worthless because I don't happen to agree with the other person is just insulting and infuriating to me.
I could go on with multiple examples, genres/subgenres, and arguments, but am I in the wrong and I'm just a little too closed-minded to really appreciate certain artists/genres of today? Or is it them being overly defensive about their music and assuming I'm personally trying to dismantle it as a form of music.
