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Which genre has the most elitist fans?
Has to be hard rock/metal fans
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Elitist? Has to be Classical. Unless you meant a different term.
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From experience, I have to agree. Although people who prefer certain genres can be pretty ignorant towards other genres, but it has to be the rock, metal and "death metal" crowd who seem to hold their nose up to every other genre most.
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The 'must write your own songs and play your own instruments to be classed as a proper band' genre
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As a hard rock / metal fan myself I have to disagree, in fact it's usually the opposite. If you look at the recent "what is the worst type of music" thread, it's amazing how many people put "metal".
I often find that metal fans actually listen to more than one type of music and are quite open minded. |
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The 'must write your own songs and play your own instruments to be classed as a proper band' genre
![]() I'm pretty much fall within the category of "death/thrash/prog/doom/avantgarde metal elite" "hard rock elite" "blues, R&B elite" etc. And I'm damn proud of it as well ![]() ![]() I miss the time when musicianship and creativity had a lot of meaning.... 60's, 70's oh well... |
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I often find that metal fans actually listen to more than one type of music and are quite open minded. |
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yep, that's me as well
Got some 70's disco on at the moment
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I often find that metal fans actually listen to more than one type of music and are quite open minded.
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Indie.
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The 'must write your own songs and play your own instruments to be classed as a proper band' genre
I'm also a heavy metal/hard rock fan who also likes punk, classical, easy listening, indie and folk.
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Its got to be chavs, all they listen to is dance/rnb. If it doesnt have a girl with a helium voice or a black person rapping, they wont listen to it. Give them anything else, rock, indie, DM, classical, they will say its crap and not listen to it. Chavs are the worst by far
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I'm also a heavy metal/hard rock fan who also likes punk, classical, easy listening, indie and folk.I don't think anyone can doubt the musicianship or skill of top classical musicians, but very few write their own music, and that's because the ability to write good music and the ability to perform that music at the top possible level are different skills. Very few truly great singers sing only their own music, and very few of the truly great song-writers insist that only they get to perform them. At the very least, they'll be employing top session musicians to provide the accompanyment. It doesn't make sense that people can claim to care for musicality and skill on one hand, but on the other hand, want to exclude people who are very good at just one aspect in preference of people who are "fairly good" at more than one part. And why is it OK for one person in a band to be the good singer and another one to be the good song-writer, but it's not OK when the singer is a plain old singer and the songwriter is an independently employed songwriter?
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Has to be hard rock/metal fans
The amount of bile they have for bands they don't like is ridiculous too, and the ampunt of bands who they classify as 'posers' is astronomical. I heard one black metal fan refer to Iron Maiden as 'mainstream sell-outs.' I mean- honestly! To be fair though, this isn't general metal fans. This is the die-hard fans, and the people who are allergic to any music that doesn't fit their pre-determined favourite subgenre. |
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i would say classical, but can see why some people think metal.
a lot of metal fans i know absolutely hate anything which is pop or rnb or whatever. i'm sure some are pretty open-minded, but not many that i know. |
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Took the words out of my mouth! Well, almost. Rock fans aren't bad, and neither are metal fans. Fans of one particular genre of metal can be, though. I mean, go to the comments page below the video of any death/black metal band on Youtube. Nowhere else will you see people get so wound up over which sub-subgenre a particular band fits in, and nowhere else does it seem to matter so much.
The amount of bile they have for bands they don't like is ridiculous too, and the ampunt of bands who they classify as 'posers' is astronomical. I heard one black metal fan refer to Iron Maiden as 'mainstream sell-outs.' I mean- honestly! To be fair though, this isn't general metal fans. This is the die-hard fans. The people who classify themselves as 'metalheads' and turn it into a lifestyle. The people who are allergic to any music that doesn't fit their pre-determined favourite subgenre. 2. Don't generalise true metalheads. I was like that for ~10 years ( I mean the image, lifestyle etc) and most of my friends was/still is and most of us is very open minded people for different music - but ONE thing is certain - we don't like when music is made for the money, when is made for the wrong reasons - and it's not that hard to figure it out when the artists/bands start to create music to earn $$$ or to be more popular. |
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[quote=Mojo Pin;33004947] Quote:
2. Don't generalise true metalheads. I was like that for ~10 years ( I mean the image, lifestyle etc) and most of my friends was/still is and most of us is very open minded people for different music - but ONE thing is certain - we don't like when music is made for the money, when is made for the wrong reasons - and it's not that hard to figure it out when the artists/bands start to create music to earn $$$ or to be more popular.
Sorry- I think YouTube's jaded my view. To be honest though, most of the really elitish snobbery I've seen has come from metalheads. You're quite right to say that they aren't all like that, though. I never thought they were.I'll edit my post. |
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i would say classical, but can see why some people think metal.
a lot of metal fans i know absolutely hate anything which is pop or rnb or whatever. i'm sure some are pretty open-minded, but not many that i know. I dont listen to pop/rnb because it bores me to death, I dont feel anything when I hear it. It's simple as that. |
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About what proportion of classical musicians play their own songs?
I don't think anyone can doubt the musicianship or skill of top classical musicians, but very few write their own music, and that's because the ability to write good music and the ability to perform that music at the top possible level are different skills. Very few truly great singers sing only their own music, and very few of the truly great song-writers insist that only they get to perform them. At the very least, they'll be employing top session musicians to provide the accompanyment. It doesn't make sense that people can claim to care for musicality and skill on one hand, but on the other hand, want to exclude people who are very good at just one aspect in preference of people who are "fairly good" at more than one part. And why is it OK for one person in a band to be the good singer and another one to be the good song-writer, but it's not OK when the singer is a plain old singer and the songwriter is an independently employed songwriter? ![]() |
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Elitist fans~Prog.
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Sorry- I think YouTube's jaded my view. To be honest though, most of the really elitish snobbery I've seen has come from metalheads. You're quite right to say that they aren't all like that, though. I never thought they were. I'll edit my post. I think that most of them are just teenage kids who just don't know a history of rock, don't care about the past etc. And don't listen properly...
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Has to be hard rock/metal fans
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Jazz or Progressive Rock. Don't even go there.
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