With so much shallow bad 'pop' around here is a truly beautiful song, check it out

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nate1970

22-12-2009

Originally Posted by MRowan:
“I despair for our current generation of teenagers if they like this stuff, instead of real music like (just for example & off the top of my head) Mozart, Rachmaninov, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Enya, Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval, various real blues artists and so on, get the picture??”

But in the early 60s, there were old duffers going "I despair for our current generation of teenagers if they like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, instead of real music...".

There is NO SUCH THING as 'real' and 'not real' music - it's all just music.

MRowan

23-12-2009

Originally Posted by WelshieRachel:
“Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad and talentless, or any less "real" than any other music. I'm 19 and I love Girls Aloud and other pop acts like Lady Gaga and Little Boots, but I also love Rammstein, Pink Floyd,Metallica, REM,Kate Bush, Guns N Roses and Velvet Revolver, so why is it necessary to dismiss someone's tastes and insult them based on them liking one act that you don't? I'd be very surprised to find any music fan whose entire collection was built on one single genre.

Nobody can dictate to others what is good music and what isn't because the wonderful thing is, it's completely subjective! I don't happen to like some of the acts you listed either, but I won't call you a sad idiot for liking them and tell you I despair of your generation like you have for us pop lovers, because I recognise that people can like different things and that just because I don't like something, that doesn't make it terrible.”

Some good points welshie, it's not a question of 'dictating' to others, it's just a question of objecting to mindless talentless drivel that is so shallow and empty, so devoid of any substance, so plastic etc........

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