One of the most important things that you, as a musician, need to remember is that just because you don't like a piece of music then it doesn't necessarily follow that the piece of music isn't any good; it just isn't suited to your taste. It might be that the piece of music genuinely isn't very good, but you shouldn't allow your musical taste to make judgements over musical quality.
For example, you might think that <insert name of latest boy band here> suck like the proverbial Electrolux, but does that mean that their songs have no musical merit? Well, think about how many CD's they've sold this week, and how many hours of radio (and TV) airplay they've had and then ask yourself the same question. OK, so perhaps they're a bit on the commercial side, but wouldn't most musicians like to be selling shed-loads of albums and having thousands of fans screaming at them?
Originally posted by ~Wålshy~
One of the most important things that you, as a musician, need to remember is that just because you don't like a piece of music then it doesn't necessarily follow that the piece of music isn't any good; it just isn't suited to your taste. It might be that the piece of music genuinely isn't very good, but you shouldn't allow your musical taste to make judgements over musical quality.For example, you might think that <insert name of latest boy band here> suck like the proverbial Electrolux, but does that mean that their songs have no musical merit? Well, think about how many CD's they've sold this week, and how many hours of radio (and TV) airplay they've had and then ask yourself the same question. OK, so perhaps they're a bit on the commercial side, but wouldn't most musicians like to be selling shed-loads of albums and having thousands of fans screaming at them?
Not true. Some music is just shit.
How many of the following styles have you objectively listened to lately?
Style Sub-divisions
Classical Early, baroque, classical, romantic, modern/avantgarde
Jazz Traditional, big band, modern, fusion
Blues Blues, R'n'B, Soul
Country Country & Western, new country, bluegrass
Rock Rock, punk, metal, rock'n'roll, AOR
Pop Pop, Brit-pop, dance
and... folk? elevator music? world music? the list goes on...
Originally posted by ~Wålshy~
How many of the following styles have you objectively listened to lately?
Style Sub-divisions
Classical Early, baroque, classical, romantic, modern/avantgarde
Jazz Traditional, big band, modern, fusion
Blues Blues, R'n'B, Soul
Country Country & Western, new country, bluegrass
Rock Rock, punk, metal, rock'n'roll, AOR
Pop Pop, Brit-pop, dance
and... folk? elevator music? world music? the list goes on...
all of them