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Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
Oh man...I never, EVER said taste is truth.
I already said I hate The Police...BUT I don't think they're crap. I'm not saying, have never said, or would ever say taste is objective (and I've told you this already). I'm NOT using my taste to measure good music!
YOU SHOULD be using your taste to measure what music is good TO YOU. If it's good to you, it's good to you. There is no set decision over what is good or bad. There is no music that is definitely good or bad regardless of WHAT you think. What you think is what it is to you, it doesn't matter how many agree or disagree, or WHO.
Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
The Police have all the qualities of a decent band, but they rub me the wrong way, they don't strike a chord with me, they don't turn my crank...I don't like them!!!
Yet somehow you claim they are a great band who make good music.
This is why you're a retard.
Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
But I realise I'm bigger than my likes and dislikes. I can see that they have TONS of redeemable musical qualities (unlike Brittney Spears), and I can just tell that they're not crap.
No, you're choosing to believe they aren't crap just because you feel that's what you should do. You don't like them, so it's stupid to say you think they make good music.
Saying "I don't like them, but I can see why people would." is fine, because that's suggesting that you can see what makes them likeable, despite not liking them. It's nothing objective.
Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
But still, a lot of you guys are at a point where you just say..."I don't like this band...they're crap."
I say that because if I don't like a band, they are crap to me. I don't say it like it's a fact because it's not. I deal with me and me alone, because it's all relative, all subjective. There is no definite quality.
Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
I say "they're crap" becasue I think they objectively are...r(egardless if I don't like them)...crap
But they're not. Nothing is objectively crap or good.
Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
Good music to me is objective. It's hard to jusge when it's The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones, but it's darn EASY and darn OBVIOUS when it's Aretha Franklin vs. Rheanna!!!
TO YOU it's objective because you're a moron, to people who know what the factual deal is, it's subjective. The truth isn't what should be, the truth is what is, and there IS no objective good or bad music.
Obvious, not factual.
Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
(And WHO CARES if you like Rheanna...you're WRONG).
You're wrong for liking Lily Allen, let's try that.
You are factually wrong for liking her. No, don't argue back, you just can't perceive correctly, and I've decided that you can't, and that you're too scared to admit she's objectively crap, so therefore you are wrong.
(How does that sound?)
-AC