Writer's Block: Too mainstream
Jul. 13th, 2010 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I wish I could say this is a stupid question, but I know so many people who do this and it's the most pretentious thing ever.
My response to the belief that mainstream = terrible is: Sometimes there is a reason many people like something. I mean, why do you think chocolate is popular? BECAUSE IT'S GOOD.
And in this case, at first you even admitted it!
The only time I sympathize with this sort of opinion-changing is in the situation where you liked a band, they got popular, and changed their sound-- and you don't like the new sound and stop listening to their albums. However, even then I don't understand why you would need to remove all their old music from your ipod and pretend like you never even liked them in the first place, like many people tend to do. If you liked it, you liked it. The music itself didn't change, only you. (In the form of you turning into an arrogant asshole).
Why can't you just be proud you recognized a good band before everyone else did? And, especially considering you once liked them, why would begrudge them their success? Are bands supposed to self-sabotage, purposely keep themselves living on the fringes with no security to their income? Is that really the only way to produce "real" music? It seems selfish and even sadistic for you, the fan, to ask that of them when it's not your life.
I wish I could say this is a stupid question, but I know so many people who do this and it's the most pretentious thing ever.
My response to the belief that mainstream = terrible is: Sometimes there is a reason many people like something. I mean, why do you think chocolate is popular? BECAUSE IT'S GOOD.
And in this case, at first you even admitted it!
The only time I sympathize with this sort of opinion-changing is in the situation where you liked a band, they got popular, and changed their sound-- and you don't like the new sound and stop listening to their albums. However, even then I don't understand why you would need to remove all their old music from your ipod and pretend like you never even liked them in the first place, like many people tend to do. If you liked it, you liked it. The music itself didn't change, only you. (In the form of you turning into an arrogant asshole).
Why can't you just be proud you recognized a good band before everyone else did? And, especially considering you once liked them, why would begrudge them their success? Are bands supposed to self-sabotage, purposely keep themselves living on the fringes with no security to their income? Is that really the only way to produce "real" music? It seems selfish and even sadistic for you, the fan, to ask that of them when it's not your life.
