Dear people who follow every single fad that comes
and goes as though it is on the same level of the Beatles, learn something.
Fad haters: In my opinion someone who hates something just
because everyone else loves it is just as bad as someone loving
something because everyone else loves it .It’s like some sort of
anti-fad coalition of wannabe hipsters.
If your knowledge of music is soooo much more enlightened than everyone
else’s, good for you; now shut up about it because you’re the only person who
cares. Why can’t people just enjoy
whatever music makes them happy? If someone started ripping you apart because
of your musical taste you’d defend yourself by saying something along the lines
of: “It just speaks to me, I really relate to the music”. That is a great
response to being questioned about musical taste, so why not let other people
use it too? We are human beings; our ideas of what talent is, or what speaks to
us, or what is deep is always going to be different. Just because a certain
musician has way more fans, sounds a little more pop-y for your liking, doesn’t
make them bad. It just means that there are that many more people with the same
values no matter how different yours may be.
Liking un-popular music doesn’t make you better than anyone else; it
just makes you human for having an opinion on something. Another thing that bugs me is people who are
afraid to like popular music because it’s popular and they don’t want to
disappoint their fad-hating friends by having the same taste as “the mindless,
pop-loving drones” that have taken over.
Don’t get me wrong - I don’t like most fads. I just
like to keep that to myself because I know that every fad will fizzle out as
fast as it started. Something new always
comes along. This brings me to fad-lovers.
You do realize these pop-artists are just robots without feelings created by
men in suits to make them a ton of money right? Seriously though, boy bands and pop-artists like The Jonas
Bros, One Direction, Carly Rae Jepsen,
Lady Gaga, and everyone’s favorite man J-Biebs are all just serving
their labels. Look up Lady Gaga before
she was famous. She dressed normal, used her vocals, and sounded really good. By saying this I’m not saying I hate all of these artists.
In fact, there is rarely an artist out there that I can’t listen to at
least one song by them and enjoy it. I am just saying take fads for what they are; they will
always fizzle and burn just in time for something new to come in and
fill their niche.
The above being said I don't expect to change anyone's mind about all of this, I’m just offering my opinion. Music is a really beautiful thing and it
keeps a lot of us from going insane. So
go listen to whatever music makes you happy; just don’t shove it down everyone
else’s throats.