My biggest pet peeve is when people like "music" that is plain and simply just noise just to be non comformists, so they can go and find other non conformists and conform with them(death metal) and then go hate on other groups of people who like "music" that is just noise(screamo/emo/grindcore stuff).
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I hope its just a fad and they grow up and start listening to what they ACTUALLY like, not liking something just because its "br00tal"
I'm not telling them to like what I like. I'm just saying they should listen to music for the real reasons.
I agree with a lot of this. Not specifically death metal, but there are plenty of people out there (and even a couple around here) that act like this. If you listen to anything that is played on the radio as opposed to some "underground" shit that only 24 people on earth have ever listened to, you are a sellout and don't know shit about that specific genre. Personally, I say FU to anyone with that mentality. (and if you want to say it back, feel free).
But LXA has a point here about the whole unconformity thing. Listening to and following anything they personally view as 'non-conform' is ok, but when and if that artist or band starts seeing a rise in popularity, suddenly this group of elitist snobs considers them to be sellouts and even will go so far as to talk about them in the past tense as if something the band/artist is doing now isn't worthy of even recognizing.
It's one thing to not like an entire genre of music. NO one can tell you what you should or shouldn't listen to, what you should or shouldn't like, who and how you support this artist or the next. My problem is with being an elitist snob about it. Hip Hop could be a good
example of this. There's mainstream hip hop, average stuff out there that die-hard fans like and enjoy, then there's this "underground" scene. If someone like myself rips on hip-hop in general, we are told we don't know shit about hip-hop and "real" hip hop is the underground stuff, NOT what everyone knows or has heard. when/if one of those "underground" artists suddenly gets a big break, starts making money, selling albums, concerts, whatever... they are the big "sellout" and suddenly seem to be shunned by the elitist snob fans. It's their right to have that opinion, but don't expect me to take you or your opinion seriously when you act like that. JM2CW, take it for what it's worth.