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Science did a study that found whatever music we listen to while our brains are still growing we will have an emotional connection to for life.
Your passion is the same thing boomers have for the Beatles or whatever.
About six months ago I found my college laptop with all my old pirated music on it. I gave one of my old playlists a listen and legitimately started crying to 21 guns because I was just overcome with emotion lmao
What happens if all you listened to was SoundCloud wubs that don't exist anymore? Are you free?
i think its valid for me to be embarassed by all the david guetta shit I listened to as a teen tbh
Information age of hysteria
It's going out to idiot AmericaI think for a couple of years in my late teens/early 20s when I cared more about tone than content for some dumb reason. In my defense if there's any ideology that gets pushed to you in university is that the worst thing you can do is ever act "unprofessional".
that makes a lot of sense. I was thinking more of "uncool" embarrassment, but conservative cultural pressure is obviously a lot more pervasive
Dude Toxicity is actually amazing, I didn't even listen to it when I was younger but I do now. SOAD is a very good band. RATM is pretty good too, albeit not always.
They each have at least member with decent politics too.
Morello and Serj Tankian of System of a Down are the co-founders of Axis of Justice, a political group whose declared purpose is "to bring together musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice together." They "aim to build a bridge between fans of music around the world and local political organizations to effectively organize around issues of peace, human rights, and economic justice."[77] The group has worked for such causes as immigrant rights and death-penalty abolition. Its recommended book list includes such authors as Karl Marx, Che Guevara, George Orwell, Noam Chomsky, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Grant Morrison.[78]
It's ok to like bad things. Accept they are bad and just like them anyway. I like junk food sometimes too but I still know it's bad. Also I don't want 3 michelin star cuisine every day either, just like I don't want to watch hyper intellectual movies all the time.
Liking garbage is fine.
yeah def some kinda problematic lyrics, but overall just pure great energy.
I feel so bad that she went through what she went through..
One of the best moments I remember having was when I was in a shitty local McDonald's late at night and I Want It That Way started playing.
It was great because most people who were around were just kind of lowkey having that shit moment when you know you're eating garbage because you're too tired or depressed, and then this absolute banger from the 90's starts playing in the background and all of a sudden we all had a quiet shared moment where we were taken back to simpler times when we were teenagers too embarrassed to admit that this song was actually really good.
Nobody said anything, but I could feel this shared moment, this energy where everybody was just kind of throwing knowing looks around, half-smiling, as if we were all saying to each other "damn, this song was actually really good after all, wasn't it?" I can't quite explain, but I felt a weirdly deep connection to everybody who was there, at that particular moment in time. It's like if spontaneity weren't so taboo, if we weren't always meant to mind our own respective businesses, everybody would probably start singing that song together, because it meant something different to each one of us, but we all had something to say about it.
It's weird that one of my favorite moments ever was inside a fucking McDonald's of all places, but I had never experienced such a shared moment with total strangers, and haven't ever since. "Lightning in a bottle" moment, for sure.
yeah I got some weird nostalgia for songs I liked but wasn't really into back in the day. I wonder what the boomermification of milliniels will be :thinkin-lenin:
smiling like a goddamn idiot reading your comment, and in a mcdonalds to top it off :comfy:
I will never be embarrassed for my absolute favorite album since i was 14
I saw blink 182 get booed off stage once. Greenday had to come back on to get everyone to calm down
Boooo stop trying to rationalize your embarrassment and guilt. Guilt is sometimes good. You should feel guilty if you enjoy American Idiot, I'm sorry comrade (plus I'd argue that this is where your enjoyment truly originates anyways- it's precisely because you had to feel guilty about it that you actually developed such a strong libidinal attachment to it). Feeling good about private consumption should not be a prerogative for our use of public reason. I like shit that's bad and that I feel guilty consuming. This doesn't mean I should work to have it inscribed in the annals of public discourse that Walking on the Sun is truly a good song nor do I need further reinforcement when it comes to my godawful taste in food - I deserve no recognition for maintaining the pallet and diversity in consumption of a perpetually stoned and broke 20 year old. I'm an unexceptional human who has good and bad tastes, but the great thing about being a communist is that you can still be critical while being unexceptional.
Bad take. Taste is subjective and you shouldn't feel guilty for having different taste. You especially shouldn't try to make strangers feel guilty for having different taste. The exception, of course, is shit with bad politics.
You can also criticize things for being low quality, and you don't need to feel guilty for liking things that aren't, like, high art. I enjoy being critical of the things that I like and other media I consume, but I don't feel an ounce of guilt about watching or reading or listening to anything that I then go "that was god, but it would've been better if x, y, and z".
But "bad politics" doesn't apply to American Idiot, which is an Iraq War protest album. It's musically good for its genre and actually helped to kick off the pop-punk wave of the mid 00s.
Why do you want OP to feel guilty for liking it?
Why do you want OP to feel guilty for liking it?
Honestly I actually believe they will enjoy it more if I do, that's kinda my point. It's an obvious attempt to rationalize a guilty pleasure, a public appeal to absolve the guiltiness so as to keep just the pleasure. The issue is that this avoids the traumatic fact for any moment of enjoyment - that the pleasure is itself grounded in the repression of guilt. To my mind, that OP feels insecure and seeks validation for these specific points of enjoyment is merely evidence that they should hold on to that feeling whenever listening, lest they want to be incessantly confronted face to face with the subjective void of aesthetic judgement when trying to affirm their own position. I was just stoned and wanted to be an annoying little psychoanalytic shit. Y'all don't appreciate the importance of negativity enough, it's not like my dissing Green Day is traumatic
Also I would like to say "that was good, but it would better if x,y,z" is not really a critical position. A critical position is more like, "I can see they tried to do/say/represent X but they actually ended up doing Y and saying Z".
Also I will never like 00s pop punk and will continue to hopelessly struggle against it, citing the relativity of subjective music tastes will do little to dissuade me!
