A talk about the tendency for old people to be closed-minded towards new music, sometimes in ways that are racist.
skip to 0:46 to avoid the product promotion.
A talk about the tendency for old people to be closed-minded towards new music, sometimes in ways that are racist.
skip to 0:46 to avoid the product promotion.
You don't have to like every artist. I don't like Eminem and I do listen to a lot of hip hop. Fantano doesn't like every new music either. His job is listening to new music and telling people which music he likes and doesn't like.
The message of the video is that you should be open-minded to new experiences (because you might like a new artist, album, song) and that you shouldn't reject music based on being unfamiliar with the sound.
Fantano also mentions that some people reject certain types of music because of prejudices that they have. As example, Ben Sharpiro puts out a video every couple weeks saying that hip hop is not real music because Ben Sharpiro is racist. Hip hop music is heavily influenced by black artists and black culture. Ben Sharpiro frequently says that hip hop is not music as a way to dogwhistle his racism.
shapiro couches this in asserting there are sufficient/necessary conditions of music, and then claiming that hip-hop/rap fails to meet these conditions. like, even if we accept his essentialist sort of premise, the contention that hip-hop doesn't make use of "rhythm" or "melody" is patently, obviously absurd on the most cursory examination of any track.
just an absolutely insufferable little freak.
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