Oh my fucking god I just wanted to say how otherworldly bad music is right now (pop has always been stupid to varying levels but oh my fucking god they have raised the stakes). I just listened to a bunch of pop tracks from various genres and I literally think I'm about to die. Rock, country, indie, folk, hipster white rap, whatever you call home, is aggressively bad. It's like Walmart made a gun that can shoot cum and blood and piss and shit and puke into your soul. We are so fucking fucked. I want to saw my own head off.
To stop being an elitist about music is probably the one thing that made me closer to inner peace and open to other humans
One day I realised that most of what I used to hate was what people who were less privileged than me enjoyed
Now I agree that there is a mentally destructive Kulturindustrie that robs the people of their popular musical practices by commodifying it.
But it's also important to realise that most traditional non-commodified music wasn't some advanced shit either and was very much looked down upon by the ruling classes before becoming cool and authentic
Same here. I work with the mentality that in every broad genre of music, there's going to be something someone likes. It just takes a bit of open minded exploration to find it
I used to absolutely be one of those prick
types who would say "I listen to everything but rap and country", make fun of those two genres etc, now country is one of my favourite genres and I've found my niche for rap as well