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Originally Posted by guccilvr
I'm a music snob.. so what?
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Sorry:
This makes me so mad. Not because of what you said, but the situation it was used. And it's not your fault.
Liking art, good art, GREAT art, does not make you a snob. Art and elitist culture are not the same.
Art is worth exploring. Art is worth loving. We, every artist - whether they are Chefs, or Abstract Painters, or Musicians, or whatever -, work the wounds of our life in a display of intense and often incredibly unhealthy honesty for the hopes of creating a message or an image or a text that will speak. That speaks. We do it because it's all we can do. It's all we have. And it kills us but it's what we love so we do it. We have no choice but to do it.
People like Nickelback are lacking. That sounds elitist but it's true of everything else, EVER, so why can't it be true of art. There are world class surgeons, and run of the mill surgeons. Art's subjectivity doesn't mean there is no bad or good. You can fail. And it happens in the attempt. If you half attempt something, it will stink of it, and Nickelback stinks.
Art, for me, is about honesty - not spectacle. And I can't live in a world that thinks honesty is worth laughing off, or rolling our eyes at; I can't.
Do you know what's really upsetting? It's like comparing a completely spontaneous incendiary blues guitar solo with the game Rock Band. It's like comparing a soap opera to a performance of Hamlet. They aren't the same. Sure, they are churning out (churning out being the key phrase) text and music and visuals but they just used the "rock" template and drew a line around it and called it Music.
I'm not anti-pop, but I'm anti-lazy fucking "rock stars". They are a blemish on our profession.
Anyone who wants to argue, I want you to think of one person in the field you have chosen; that person who is at the top but you know is terrible. The one everyone supports and you feel like yelling "am I on crazy pills or something!?" The one that gets the promotion over you and they are jerk offs but all you can do is sit around and talk about it. Everyone will agree and say "yes, of course you should get it" but as soon as you leave they all say "whiner. grow up." Now say it's a life passion. Say it's something you need to do with your life. Now drown. Take thirty years of your life drowning in this impossible fucking mess of attitude. Not fact, but perception. Lazy fucking perception.
/rage blackout
Listen Nickelback, Theory of a Deadman, Our Lady Peace, 3 Doors Down, David Usher, etc fans. You can love that. You can celebrate it. But don't call it something it's not. Call a spade a spade. And then realize there is more out there. So much more.
/plea and threadjack