Do you know people who take 'their music' way too seriously

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Engage

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I dunno, hate to whine like an old sour rag, but have you ever met someone who uses their knowledge of music to belittle others and otherwise elevate their own puffed up ego? As if, you know, they actually had ANYTHING AT ALL to do with creating the music or that the musicians even know they exist!

Say you dislike one of 'their' songs and you've bought yourself a blood rival for life.
Show them a new genre and they go out of their way next week to prove they know more about the lead singers sock fetish than you.

It seems to be younger peeps online.
No offense, younger guys (and girls, that this doesn't apply to) just an observation.
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Speaking as someone who has been collecting music for well on 25+ years, it just makes sharing music that much less appealing to me, thinking of a good, rare jam I know...being used in some young arrogant prick's arssanal later on down the road to bash someone over the head with.

Yet, I feel like I'm being ...I dunno...something. Stupid? Greedy with my meager info?
Possessive of that very music that I myself do not own? I'm a little confused about it all.

Internet Hive Mind, please show me the errors of my ways...or whatever...
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Oh, you mean like how Music & DJ's was on Bluelight from circa 2000-2004? ;)

I like your approach though. It is one of those things that simultaneously pisses you off and also makes you feel like a bit of a hypocrite.. because then there's the other side of it too. You spend hundreds of listening hours honing into the freshest minted and illest tracks, and when you go through the process of separating the wheat from the chaff, and are left with some polished gems to share, people just ignore you and listen to the same shit they've been listening to since they were 18.

Whenever any of my friends shares a track with me on Facebook or whatever, I'll take the five minutes to listen to it, and even if I don't really like it or it's not my style, I'll shoot them a quick 'thanks' and a few words relevant to the song. Y'know, because most likely they heard that and thought, 'hey, cyc might like this!' and took the time to think of me. So it's really the least I can do in return.

I mean, I find myself struggling sometimes, especially with RL friends. We have some drinks, we smoke a little and I think, 'this seems like the right time, I'll bust out some freshly vetted album' and they all just look at me, slightly uncomfortable and maybe a bit too nice to say what they're thinking, which is invariably, 'dude this shit sucks.' I definitely feel like I put way more thought and effort into music and get a fraction of the courtesy in return that I give to people who listen to the radio and blurt out some shit about how amazing it is.
 
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:) That's funny. I agree.

There's no accounting for taste, and some people only like music they introduce to the group.
Or, they just don't have the same background to appreciate the mood and song you present, right?

So, on the one hand is the feeling of thinking you're intrinsically better than someone else because of knowledge.
Had a Styper T-shirt at a party and spent 45 mins being berated by this hipster twerp about how I didn't know
as much about 'the Sweet brothers' as he did. Ended up just giving him the fucking shirt.
But, still, he was so angry. Over what? A fucking ironic T-shirt. This was years ago.

Also, if you spend hours hunting down obscure goodies, as I do, and, if you share it freely online, all you get
is a boost for your e-rep and the knowledge that you spread the good word. Kinda lame. lol. Also, you may
have just helped some egotistical kid feel superior. Which sucks. Boo hoo. In RL is different.

So, even though I dislike feeling some form of ownership over music
I didn't create, I feel like I should, in fact, be getting some tangible
reward for my efforts, something more than having my new,
obscure, band post ignored, then posted on another forum
by someone I'm likely never to meet in RL.


Then again, it's not like I own the GD music, right?
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Like it even fucking matters, I'm just exploring the topic.
 
The thing that annoys me about music snobs is that most people who are "really into" their music that I've met don't have any connection with the music to begin with. I'm just generalizing here but they think knowing obscure facts like who introduced Paul McCartney to LSD lends creedence to their authority on a subjective matter. I'm not going to run around introducing, or, more accurately, forcing upon everyone I know the music I like and INSISTING it's fucking righteous because I like it and I've heard so much fucking music that I am clearly the man in all regards.

Let's get real here, if having heard the most music makes you a virtuouso then why is our cultural landscape so full of shit?

I happen to live with someone who sounds a lot like you, Engage, and I don't begrudge him his fervent love of the latest experimental metal by Mike Patton, but, unfortunately, a lot of that stuff just doesn't make my head work right and I have run a bunch of what he considers brilliant music through my playlist more than once but for fuck's sakes it's SUBJECTIVE. I'm not saying it's impossible to quantify what makes some tunes truly TERRIBLE, because it surely is [possible], but a lot of music is damn good whether you choose to respect that or isolate yourself from others tastes because you consider yours superior. Different BPM for different folks, yeh?

It especially pisses me off when someone gets all snobby about how much music they've collected and yet clearly lacks any musical sensibilities. Yeah, we all see that guitar in the corner you clearly tried finger-fucking once upon a time and gave up on because you don't have the patience to master it like the idols you'd prostrate yourself to. Tell me more about how <insert "ironical" bandname> is the bee's knees because they dress like that and "don't give a fuck what people think!"

Saying someone "doesn't have the background to appreciate" whatever is definitely up there on the list of most condescending things ever thought. Are you aware music is made up of something called NOISE? No shit, I'm fucking serious. Music is noise, and that shit is fucking everywhere. A kid has enough musical background by his teenage years, presuming he ain't deaf, just listening to random noise. I truly wonder if people who take their music way too fucking seriously realize they are gimping their own musical education by constantly seeking out the latest and greatest music comprised mostly of guitar and drums. There ain't a whole lot of variety in that shit, which is probably why most music these days does suck almighty ass. Regardless, I was about due for some flipping out on this topic and I seriously hope you music snobs out there take this to heart and stop thinking you're Moses parting an ocean to bring the divine music of God to all us poor, stupid, underappreciative hillbilly pilgrims.
 
Solid gif OP.

oh also, people like that aren't worth sharing the amazing music you have. Fuck that haters.
 
I've been accused of taking my music (well, more specifically my obsession with a particular synth pop duo) WAY too seriously. I recently missed a concert I had dreamed of attending for over 20 years, due to the (in)actions of this particular person - who cared much less about making the concert event. I actually got quite depressed about it. I resented him SOOOO much for his role in the tragedy, and every time I looked at my VIP passes I would burst into tears. Instead of being appropriately remorseful, he chastised me for taking it too seriously and told me he was fed up with my be "going on" about it, that it wasn't that big of a deal. So I broke up with him.
 
I take music too seriously, but not in 'aggressive' way. As I don't really care what other people listen to, and I can generally enjoy any kind of music, as long as the atmosphere is right (I've even gone to a few metal concerts in my life). Although sometime I make off-hand remarks about pop artists that some of my friends take personally.
 
personally i can't sit here and bitch about obscure music knowledge because i hold quite a bit of it myself, but i hate when someone dismisses an artist just for being mainstream without knowledge/hearing their music first. for example, lil wayne is widely hated by underground hip hop fans who have never taken the time to listen to his truly great material which is mostly on mixtapes IMO, based on hearing some crappy autotune single he has on the radio.
 
I'm a kind of guy who doesn't need great lyrics or musical talent to enjoy a song. I mean whatever is pleasing to my ears is what I will listen to. Yeah...rich, thoughtful lyrics can affect me greatly, but so can an absolute cheesy mainstream song; just hearing it on an awesome night out can do it for me...because listening to it brings back good memories. So yeah...music snobbery is annoying, because I don't care how fuckin' great you think your tunes are, and I don't care how pathetic you think mine are, what I enjoy is what I fuckin' enjoy and that's just the way it is.
 
Oh, you mean like how Music & DJ's was on Bluelight from circa 2000-2004?
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Heh. Oh memories! I think there's some sort of correlation between the then boom in the club scene and people buying DJ equipment thinking they can DJ. If I remember our gear and newbie discussions were fairly legendary.

BUT, not as bad as some other forums. Tranceaddict, I'm looking at you kiddo. :\
 
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