Music
Some will study music all their lives in the persuit of understanding more about it. Some will study music in pursuit of wealth (in becoming a successful studio related or event co-ordinating worker)
Some will pursuit music itself, ‘life‘ traded in for notes.
Some will simply sit by and listen.
I know people who bost CD and record collections to be proud of.
I know people who lose their bank accounts to ticketmaster/gigsandtours/seetickets in short to the pleasure of seeing live music.
I am fortunate enough to know people who create the music the aformentioned desire.
And I count myself one of the luckiest in being able to create such a thing myself.
Undarstand this, music in whatever form is something to be respected. It is someone’s work, but to what a lot of people descriminate it is someone’s livelyhood. There is an ever growing intollerence for which I do not care for in the slightest. It is fair to assume that one can have an opinion. To state this opinion to other’s is fine, heck to be with others that have the same opinions doesn’t quite make you a suicide cult (congratulations Daiy Mail for failing that theory). But there are a couple of things some have taken too far.
The first is forming an opinion in order to impress or suit certain people, if you’re saying something in order to make these people think you’re a more agreeable person it’s having the opposite effect in the moral sense which is the sense I favour over your face.
The second is taking your opinion and voicing it as if said opinion makes you a better or more individual person. Now I’m taking this beyond the average comment that reads “Oi mate if you don’t like them fair shout but no need to slag them off yeah”. Don’t get me wrong, these people seriously annoy the crap out of me. I’m not targetting all those anti Fall Out Boy/Panic! at the Disco/My Chemical Romance – esque people who at every possible mention of a current band proceed to foreward a torrent of opinionated crap that no one gives a donkeys about. Personally if I’m standing in HMV perusing the latest DVD/Album/promotions from any of the bands that I am into (admittedly it’s a long list) I don’t need you spouting said band-targeted abuse in my direction. Same goes for when I invite you to a gig, if you don’t like the band I’m quite happy to accept “No thank, not really my taste” and move on. An inaporpriate response is “LOL. [Said band]!?” or “LOL, You expect me to get black skinny jeans , eyeliner and cry my way to the gig”. Apart from the fact that abreviations that don’t shorten number of silables you’d use saying tha actual phrase are an useless freak’s dictionary…..and here’s the important part children…..
If I like the band, which by the point we have reached in the so far relatively short conversation is a fact you should have worked out, what I don’t need is your irrelevant dribbled opinion on what makes them a bad band.
It is highly unlikely that the conversation will go like this…
“Hey”
“S’up”
“Up for coming to see ….. Rise Against, just announced a tour, looking to book for Astoria”
“LOLRise Against, ****ing joke, why would you go see them?”
“….You know what, you’re right, what the hell was I thinking, they’d probably just stand there and play songs I’ve already heard or something”
Hold on, let’s backtrack. I feel there’s something I’ve forgotten. Oh OK, now I remember:
If I invite you to see a band, or if I am scouring the reverse of a CD in HMV, if I am checking a myfaceblogbookpress-site of a band or peruesing their website it generally means they are THE band you need to be into. Any former opinions you formed whilst listening to your ignorant aquainteces lies that put a negative light on the band that were spawned in the likely attempt to look cool an dhip to your *at this poitn we should all chorttle* ‘peers‘ are void.
Screw it I’m giving you homework, it’s the only way youll learn: Step by step. When you next come across a new act, try (and I mean try your hardest) to find something to like about the music. I stress THE MUSIC, not the way they dress, the way they talk, what crimes they’ce commited in the past, what clothing ranges they’ve started up.
Oh that’s another point. Something we’ll call the Pete Wentz effect for obvious reasons. An artist creating a clothing line (a successful one) isn’t something to slag off. It’s not even a valid aspect to take as a point of verdict. I’ll save this one for another day. It’s a whole other world of wrong opinions I have an intollerence for.
The key to understanding the above is that you wouldn’t have gotten this far without valueing my opinion facts.
Remember children play safe, brush your teeth (or you’ll end up like me) and never stop believing.
AND F.Y.I (notice ‘I’ saves me three silables) I LIKE SPELLING MISTAKES.
July 16, 2008 at 12:27 am
Your spelling mistakes are sickening.
Regardless, you are missing an obvious point when concerned with attending musical performances by bands that have acquired a fanbase that shares common characteristics (such as a clothing style, or depressive worldview). That is, when present at such performances, one is likely to happen upon a great number of trait-bearing fans.
What I am saying is that you can criticise going to a gig because of the people you’re likely to be swamped by. Hearing a band live is not equivalent to going to a public gig. I’m sure the last thing anyone wants to have to deal with is a room full of weeping, bleeding, prepubescent Panic! at the Disco fans.
July 16, 2008 at 7:29 am
aren’t you pissed off? but yeah I know what you mean. people who change opinion about a band they like just because one of their friends dissed the band has no balls! anywho, if you’re passionate about something, no matter what others say, you’ll pursue your interest.
July 16, 2008 at 7:29 pm
That’s the first and ONLY thing you have to deal with. Surely you prefer it that way….when you can simply lift up the people in front of you, place them behind you and sift your way sleekly to the front?
Unless of course you live under the hilarious impression that you get the best view from anywhere else, or if you’re screwed up enough to bring your girlfriend to a gig (and hence are doomed to stick with her for the entirety of the performance whilst I’m up there being gropped in the face by Jared Leto…I digress). The ONLY reason for being anywhere other than clos eenough to taste the lead singer’s sweat is to be moshing or you may perhaps be let of if suffering from severe dehydration or blood loss….but you’d have to come to me first for approval…and I’m at the front so you’re wasting your time.
What’s wrong with seeing a room full of people clad with identical threads and suspiciously similar hair styles? It’s a bit of youth culture…unless you’re at a Sex Pistols concert…then its more embarassing.
July 16, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Not being able to spell is probably a good reason to drop out of college…
I like the way you believe that an opinion should be create on your own, completely independent of any other people’s views and ideas.
I’d reckon that a lot, most, if not all people form an original opinion with the idea of it being accepted by certain other people. I’d love you to explain the immorality of that…
If it offends you that some people tell you what they think about a band it would probably be better if you didn’t ask them unless you already know that they would be interested. Maybe, another option would be to get over the fact that some people WILL shoot you down because of the music you like.
As for what I tell you about music you should probably consider this. I told you Pendulum were good and it was you who moaned and whinged about them being on the bill for Projekt Revolution. Turns out they weren’t that bad huh?
Maybe it would be wise to try to do as you expect from others? Just an idea.