(This is very much out of sequence, but caught my fancy.)<\/p>\n
A newsgroup post from 6\/26\/2008:<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on the nets, I’ve been reading (but not participating in) a discussion where a couple of people are talking about how they despise modern popular music — “modern” in this case meaning everything after 1955 or so.<\/p>\n
What boggles me is their air of superiority — they listen to real<\/i> music, i.e., classical. All this modern stuff is just noise.<\/p>\n
Well, no, it isn’t. You cannot sell people straight-out noise; it’s been tried repeatedly. (Anyone remember what Yoko Ono did before marrying John Lennon?) Obviously, if millions, perhaps billions of people find something enjoyable in popular music, there’s something there to enjoy<\/i>. No, you cannot fool that many people for that long. If you genuinely can’t hear it as anything but noise, it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with the music; it means there’s something wrong with you<\/i>. You are lacking a normal human response.<\/p>\n
This is not something to be proud of. You, whoever you are, are a part of the human race, a member of a social species. If you cannot understand, even intellectually, something that provides billions of your fellow humans with pleasure, this does not make you part of an elite; it makes you defective, an outcast, a failure.<\/p>\n
I would think this was obvious. Apparently it isn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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