Are metal heads just hipsters in black?

[Norris2k]

Psychotic said:

Shadow1980 said:
...so while I liked a lot of mainstream stuff when I was younger I don't like newer mainstream stuff, not because it is mainstream but because I just don't like the way it sounds. I can't stand Kesha, Katy Perry, Fergie-era Black-eyed Peas (they used to be a decent hip-hop group before she joined), Pitbull, LMFAO, and all the other stuff that dominates the Top 40 charts today...

I whole-heartedy believed that and I've been saying that during my metal phase, too.

The question is WHY don't like how today's pop music sounds. What is the underlying mental cause of this? You're the last person who would know. Few try to get to the bottom of this.

I read somwhere that whatever you liked in you teenage age, you mostly stick with it, because you activate some pleasure part of the brain when you listen to it (or something similar). Perhaps because you associate this familiar sound with when you were young (first love, best friends, first LANs, sharing a CD, whatever). Myself, I've never really liked any music without guitar, and it's not by elitism, I don't even think something like "the guitar is better than the didgeridoo and piano", that's just my feeling, I feel good with the sound of a guitar. On the contrary, I can like both Motorhead and Muse which are quite different, in term of style, period and voice... but have a guitar ! And that's not just for guitar, as different as they get, I tend to like music from the 70's. In fact, 3 of my favorite groups started exactly in 75 : Iron Maiden, Motorhead and the Sex Pistols. Sound of the 75 ? I can't even define it. Anyway, I live far away from my country... and I can tell you, I feel a similar relieve listening to my mother tongue... or listening to Rock.

Also, i feel that the music is less and less authentic, have less and less soul... nowadays it's just a product, and you feel it, based on the standard you set at the time where you started listening to music. I mean nowadays, someone produce the clip, someone else the text, music, you assemblate that with good looking people, put some money on the table and that's it. I mean the Beatles, Hendrix, Elvis Presley, it was mainstream, it sold a lot, but there is something pure in it. So, even if I listen to metal, I always felt it was not as authentic as the punk I grew up with. It's not elitism, I don't want to prove anything, but that's a feeling we get, perhaps.

As for the OP's question, I don't think music taste can relate to hipsters, it's something less wide, it's about music, but it's deeper, you can't just like other music out of openness.