| Norris2k said: 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. |
So... if I understand it correctly... you admit that there's nothing special about "hard" music outside your (their, my) head, that it's a mix of nostalgia value and "feel"?
I don't think EVERY metal head is exactly what I described, but metal heads emit that vibe as a group. I know because I used to be one of them. And when I got my sh*t together, I suddenly saw my (former) friends in a different light. And I know that this is more real than what I thought before, because impartial people seem to agree mostly.
Also, it's not elitism to say "I like this". It is elitism to point at something you like and saying it's somehow more "pure", more "athentic", more... just that liking it means you are better than someone who doesn't, even though there is no indication that it might be true except your own feeling.
Metal and punk are also just a product and they always were. It was and to some extent still in a niche product, but a product nonetheless.
