Chaos Panda Wrote:i don't understand why some people shun mainstream music simply because everyone else likes it and go underground. Either because they're desperately trying to be different or they just can't think logically

good point there...... I'm into mainstream stuff but i just cance stand popular music.... if it's something i liek and othr ppl like it I'm fine but spoon that's on the radio..... just spoon-hop nd dance.... it kills me everytime i have to listen to it

I listen to everything I can. Genres have always been irrelevant to me.

Chaos Panda Wrote:i don't understand why some people shun mainstream music simply because everyone else likes it and go underground. Either because they're desperately trying to be different or they just can't think logically

so f‎‏uckin' true.

Assassinator Wrote:I don't care much about genre personally.

Joomla12 Wrote:No sir...I'm implying that if it's mainstream, you'll have all of these twelve year olds swooning over it. Take Slipknot for example. It's just trend metal. I say if it isn't sold in stores or the majority of the people that you know don't know what it is, is good.

That's retarded logic.

Toast!

Logic is logic...It only varies on different levels of intelligence.

Xitherun Wrote:

Chaos Panda Wrote:i don't understand why some people shun mainstream music simply because everyone else likes it and go underground. Either because they're desperately trying to be different or they just can't think logically

so f‎‏uckin' true.

I say mainstream music sucks because it's all for the sake of making money. You see these douche bag bands that make 3 CDs a year and are million heirs. Their songs become ring tone commercials meant for fudgeing kids...Their faces are plastered all over t-shirts and other crappy merchandise. It's all for fame and propaganda. The songs released don't have any feeling and all start to feel repetitive and start sounding the same.

After making 20 CDs, they quit for 10 years then they to come back but the spoon is even worse.

honestly, who gives a shi‎‏t, if the music is good? It's f‎‏ucking MUSIC. You listen to it, and enjoy it (or not).

Xitherun Wrote:honestly, who gives a shi‎‏t, if the music is good? It's f‎‏ucking MUSIC. You listen to it, and enjoy it (or not).

That's the thing...I usually don't like it except for maybe a few songs.

I think they only reason why genres exist is because it easier that way for "The Man" to put everything in a neat little package (not to sound like a hippy or anything), but I think that because more artists are starting to fuse certain elements from another genre into whatever genre they're doing, it all starts to blend.  You definitely hear more "Rap/Metal" or "Rap/Rock" and "Punk/Funk" nowadays.  Then there's Beck, he's always pushing the envelope and bending genres and acending as an artist, so he's not very genre definable, but "The Man" classifies him as "Folk" or "Alternative" when one of Beck's main influences was the Rap group "Public Enemy".  I think genres come out of an excessive need to categorize things that don't really need to be.  Why can't it just be music and sound different from time to time.  Why can't people stop saying "I'm a Metal Head," or "I'm Punk," and blah, blah, blah.  It just creates more lables because people are starting to define themselves a musical genres, which I think is completely stupid.  It's like wee can't just be people who like certain stuff music anymore, wee have to make it into a complete lifestyle.  What's with that.  Also, I think whether it's underground or mainstream, as long as it sounds good then it's cool.  Well... Different strokes, for different folks I guess.  It all just leads to an interesting conversation about music.