Why do """people""" who >do not play any instruments >do not produce music >do not write songs act like their opinion on music matters?
Like, if you're not a physicist, why the fuck would I listen to your opinion on relativity or some nerd shit like that?
Landon Powell
Because music is a form of entertainment and so the audience is the public. Just like you don't need to be a film director to comment on movies, you're still able to form an opinion. Whether or not their opinions matter is of course subjective though
Tyler Lee
reply to this or brian wilson dies tonight
Nolan Bailey
im not a fag, why should I listen to OP?
Jeremiah Garcia
I do know how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on many instrument so my opinion cannot be invalidated :)
Angel Campbell
assblasted """music listener""" detected
if you're a bad musician you are expected to have a bad opinion
Juan Moore
i slow down and chop up new wave songs in audacity does that count?
Gabriel Nguyen
People are entitled to their opinions. Personally, I like to hear what others think about an album or a song. Even if you don't practice a certain "profession", you still can have a lot of knowledge regarding the "profession".
I know a lot about fashion without being a fashion designer or a model. Therefore I can express my opinion about it.
Jordan Wright
yes
Gavin Morgan
>actually going at it
I took this thread for a drive by, good effort I guess
before you meme me I play the clarinet very well and am learning the bass
Nolan Kelly
A fun drinking game is looking through year end best album lists from prominent sites and taking a shot every time anything that is specifically about music is mentioned.
I mean it's fun if you hate drinking and want to take zero shots.
Nobody's opinion on music 'matters' but music journalism actually requires less understanding of music than sports journalism does about sports, and they mostly just have to describe objective facts about who scored what when. It is a huge joke and if you ever get to do interviews and meet music journalists you will see what a bunch of self-important morons they are whose only real qualifications for the job are a willingness to think their own feelings matter a whole lot (ie: lots of rich only children)
Mason Barnes
I'm a professional composer (I get paid for it), do you want to hear my opinion on anything?
Adrian Brown
God this post is so erotic
Parker Turner
why is all rap music objectively garbage
Andrew Nguyen
Because fundamentally it's closer to poetry than music and it still fails miserably at the former.
John Green
The majority of listeners make their opinion known by choosing what they listen to. So yeah their opinion matters
Oliver Wood
I doubt it would actually be worth anything, but if I met you in person I might pretend to care if you had something worthwhile to contribute, but I'm guessing you're mostly just hollow pretension.
Ayden Edwards
It isn't, and this guy is not me
Asher Robinson
>music criticism doesn't make sense to ME so it's all garbage why can't they talk about objective real things like sports?
I bet you shared that PragerU video about modern art on facebook like 20 times
Ryan Lewis
>Sup Forums user is angry, antisocial and cynical, more at eleven.
Levi Walker
Musicians can have pretty shitty tastes. Some of them have insight, but most of them don't even think that deep about music despite playing it for some reason.
Wyatt Gonzalez
it's because most artists lack any formal education outside of their field and don't learn reasoning skills
Isaac Russell
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Luke Morris
Do you actually agree with OP?
Henry Robinson
Because 'popular' music has moved away from standards of structural elegance and complexity to goals like expression, feelings and vibrations, which aren't really covered by any doctrine. Anyone can describe what he hears and its basic nature, the feelings it evokes in him and the meaning it raises. I'd say the only thing that could make one's opinion of an album more credible than another's is the amount of music he has been exposed to. A very derivative song can sound impressively unique to a listened who simply doesn't know the music it takes influence from, for example.
Isaiah Stewart
No either this is a bait thread or OP is a miserable sod. I'm not lying about being a professional (that is, self-sufficient albeit virtually unknown) composer, but I still prefer to hear what my amateur friends think than educated musicians.
Christian Jenkins
>I still prefer to hear what my amateur friends think than educated musicians. Probably because every educated musician would be able to tell you why your music is terrible.
Jordan Richardson
sjz
Isaac Collins
yes you'd like to hear the amateur opinion because they are more likely to praise you for your work
Tyler Lopez
I value the opinion of those who are'nt musicians. When I write music, I'm not only writing it for other musicians. People like music because it sounds pleasing. You don't have to be a musician to have that experience. >inb4 hurr durr I release abstract field recording noise drone punk autism-core that only real musicians listen to and the sheeple don't understand
Kill yourself you retarded aspie fuck. People like you give musicians a bad name
Xavier Robinson
OP is a basement dwelling failed musician who is shifting the blame of his failed music career from his lack of musical ability to society that could not tolerate his "music"
Jackson Sullivan
nah I actually studied math in university I've just been playing music for a while
Austin Garcia
>Why do """people""" who >>do not act >>do not produce movies >>do not write movie scripts >act like their opinion on movie matters?
Adrian Myers
Only professional chefs and food critics can ctitique food
Jonathan Long
do you even act bro?
OP here, I agree with this statement, nothing lamer than being a """foodie"""
Landon Richardson
Why do "people" who do not know how to develop software act like their opinion on video games matters?
Jace Jones
just because you make shitty bedroom music like carset headrest doesnt mean your opinion matters on anything you fucking waste
Isaiah Hernandez
just a reminder that if you have not procreated, your opinion on life or any things pertaining to any qualities of life is completely irrelevant.
Chase Lee
delete this
Aaron Smith
>math virgin autist confirmed >university And a Eurocuck just fucking kill yourself
Jacob Wood
How shit is your reading comprehension?
My point is that the job of sportswriter is largely just relaying specific empirical information like so-and-so scored x points against such-and-such, and yet even still the expectation on a prospective sportswriter is that they will have more expertise and technical knowledge than the reader. They will be expected to know the history of a given sport and be familiar with the technical and strategic aspects ofnthe game.
This is to contrast with music writers, where there is absolutely no expectation of any basic understanding of any aspect of music besides their own subjective like or dislike of a particular song or album. Read through the year and lists and see how nobody even tries to talk about music. They will talk about the video imagery, they will talk about the sociopolitical impact of what they consider to be the subject matter, and at best they will cherrypick one or two lines of lyrics as citations for their projected interpretation of what the work means.
I would love if music criticism made sense the way a book by a talented musicologist might. Actual discussion of music. I just don't really care to hear really awful amateur cultural theory presented under the guise of legitimate criticism.
Imagine an article on some basketball game failed to discuss the game at all and just described what the uniforms or the mascot represent in today's america. That's what music criticism amounts to these days, people who don't even understand what a 3-pointer is trying to have deep thoughts about what basketball means to them, and a bunch of simpletons following them so they can avoid having to form opinions of their own.
Sportswriters are mostly all hacks but music writers are almost all outright frauds.
Juan Wilson
>ITT: assblasted "music listeners" face the music (pun intended)
Justin Wright
Why do """posters""" who >do not contribute meaningfully >do not produce quality >do not write good posts act like their shitposts on Sup Forums matter?
Like, if you're not Hiro, why the fuck would I listen to your opinion on opinions on average music critics or some autistic shit like that?
Matthew Jenkins
>smug shitposter acting high-and-mighty in a bait thread are you being ironic on purpose?
Benjamin Brooks
For you? Who are you? Some sad bastard online who's mummy forgot to make him his coco-pops this morning. lol
Jaxon Anderson
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Kayden Wilson
why do people who aren't actors opinions on movies matter?