<p>Indulge my opinions onto others?
Sorry, I don’t compute.
And fine, ascribe my statements as the products of an opinionated mind, I can’t dispute that. But opinions are not all equal. You can’t just claim everything is relative, for not only does that undo philosophy as a whole, but it also hinders and outright halts progress. There are people who believe that the moon landing was staged and that their religion gives them the right to murder in its name. Those are also opinions, but their validity is questionable. Now, I’m not claiming that Owl City is commensurate to that magnitude of idiocy, but if you’re going to rip off the Postal Service, I’m going to hold you to a higher standard than if you’re typical pop garbage like Katy Perry and the like.</p>
<p>And I’m not even saying that it’s not okay to listen to music you like, I just feel like I should be able to mouth off on it, as this is a discussion board, after all. I’m pretty sure I have a song from each of the following artists - Bloodhound Gang, Dirty Vegas, The Panic Channel, Seether, Shwayze, Paul Oakenfold, and Audio Bullys.
I realize each song is rubbish, yet I haven’t deleted them. Now if you were to call me out on this, I wouldn’t try to shut you up and say music is relative, but I’d rather try to engage in discourse, as this is, I repeat, a discussion board.</p>
<p>He did not PURPOSELY rip off the Postal Service. Stop saying that. It might SOUND that way, but it’s not like he’s some plagiarizing *******–I just read an interview with him; he wrote all the songs in his parents’ bedrooms and only started listening to Postal Service because of the comparisons. That being said, this has made me look up Postal Service, and they are better. I agree, music isn’t completely subjective…What would be the point of people who review music? or movies? or literature? There’s a reason something considered superior usually…I’m tired of this song, with 75% of the reason being this thread.</p>
<p>I think good music is any music that I like. And that means everything from Taylor Swift to Owl City (and yes, The Postal Service) to Nicholas Hooper to Disturbed to Kenny Wayne Shephard. You can call “Farewell to Arms” a work of art by some “objective” means but I still think it sucks.</p>
<p>Haha! Ears, relax. I can almost see you hyperventilating! First, can things really be judged subjectively but also have definitive values attached to them. I mean, would it make sense to shop on iTunes by scrolling through “good” and “bad” albums?</p>
<p>Quit trying to pass your opinions off as the foundation of intellectual interpretation. It is, in fact, elitist to tell everyone that you have the formula for what will be referred to as good music. Not only that, you’re calling people “stupid” on a forum that is, otherwise, fun. Take a step back. I’m afraid you’ll see it looks a little like this:</p>
<p>lol, haha im not uptight at all, but looking at that post it seems that way. and i didn’t call anyone stupid, i just don’t like the idea that there can’t be “good” music. But yea I guess it’s just what you like…people have different tastes and arguing about musical tastes never really gets anywhere…sooooooooooooooo enjoy what you want. cool.</p>