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Originally Posted by challenge_everything
One of the greatest philosophers of the last 200 years is an "unexplained academic reference"?
I'm not saying that I'm the ultimate authority on what music has artistic merit, but I still fail to see how there is any correlation between popularity and quality. Most people hear nothing other than what they are force-fed on commercial radio, maybe 2% of the entire music spectrum. So yes, most people have no valid opinion on what constitutes artistically meritorious music.
Look at metal for example. What are the most commercially successful (ie popular) metal bands? Slipknot, Cradle of Filth, crappy metalcore bands, Pantera, Trivium, CoB, etc etc. In no way are they even close to being the best metal bands, let alone moderately good ones.
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I can dig it except that I refuse to rate myself as better than people on an objective scale. Maybe there are brainless pop fans out there, but Perhaps some pop content could be cut out from the picture, but most of the rest bands are propelled by serious music listeners. Do you agree that, even if they are only 2%, the opinions of the intelligent music listeners are equal to each others?
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Originally Posted by NinjaGeek
Gonna fall of deaf ears, he likes a lot of popular metal bands.
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Yeah, nobody on this board listens to Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Opeth...