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Originally Posted by ni'k
you are not explicity stating it so im not directing it at you but i hate this argument that everyone constantly makes "why not just enjoy it its just for enjoyment if you dont enjoy it you're trying to make me think and not enjoy" i hate music being reduced to this.
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I'm really enjoying your posts of late ni'k. I think there's a certain irony to people saying they don't like music journalism on a message board which has as its central nexus discussion about music.
I think it's a very conservative, antiquated aesthetics that wants to see music as a rarefied craft hermetically sealed off from external influences; often, there's so little going on in rock music that it's impossible to talk about anything
but external influences. Writing like the above, while not entirely too my taste, definitely contributes more to our understanding (even if entirely negatively) than a vapid assertion of personal affection like 'oh, I just love it because it's good'. That's what 9-year-olds do.